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BACK in January, I wrote a piece for the Morning Star arguing that Michael Gove’s bum-licky interview with newly elected US President Donald Trump was a gift from Murdoch, who wants to get in with the Donald.
I don’t write the headlines for my articles — in the newspaper world wonderful people known as subeditors or editors write headlines.
Their headlines are often the best bit, boiling down my ramblings into a punchy sentence.
For that story, the headline was the effective, if slightly yucky: “Murdoch sends Gove to stroke Trump.”
At the time, many other journalists literally didn’t mention Rupert Murdoch when discussing the Gove-Trump interview.
Because Gove is a journalist, other journalists give him an easy ride.
And, I guess, none of us like to admit how much we are influenced by our publishers.
But as readers of this column know, I think Gove can be best understood as an agent for Murdoch.
He has always worked for him and really owes his political career to Murdoch, as well as a £150,000 per year salary he currently gets.
Now the Financial Times has backed up the point that Gove went to Trump as a present from Murdoch.
They have revealed that Murdoch actually secretly sat in on the entire interview between Gove and Trump.
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