The scene is early February 2017 and I’m chatting with Rupert Murdoch and Peter Thiel at a reception for chess grandmaster cum anti-Putinist, Garry Kasparov, at New York City’s hoary University Club. “Well,” he says in the sort of earnest way he has, “we are in a bull market for news.” Thiel was right, (leaving aside that Thiel is the man who shut down Gawker, and nevermind the polarization and carnage Murdoch has inflicted on our media and.