The 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 busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. 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 Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch's $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.Written in the irresistible stye 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.
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
