Rupert Murdoch
In this week’s ABR Podcast, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Green reviews Walter Marsh’s illuminating biography of the young Rupert Murdoch. Green explains that there is every reason ‘to get to the bottom of Rupert Murdoch’ given the media mogul’s far-reaching influence. Listen to Jonathan Green with ‘ONE MAN CONTROL: An enthralling study of the young Rupert Murdoch’, published in the August issue of ABR.
... (read more)Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
Media Monsters: The transformation of Australia’s newspaper empires by Sally Young
Hack Attack by Nick Davies & Beyond Contempt by Peter Jukes
Murdoch’s Pirates: Before the Phone Hacking, There Was Rupert’s Pay-TV Skullduggery by Neil Chenoweth
Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court by Bruce Guthrie
The History of The Times: Volume vii: the Murdoch years by Graham Stewart
La Trobe University Essay ‘Rupert Murdoch and the Culture War’ by David McKnight
Rupert Murdoch founded The Australian in 1964 as a bold statement or his belief that this country needed a quality national daily newspaper. His action was based on a nation-building vision that he shared with the leader or the Country Party, John McEwen, who deeply influenced him at that time.
For twenty years, The Australian lost money, a strange anomaly in the life of its ruthlessly commercial owner. In a 1994 address to the free-market thinktank, the Centre for Independent Studies, Murdoch mentioned these losses but argued that some things were more important than short-term profits – ideas in society. He went on to quote John Maynard Keynes’s famous lines about the significance of political and philosophical ideas to men who regarded themselves as supremely practical. In the media business, ‘we are all ruled by ideas’, Murdoch added.
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