Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World - Hardcover

McKnight, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745333478 ISBN 13: 9780745333472

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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...

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About the Author

David McKnight is an associate professor at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the award-winning author of Beyond Right and Left: New Politics and the Culture War(2005) and worked as a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC TV's prestigious investigative programme Four Corners.

Robert W. McChesney is Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, and the...

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Review

"David McKnight has managed to write something that is at once original, courageous, realistic, and fresh." - Robert Manne, Professor of Politics, La Trobe University, Australia

"David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest." - Margo Kingston, author of Not Happy John

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0745333478
• ISBN 13: 9780745333472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248