Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 161039089X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation.Murdoch’s defenders questioned how much he could have known about the bribery and phone hacking undertaken by his journalists in London. There were moments when the global news chief panicked. The company’s culture was deeply rooted in an Australian buccaneering spirit, a brawling British populism, and an outsized American libertarian sensibilityat least when it suited Murdoch’s interests.David Fol
Folkenflik, the media correspondent for NPR, has encountered Murdoch’s world in that capacity and, formerly, when he was with the Baltimore Sun, and he has developed the contacts and style that make this reportage fascinating and credible. He describes the internecine wars, often familial, within an organization that, however much it claims to encourage autonomy, is consistently an extension of the man at its head, the Australian “buccaneer,” Murdoch. From Booklist One cannot, even facetiously, describe this account of Rupert Murdoch’s life and the most influential media empire in the history of the English-speaking world as “fair and balanced.“ It is neither. But it is entertaining and informative, sometimes dauntingly so (as in the organizational details), though tilting more than slightly from that objective center that Murdoch’s American broadcast news outlet, Fox, characterizes itself as being. --Mark Levine . In covering the variety of
Extraordinarily fine piece of work Graf von Foto This is a very engrossing narrative that is informative, sobering, and chilling. The book reflects the author's own reporting over many years on the aggressive Murdoch news/entertainment empire as well as research done specifically for the book. It has an extensive bibliography and has meticulously annotated page notes documenting sources that occupy about a fourth of the entire book. There is also a d. Rupert Murdoch - Enemy of Democracy and Civilisation A valuable accounting of Rupert Murdoch's career of subverting the foundations of democracy and civilisation. The book shows how powerless the institutions of democracies are to resist the corrupting influence of power-mad media tycoons like Murdoch. Where are the checks and balances against such power? What is to prevent another power-mad media tycoon from taking over where Murdoch left off and finish. Excellent book This is a very insightful book as to what news stations do to promote their own agenda. They will stop at nothing to get their version of the news out to the peopleI highly recommend this book!!!!