By Michael Wolff
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy deciding to buy the media shops that generate the headlines. His information Corp. holdings—from the long island Post, Fox information, and so much lately The Wall highway Journal, to call only a few—are mammoth, and his energy is unequalled. So what makes a guy like this tick? Michael Wolff provides us the definitive resolution in The guy Who Owns the News.
With extraordinary entry to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his affiliates and kinfolk, Wolff chronicles the astounding progress of Murdoch's $70 billion media country. In intimate element, he probes the Murdoch relations dynasty, from the battles that experience threatened to break it to the reconciliations that appear to just make it better. Drawing upon countless numbers of hours of interviews, he deals debts of the Dow Jones takeover in addition to performs for Yahoo! and Newsday as they’ve by no means been printed before.
Written within the impossible to resist stye that simply an award-winning columnist for Vanity Fair can convey, The guy Who Owns the News bargains an particular glimpse right into a guy who wields notable energy and impact within the media on a world scale—and whose relatives is being groomed to hold his legacy into the future.
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So that’s how we do this job,” I said—mordantly, I hoped. Alter was not to be dissuaded. “You’ve got to ask yourself, is it good for the country or bad for the country? ” Tina Brown, who like Murdoch had achieved media renown in New York by way of London’s Fleet Street, offered me the unsolicited counsel to avoid certain seduction, advising that my job was to educate readers about Murdoch’s “cynical amorality” (a journalistic sin she is often said to be no stranger to herself). When the former Murdoch executive Judith Regan—as much an avatar of Murdoch methods and values as anyone, and, to boot, quite a nut—sued News Corp.
For the past twenty years, he’s been focused almost solely on newspapers. He perhaps knows as much about the various aspects of putting out a newspaper—paper, printing, distribution, advertising, reporting, editing, headline writing, promotion—as anyone in the world. When he hasn’t been working at one of his papers—eight in Australia, as much as two thousand miles apart; two more, twenty-five hours away, in London—he’s been traveling between them. It’s a kind of monomania that, from an early age, fascinates and disturbs other people.
He trails off before finishing sentences; he speaks in what is frequently just a low mumble; his Australian accent is still thick and his Australianisms often opaque; he sometimes dips into an alarming reverie in which he is either carefully weighing his words or napping. He’s not good at explaining himself and gets annoyed and frustrated when he’s asked to do so. He rarely has patience or interest in talking about the past, and he has a tenuous grasp on dates, to the point of sometimes transposing decades; he has little capacity or even language for talking about his own motivations and character.