Shafer: Murdoch’s a political opportunist, not a conservative

“On the Media”
“If you take a look and see who he supported in the most recent Australian election, it was not the conservative. It was the liberal,” says Jack Shafer. “This is a mistake people make all the time about Rupert Murdoch, the idea that he is some sort of conservative ideologue who has come to the United States to, I don’t know, guarantee the Reagan restoration, when all he really is, is a political pragmatist.” || More “OTM” audio and transcripts.