The Man Who Owns The News

Michael Wolff

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Vintage
03 August 2009

Biography; Biography: business & industry; Media, information & communication industries

If Rupert Murdoch isn't making headlines, he's busy buying the media outlets that generate them.

If Rupert Murdoch isn't making headlines, he's busy buying the media outlets that generate them.

Murdoch's News Corp holdings - from The New York Post, Fox News, The Australian, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few - are vast , and his power is unrivalled. So what makes a man like this tick?

Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in The Man Who Owns The News.

With unprecedented access to Murdoch himself, his associates, and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of the $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as they've never been revealed before.

But Murdoch is more than a predatory and merciless deal-maker. His company does not only generate dizzying profits and growth rates. His company generates the information that forms our understanding of the world. He presides over what we read, what we watch, what we come to believe about ourselves, to an extent that is without serious parallel anywhere on earth. In the words of Michael Wolff, Murdoch 'held more power over more time than any other contemporary figure'.

This is an opportunity to see and hear one of the most vivid, powerful, unusual, menacing and captivating men of the age. One of the central figures of our times.

Written in the irresistible style that only an award-winning columnist for 'Vanity Fair' can deliver, The Man Who Owns The News offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale - and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.

By: Michael Wolff
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 364g
ISBN: 9781741669121
ISBN 10: 174166912X
Pages: 466
Publication Date: 03 August 2009
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Wolff, a columnist for VANITY FAIR and two-time National Magazine Award winner, is one of America's most influential writers about media, culture, and politics. He is a regular commentator for CNBC, and well as for numerous other US news programs. In 2003, he achieved international recognition for his dispatches from the Persian Gulf as the Iraq War began. He is the author of four books, including AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS and BURN RATE. He lives in New York.