The relationship between the great
media pragmatist (Rupert Murdoch) and the great political pragmatist (Hillary
Clinton) is getting sweeter all the time, according to this story in The New York Times.

“The nexus of politics and media
has a history of creating the oddest bedfellows,” says the Times. “Mr
Murdoch, although seen as a political reactionary, is a pragmatist who forms and
dissolves alliances as events dictate. And Mrs Clinton, who improbably plopped
herself into Republican prayer breakfasts after arriving in the Senate, has a
history of disarming her political opponents through a combination of charm and
industriousness.”

The paper quotes former Clinton White House political
consultant James Carville, saying that Fox News and Murdoch’s New York
Post “need Hillary to run for Senate and president” because she’s the only
politician in America who “gets people to watch television or buy a
newspaper … no-one else comes close.”

“For the time
being,” says the Times, “both franchises have sized each other up and
evidently decided that their respective global ambitions require a coalition of
the willing.”