Robert Thomson   SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to the media’s view on real estate, there are few who are able to see the world through such a broad lens at Robert Thomson, chief executive at News Corp. The journalist-turned-exec sat down with Brad Inman to discuss how world politics can and are affecting real estate. Thomson, nay Robert Dell’Oro Thomson, has been in the media world since 1983. Four years after being hired by the The Sydney Morning Herald in his homeland Australia, Thomson was covering Peking University student protests in Beijing, China. In the January 1, 1987, issue he explained how the protests illustrate two things about the students: “One is the nascent freedom young people feel after a period of repressed energies and aspirations. The other is the i…