26 Apr 2023

Midweek Mediawatch - big bills for media billionaires

From Mediawatch, 10:45 pm on 26 April 2023

Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights.

Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about a very bad week for two billionaire media barons - Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch - burning up credibility and cash in court, online and in space; and more critics copping flak for Succession spoilers.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 28, 2019 Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC. - Fox News star host Tucker Carlson is leaving the influential TV network, it was announced April 24, 2023, in a shock move days after the conservative outlet reached a $787.5 million settlement over a damaging defamation case. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

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