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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's fixer, Joel Klein

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's fixer, Joel Klein

Murdoch's fixer, Joel Klein

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From Politico.com
At first glance, it may seem odd for Klein, a lifelong Democrat who worked in Washington in the Clinton White House counsel’s office and in New York as the independent mayor Michael Bloomberg’s schools chancellor, to be the chief defender of the owner of the U.S.’s most powerful conservative media outlets.

More recently, before Murdoch hired Klein, the two men