During the 2004 presidential campaign , meanwhile , I found myself , as the result of some idle cocktail party chatter , in a room of determined leftwing types considering how to counter yet another part of News Corp. We would attack the pro-Bush Fox News with a campaign to demonise Murdoch , who was not only the very personification of Big Media but a thrice-married foreigner with an Australian accent so thick that no one in America 's foreigner-hating heartland would ever mistake him for anything else .