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In tonight’s jam-packed edition, Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump have always had a complicated relationship, but somehow the pair continues to find a use for each other. We peel back the curtain on just what has been going on behind the scenes. 

Also tonight, what happened when a prominent Puck writer told his bosses that his son now worked for one of the world’s biggest media companies, which the journalist regularly covers.

Plus, The Information stands accused of copying popular tech show TBPN – we ask one of the cohosts for his response about TITV and what happened when Conde Nast tried to infiltrate Russia. 

Finally, tonight, Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie is back with ‘Hamish’s Hot Sauce’ – his weekly thoughts on the media. Tonight, his take on reports of sales talks between The Free Press and Skydance.

Mentioned tonight: Bari Weiss, David Ellison, David Zaslav, Jon Kelly, Matt Belloni, William D. Cohan, Dylan Byers, Marc Metrick, Jessica Lessin, Mark Zuckerberg, John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Akash Pasricha, Natasha Mascarenhas, Brit Hume, Maria Bartiromo, Will Cain, Lara Trump, Alexis McAdams, Josh Kosman, Keith Poole, Karoline Leavitt, Emma Tucker, Jonathan Newhouse, Tyler Denk, Anna Wintour, Pat McAfee, David Enrich, Tom Clare and Libby Locke. 

(Exclusive.) Rupert Murdoch knows a thing or two about how to evade the cameras. As the owner of some of the world’s biggest tabloids, including The Sun and The New York Post, the media mogul can spot a long lens a mile off. 

So it’s no surprise that the snappers at Sun Valley failed to photograph Murdoch, who flew in from L.A., nor his son Lachlan, who jetted into Idaho last week from Croatia. 

It’s impressive that the 94-year-old can still manage a trip to the billionaire's summer camp, where Barry Diller, Mike Bloomberg, Robert Thomson, Josh and Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump were all spotted last week.

But it’s Murdoch’s “tortured relationship” with Ivanka’s father, President Donald Trump, that continues to endlessly fascinate those in both Trump and Murdoch’s orbit. Speaking with Breaker, people who know both men revealed that ….