He then moves to Radio 4's Today programme while keeping one eye on GMTV and the rolling news programmes.
Over the last week or two, this must have been a hell of a way to start every day.
David Cameron, on the other hand, is probably too busy making smoothies for the family and pumping up his bike tyres for any such diversions. But if he has caught any news, he'll be the happier.
At the height of New Labour's pomp, Tony Blair's friends put it around that rumours implying that he did what Rupert Murdoch wanted simply weren't true.
Murdoch wasn't stupid, they said, he looked at which way the wind was blowing and got his papers to support the party with the wind behind it.
So it was Tony leading Rupert, not the other way round.
It's true that media owners try to stay in with the government but it's equally true that when the government in power hits stormy waters, the power of the media to make or break it increases exponentially.
Murdoch told a House of Lords committee visiting New York last week that he instructed his tabloids (The Sun and the News of the World) on the political line to take but left The Times and the Sunday Times to their own devices (although presumably the editors read the tabloids too).
The reason he left the posh papers to it? That was his agreement with the then Tory government when it allowed him to take over The Times.
Rupert didn't share his thinking about Brown and Cameron with the committee, although he did surprise them by seeking them out in person. So was Rupert making more than the obvious point?
Almost certainly he was saying that it was time Brown got a grip, otherwise his papers would switch horses.
At the same time, Associated Newspapers was awash with rumours that editor-in-chief and Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre was about to stand down as Daily editor.
Dacre would stay on as editor-in-chief (and possibly become deputy chairman of the group) but would give himself time to do some other pre-retirement things (like investigating the government's 30-year rules on official papers for Gordon Brown).
Dacre seems to like Brown (as does Murdoch) but he must see the way the wind is blowing too and maybe he hasn't the appetite to put the boot in on a daily basis and support the youthful Cameron.
Maybe.
As for Cameron, he still has his problems, not least with the number of idiots in his party. Over the weekend Tory councillor and parliamentary candidate Richard Willis praised white supremacist and former Rhodesian PM Ian Smith (who died last week) on a website.
This is just the sort of thing to lift punch-drunk Labour MPs off the ropes to take a swing at a nice easy target. And remind voters that, although they may like Cameron, there are still a lot of Tories they don't like out there.
It will have cheered up Gordon Brown no end.
But Brown can't hope to win an election if News International, Associated and the Telegraph group line up against him.
Especially as the Guardian and the Independent are likely to go in for some heavy petting with Nick Clegg if he wins the Liberal leadership -- and makes Vince Cable, the stand-in leader who's playing a blinder, his deputy.
As well as worrying about these, he's got the newly emboldened BBC (which blames him for "cutting" the licence fee, in their eyes) savaging his ministers on 'Today' and 'Newsnight' (when they turn up) and political editor Nick Robinson oozing scepticism about anything the government might say.
It's a formidable combination of the more-than-willing and it's going to take a huge effort and a lot of luck on Brown's part to turn it round.
In the meantime Dave Cameron is keeping his head down, apart from when he's required to perform at Prime Minister's Questions.
Good tactics. If only his wannabe MPs would do the same.
Politics of the media is a regular series of opinion pieces for Brand Republic about the way media shapes politics and vice-versa. Stephen Foster is a partner at The Editorial Partnership and can be contacted at:steve-edco@blueyonder.co.uk.