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Margaret Sullivan on the the billionaire father and son buying up the US media

Speaking at a press conference last month, the US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, criticised CNN’s ‘fake news’ coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran.

‘The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,’ he told the room of journalists.

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