With Rupert Murdoch scheduled to visit next month to celebrate The Australian’s 60th birthday, you can understand the masthead’s wish to flatter the 93-year-old newlywed. But the daily coverage of the triumph of publishing reached incredible heights with claims of the young Rupert’s “magic” and his ability to pull off “miracles”.
“‘We thought he was magic’: Birth of a paper like no other”, was the headline on a piece about Murdoch setting up the national broadsheet in 1964.
