Murdoch's Politics

Author: David McKnight
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745333465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organization in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporation as his vehicle. In Murdoch's Politics, David McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation, its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change. Including analysis of the phone hacking crisis, possible bribery charges and Murdoch's appearance at the Leveson enquiry, this book is a highly topical study of one of the most influential and controversial figures of the modern age.

The Making of Murdoch: Power, Politics and What Shaped the Man Who Owns the Media

Author: Tom Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788317831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Rupert Murdoch's extraordinary career has no parallel. His control of Fox news, which so successfully supports the Trump presidency, is a key force in American politics. In the UK, his control of The Sun and The Times leaves politicians scrambling to get him onside. But what do we know about the man himself? This book looks closely at the Murdochs, focusing on Rupert's father Keith, who built the family's media power and cultivated the anti-establishment instincts that his son Rupert is known for. Roberts traces the life of the Murdochs, how Rupert Murdoch's view of the world was formed, and assesses it's impact on the media that influences our politics today.

Rupert Murdoch

Author: David McKnight
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742695825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
'A study of dangerous media abuse of power and of abject government weakness in regard to it. This is a disturbing book.' - From the foreword by Robert Manne Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporation as his vehicle. David McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, to his attacks on Barack Obama and the Rudd and Gillard governments. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its sponsorship of think tanks and its recurring editorial campaigns around the world. Its success is reflected in the fact that the campaigns are familiar to us all: small government and market deregulation, skepticism on climate change, support for neo-conservative adventures such as Iraq and criticism of all things 'liberal'. While the phone hacking crisis has tarnished his reputation, Rupert Murdoch's influence is far from finished.

The Fall of the House of Murdoch

Author: Peter Jukes
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1908717432
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
Structured around the fourteen days in 2011, from the moment the News of the World's hacking of the phone of a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl was exposed, The Fall of the House of Murdoch is a riveting account of the scandal that closed the world's best-selling English-language newspaper, forced one of the most powerful families in the world to appear before Parliament and finally prompted Murdoch's departure from the UK newspaper world he dominated for three decades. But the book covers more than just Hackgate. It is a forensic expose of News Corp's culture, through the early days in Australian media, the purchase of the News of the World, the Sun and the Times group, the Wapping move to the move into satellite broadcasting and the creation of the Fox Network. Exhaustively researched and fully sourced, The Fall of the House of Murdoch is a morality tale for our times, a family drama played out on a world stage and required reading for anyone seeking to understand the hidden connections that bind politics, business and culture together.

The Murdoch Archipelago

Author: Bruce Page
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849837805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 750

Book Description
The recent News Corporation scandal has catapulted Murdoch and his global media empire into the public eye as perhaps never before. In the English-speaking world, and increasingly in 'untapped' but potentially lucrative markets such as China, Murdoch wields an influence as political kingmaker second to none. How did he do it? How did this empire, a loose 'archipelago' of media islands large and small, come to be so successful and influential? How did it all come to the current, disastrous state? And will the empire survive the recent scandal that has outraged people around the world and rocked the media? Building on many years' research and featuring many previously undisclosed revelations, THE MURDOCH ARCHIPELAGO is the most up-to-date and definitive survey of Murdoch's life and times; how power flows from influence; and whether this should (or if it can) be regulated.

Rupert Murdoch

Author: Rodney Tiffen
Publisher: NewSouth
ISBN: 1742241492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
Tony Abbott thinks that Rupert Murdoch is one of the most influential Australians of all time and that we should support our ‘hometown hero’. Murdoch, who has mainly lived in New York since 1973 and renounced his Australian citizenship in order to move into American TV, has aroused much more controversy than most hometown heroes. This comprehensive book traces his business career, the entrepreneurial strategies that led to his early success and his later exercises of monopoly power. It dissects his political ideas, the relish with which he approaches political campaigning, and the way he leverages political support into policy outcomes that favour his business. Some of his news outlets have been responsible for very good journalism, but have also been lambasted for outrageous sensationalism and political bias. Fox News has reached new lows in the mixing of propaganda and news and his newspapers in Australia have mainly championed conservative governments.

Murdoch's World

Author: David Folkenflik
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 161039089X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Describes how media magnate Rupert Murdoch was humbled and humiliated by allegations of the News of the World telephone hacking scandal and had to split his self-built company into two in order for his business survive this dark, tumultuous period.

Rupert Murdoch

Author: Heinz Duthel
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 9781467910934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572

Book Description
Rupert MurdochThe Politico Media Complex Mogul"Cameron is very much in debt to Rebekah Wade for helping him not quite win the election... So that was my submission to parliament - that Cameron's either a liar or an idiot."Murdoch has been listed three times in the Time 100 as among the most influential people in the world. Just as Fox claims to be "fair and balanced," Rupert Murdoch claims to stay out of partisan politics. But he has made his views quite clear - and used his media empire to implement his wishes. As a former News Corp. executive told Fortune Magazine, Murdoch "hungered for the kind of influence in the United States that he had in England and Australia" and that meant "part of our political strategy [in the U.S.] was the New York Post and the creation of Fox News and the Weekly Standard."Paying police for informationNews Corporation has subsidiaries in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands and the Virgin Islands. From In July 2011 Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty and public citizens. He faced police and government investigations into bribery and corruption in the UK and FBI investigations in the US.20 per cent of the Met has taken backhanders from tabloid hacks. So why would they want to open up that can of worms? And what's wrong with that, anyway? It doesn't hurt anyone particularly." Rupert Murdoch Order of St. Gregory the Great Business magnate The Wall Street Journal News International phone hacking scandal Keith Murdoch Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist) Order of the British Empire Philosophy, politics, and economics News Limited The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Economist The Daily Telegraph (Australia) Order of Australia Mushroom Records James Murdoch Australian Labor Party Kevin Rudd The Sun (United Kingdom) The Times The Sunday Times Margaret Thatcher Labour Party (UK) Tony Blair David Cameron Sky Television plc British Satellite Broadcasting Manchester United F.C. British Royal Family Murder of Milly Dowler 7 July 2005 London bombings Police corruption Press Complaints Commission Dow Jones & Company Les Hinton Tom Crone Paul Stephenson (police officer) Andy Coulson Neil Wallis September 11 attacks Foreign Corrupt Practices Act News of the World royal phone hacking scandal Specialist Operations Protection Command Charles, Prince of Wales List of alleged victims of the News International phone hacking scandal Mosley v News Group Newspapers Politico-media complex Multinational corporation News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan Crown Prosecution Service Ian Edmondson Clive Goodman Glenn Mulcaire Private investigator Operation Weeting Operation Elveden Sue Akers John Prescott Alex Ferguson Boris Johnson Max Clifford Rebekah Brooks Tessa Jowell Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary Keir Starmer Andy Hayman Home Affairs Select Committee Standards and Privileges Committee William Lewis (journalist) Hugh Grant BBC Radio 4 Question Time (TV series) Sheridan v News Group Newspapers Sienna Miller Kelly Hoppen David Mills (lawyer) Andy Gray (footballer born 1955) Sky Andrew George Galloway Danny Alexander Peter Hain James Weatherup Media Standards Trust The Royal British Legion Sara Payne Gordon Brown Mark Stephens (solicitor) Death of Jean Charles de Menezes Carole Caplin Virgin Holidays The Co-operative Group Ford Motor Company Deutsche Telekom France Télécom Lloyds Banking Group Tesco Hillary Rodham Clinton Barack Obama Republican Governors Association Cato Institute Silvio Berlusconi Wendi Deng Murdoch BSkyB The Fourth Estate (novel) Time 100 List of assets owned by News Corporation Shine Limited 20th Century Fox

Iris Murdoch and the Political

Author: Gary Browning
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192659561
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say that she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, this book argues the contrary. Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, just as she did in literature and philosophy. She saw historical experience as the foundation upon which the inter-linked activities of literature, philosophy and politics are based. In reading Murdoch we get a clear insight into the nature of the modern political world. From an early political radicalism to a later anti-utopianism, Murdoch reacted to the great political events of the twentieth century, notably the Holocaust, the rise and fall of ideologies, sexual repression, and the realities of totalitarianism. Her political philosophy conceptualized relations between moral and political spheres, and her novels deal imaginatively with questions of migration, refugees, sexuality and freedom. Her letters and journals provide moment to moment reactions to major political events. Iris Murdoch and the Political presents a lively discussion of Iris Murdoch and her political thought, taking in the nature of socialist thought, the New Left and liberalism in the UK in the latter part of the twentieth century. The book is based upon a wide variety of sources, including Murdoch's journals, letters, reviews, essays, novels and books. It draws upon scholarship in philosophy, literature and intellectual history in developing a coherent sense of how Murdoch theorized the political.

Fox Populism

Author: Reece Peck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108693563
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
Fox Populism offers fresh insights into why the Fox News Channel has been both commercially successful and politically effective. Where existing explanations of Fox's appeal have stressed the network's conservative editorial slant, Reece Peck sheds light on the importance of style as a generative mode of ideology. The book traces the historical development of Fox's counter-elite news brand and reveals how its iconoclastic news style was crafted by fusing two class-based traditions of American public culture: one native to the politics in populism and one native to the news field in tabloid journalism. Using the network's coverage of the late-2000s economic crisis as the book's principal case study, Peck then shows how style is deployed as a political tool to frame news events. A close analysis of top-rated programs reveals how Fox hails its audience as 'the real Americans' and successfully represents narrow, conservative political demands as popular and universal.