newspaperman

“I talked to the newspaperman later and said, ‘You are a good American, aren’t you — you love your country?’”

Looking back at those papers isn’t just the nostalgia of an old newspaperman.

Roth was a “red diaper baby,” the Jewish son of communists; his father was newspaperman and university teacher and his mother was an executive at United Artists.

A newspaperman at heart, Murdoch sensed by the 1980s that the media was changing and that pay television would be a central plank of the future.

His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia's most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News.