[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: "Murdoch's World"
- From: Marilyn Beasley <mmbeagle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 22:12:42 -0400
305 pages.
Long Synopsis: Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the
English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in
media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so
singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of journalism. In a
stretch spanning six decades, he built News Corp from a small paper in
Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire capable of challenging national
broadcasters, rolling governments, and swatting aside commercialrivals. 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. But to an
exceptional degree, News Corp was an institution cast in the image of a single
man. The company's culture was deeply rooted in an Australian buccaneering
spirit, a brawling British populism, and an outsized American libertarian
sensibility-at least when it suited Murdoch's interests. David Folkenflik, the
media correspondent for NPR News, explains how the man behind Britain's
take-no-prisoners tabloids, who reinvigorated Roger Ailes by backing his vision
for Fox News, who gave a new swagger to the New York Post and a new style to
the Wall Street Journal, survived the scandals-and the true cost of this
survival. He summarily ended his marriage, alienated much of his family, and
split his corporation asunder to protect the source of his vast wealth (on the
one side), and the source of his identity (on the other). There were moments
when the global news chief panicked. But as long as Rupert Murdoch remains the
person at the top, Murdoch's World will be making news.
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