Generations of politicians have been willing to fly thousands of kilometres for an audience with Rupert Murdoch. But last week it was Murdoch, 93, who travelled to Milwaukee to witness Donald Trump accept the Republican Party’s nomination for president, watching from a box in the arena.
Murdoch watchers say the media baron had not been to a US political convention in decades, if ever. Some saw it as a conciliatory gesture towards Trump – a man Murdoch has known for decades but never viewed as the best presidential material.
