August 1915, reporter Keith Murdoch endures arrest and further potential consequences to report on the abuses of troops by military commanders. He was kept safe from government persecution by the support of a powerful British press baron. He was later knighted for his efforts.

In 1959 Rohan Rivett, Rupert Murdoch’s mentor(son of now deceased Sir Keith Murdoch) and the Editor in Chief of Murdoch’s newspaper at the time, spearheaded a story which embarrassed the Australian government but saved an innocent aborigine’s life. The government brought several sedition charges against Rivett and the newspaper which they were cleared of except for one which lingered for months until it was withdrawn by the government. Shortly thereafter, in spite of the fact that circulation and profits were much higher since Rivett took over the paper, Rivett was fired by Rupert Murdoch. Thereafter, according to contemporary observers, the government also began to receive more favorable press from Murdoch’s papers. The child learned his place was to be found in the dichotomous role of slave/master to government.

So, the father speaks out against a tyranny and is protected by a powerful press baron.
The child becomes a media baron and persecutes those who challenge tyranny.
The child would seem to have cowered into yellow journalism where the father stood firm in objectivity.

One can’t help but wonder if he’s a bit like Kissinger, (who as a child fled the terror of the Nazi’s and went on to support atrocious governments and their actions) and twisted himself into what twisted him. The child has become a distorter, distracter, and denouncer of truth in black and white. The child who for months and years has slung mud, now sing’s the praises of Obama. How powerful the archetype of “your father comes home” is to a child.