The Wrap: “He’s, on one level, an incredibly compelling figure, one of the most influential figures of the 20th and early 21st centuries,” Sherman said. But, the author caveats, “Rupert’s ability to rationalize and compartmentalize ethical and moral failings for the sake of profit, I think, is one of the most destructive things that has happened to politics around the world.”
It is an appropriate time to assess Murdoch’s legacy, as Trump’s second administration barrels through constitutional norms and takes aim at press freedoms. It was Murdoch, after all, who helped empower him…