Could Murdoch bring himself to do it?

He’d hate the idea of being bested by people and institutions he sees as his liberal enemies, such as the Guardian and the New York Times. But he prides himself on being able to rise above personal feelings. Plus, he’s always had a love-hate relationship with Britain. Even back when I used to work for his newspapers, he sometimes complained that the Brits didn’t appreciate all he’d done for their country—all the money and time he’d invested there; all the hatred he’d incurred for breaking the Luddite print unions; all the effort he’d expended in attacking the stultifying British class system. “Sometimes, I don’t know why I bother,” I recall him saying once, seemingly only partly in jest.