How Rupert Murdoch Drifted Right

Today is Fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 80th birthday–whoopee!–and in celebration The Hollywood Reporter compiled a rather obsequious collection of well-wishes from various members of the media and Hollywood elite. NASCAR prez Paul Brooks goes so far as to thank Murdoch’s parents for getting it on. That said, sandwiched in the middle of the dullery was this tale from Gregory Clark–Australia’s current ambassador to Japan, who worked as a young journalist for Murdoch’s The Australian in 1969–detailing Murdoch’s political shift to the right.