Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
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If Rupert Murdoch isn't making headlines, he's buying the media outlets that generate the headlines–from the Fox network and Fox News, to MySpace, to the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal–and that influence every aspect of American politics and culture. He may be the most powerful man of the age–and, many, would argue, the most frightening.In nine months of interviews, Michael Wolff has had more access to Murdoch and his associates and family than any journalist has ever been granted. This is the story of Murdoch as Machiavellian titan, as overbearing (but doting) father, as love-struck husband (of a woman forty years his junior), and as the most cynical and brilliant newsman who has ever lived.Written in the incisive and compelling style that has made Wolff's Vanity Fair column such as must-read–and with a new foreword and afterword detailing the reaction Murdoch had to the book as well as his tumultuous relationship with and abhorrence of the Internet and its effects on his newspapers industry–The Man Who Owns the News reveals a host of new details about Murdoch's business, his family, his hopes for the future, and other media companies he yet wants to own.The Man Who Owns the News is an epic for our time.
Acknowledgments viiForeword to the Paperback Edition xvPrologue: His Message 1Chapter 1 The Butterfly Effect 15Chapter 2 Around the Corner 31Chapter 3 The Throwback 53Chapter 4 Opposing Families 83Chapter 5 The Outsider 115Chapter 6 His Art 141Chapter 7 The Eighties–Business Guys 161Chapter 8 It's a Tabloid World 197Chapter 9 Who's the Boss? 225Chapter 10 Rupertism 255Chapter 11 The Nineties–The Amazing Mr. 287Chapter 12 Rupert in Love 317Chapter 13 The Ecology 339Chapter 14 Dynasty 351Chapter 15 Putting the Deal to Bed 377Epilogue: The Proprietor 389Afterword to the Paperback Edition 405Endnotes 414Bibliography 440Index 445
