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A Patriot and a Blunder

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April 1981, no. 29

In Search of Keith Murdoch by Desmond Zwar

Macmillan, $17.95, 130 pp

A Patriot and a Blunder

by
April 1981, no. 29

The blurb is right enough: Sir Keith Murdoch probably was Australia’s greatest newspaperman. Quite unusually for a press tycoon, he had been a very good journalist and a brilliant editor. In his time the Melbourne evening Herald and Sun News-Pictorial were, technically, remarkable innovatory newspapers.

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