The Man Who Owns the News
The new inside story of the Murdoch regime and its purchase of the Wall Street Journal is poorly written but full of insights into what makes multi-generational plutocrats tick. This includes not only the Murdoch organization which bought the paper, but the Bancrofts who sold it after a hundred years of hands-off ownership.
The subtitle is "Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch". Michael Wolff had unprecedented access to the man himself as well as family and associates. It's a pity he writes like a high school newspaper gossip columnist and tries to be cute at every turn. The stream of zen psychobabble is relentless. This 400 page book should have been half that.
The subtitle is "Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch". Michael Wolff had unprecedented access to the man himself as well as family and associates. It's a pity he writes like a high school newspaper gossip columnist and tries to be cute at every turn. The stream of zen psychobabble is relentless. This 400 page book should have been half that.
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