{"id":6939,"date":"2021-01-06T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=265789"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:39:58","slug":"threats-and-seductions-john-menadue-on-rupert-murdochs-handling-of-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/06\/threats-and-seductions-john-menadue-on-rupert-murdochs-handling-of-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats and Seductions: John Menadue on Rupert Murdoch\u2019s handling of politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"862\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lachlan-and-Rupert-Murdoch.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lachlan-and-Rupert-Murdoch.jpg 862w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lachlan-and-Rupert-Murdoch-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 862px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Rupert Murdoch repeatedly claims, falsely, that he has never asked a prime minister for anything. Yet his whole business career in three countries has been founded on threatening or seducing politicians, writes John Menadue.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/foxtel-and-rupert-murdochs-power\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Murdoch repeatedly claims, falsely, that he has never asked a prime minister for anything. Yet his whole business career in three countries has been founded on threatening or seducing politicians, writes John Menadue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}