In Australia in 1975 Murdoch’s newspaper supported the Governor-General's strange dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, by exercise of a royal prerogative last used by King William IV of England in 1834. Then in England Murdoch used The Times to help elect Margaret Thatcher, who in turn passed legislation enabling Murdoch to crush the powerful trades unions of Fleet Street. In America, Murdoch’s Fox News, New York Post, and Weekly Standard underwrote the meteoric rise of the neocons in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), whose Chairman was William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard. [2]...