Biographies of Rupert Murdoch describe his past as beginning with the inheritance of wealth as a young Australian. His father built up a newspaper business that Murdoch then expanded after a brief flirtation with leftist ideas in college. His orientation in Australia was rather broadsided with support for labor and then conservatives. He then began international investing and acquired newspapers and other media outlets in England.
He then switched his support in the next few years back to labor eventually becoming a frequent visitor of Blair's 10 Downing Street. This, perhaps, can be seen as part of the construction of "New Labor." Murdoch has since remarried and moved to the Peoples Republic of China, Communist China, that is. His creature in America, Fox News has, since its inception, been a divisive, rabble-rousing outlet of lies, misinformation and mudslinging. If one were to view this information through the lens of Fox News, the picture could be slanted to make Murdock out as dedicated to destroy America to fulfill his youthful communist ideals using Fox News as his 5th Column.
He is at home in the ideological center of his adolescent dreams watching the capitalist West be torn apart by economic excesses, monopoly, terrorism that he promotes via his nihilistic, racist programing, and the political chaos he fans.
His "flirtation" with socialism has been reported to have been quite significant with a celebration of Lenin during his time at Oxford and he was elected head of the Oxford Labor debating club by its admiring Marxists.
Later when he returned to England as a media investor, he first supported labor, perhaps from his distain of the upper class and his own personal dislike based on the abuse of Australian soldiers in WWI that his father had uncovered, later he switched to the Conservative Party with Thatcher's election.
Should we take this analogy a little further we could argue that anyone who works for Fox News must be a traitor or a communist dupe. Perhaps, Fox News should be renamed, Trud or Pravda. Image if you might, a scenario where the script is written like that of the Manchurian Candidate only the entire edifice of the "conservative," rightwing, teabag movement is organized by a communist theorist in the guise of a conservative businessman. He could hardly be described as "conservative" in behavior or holding "family values" as he is on his 5th marriage (does not understand what "to death do you part" means) and his tabloids spew smut in every issue. He has played on and profited from pornography and the degrading sex stories his publications are known for.
The encouragement Fox News gives to rightwing religious people to carry guns to rallies, to direct fanatic rightwing groups to plan murders and insurrection seem to fit quite well within the above theoretical view.
The scenario I have presented is not far from reality, what is unclear are the motives behind Murdock's acts. One might assess the situation differently, as Murdoch seems to be an equal ideology dictatorship supporter. He has no compunction in doing business or locating assets or his businesses in countries run by repressive regimes, from China to Cuba, he is there. But is he just practical or unethical, or is he interested in destroying freedom and liberty by any means necessary? Whether we call Murdoch a communist or a capitalist the results of his behavior are clear, he is opposed to democracy, to open society and to moral society. The wreckage his power is capable of creating is becoming clear and can only be stopped by a return to the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting and a vigorous international investigation of his tax frauds. He has made a career of hiding income and illegal investments from individual countries, this only encourages others to do so to the detriment of civil society everywhere.
People can access some of the information about Murdoch from Neil Chenweth's 2001 biography of Murdoch, "Rupert Murdoch, the untold story of the world's greatest media wizard," Random House, or William Shawcross's 1997 "Murdoch: the making of a media empire, " Simon and Schuster, or Bruce Page's "The Murdoch Archipelago, Simon and Schuster, 2003. For those satisfied with a general outline see his entry under wikipedia or the entry at Answers.com.