The New Yorker's John Cassidy can't decide whether FNC poohbah Rupert Murdoch is a conservative who has supported Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and John McCain, or a moderate-liberal who has supported Ed Koch in the past and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the present, and also has helped bankroll Bill Clinton's anti-global warming initiative. Or is Murdoch simply a complicated figure? With different perspectives on different topics?
The best answer to those questions comes from Murdoch confidant Irwin Stelzer, who tells Cassidy, "People say, 'Is Rupert going to the left? Is he going to the right?' That’s the wrong way of looking at it. He’s going in a direction where the conversation is most interesting."
