Students of Rupert Murdoch may wonder why an 88-year-old multi-billionaire would devote his last years to destabilizing democracy, promoting division and thwarting efforts to slow climate change.

“There is no why,” newspaper editor Larry Lamb (Jonny Lee Miller) says early in James Graham’s absorbing Ink, as part of a discussion with the young Murdoch about journalism’s five “W’s.”  (Who, What, Where and When are the others.)    “Sometimes shit just happens.”

Ever-so-timely although ripped from headlines a half-century old, Ink  chronicles The Sun‘s first year under Murdoch control, 1969-70.Continue Reading