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In a career spanning four decades Rupert Murdoch has built News International into a $70 billion corporation. Through a series of breathtaking gambles he expanded from his base in the Australian newspaper business to achieve a preeminent position in the UK's media, and to control a huge slice of Hollywood. Increasingly his company has built a presence in online and digital media, most recently through its acquisition of MySpace, and he is steadily expanding into Southeast Asia. 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'. Working with unrivaled access to Murdoch himself, his family, and his inner circle of advisers, Wolff shows how Murdoch came to wield this power and the uses he has made of it. Murdoch has become almost invisible behind the strong emotions he provokes. Now Wolff's account reveals the qualities that took Murdoch to the top of the world and have kept him there. In doing so he tells a business story that is also the story of a man's life, and the story of our times.
著者について
Michael Wolff is a contributing editor and columnist for Vanity Fair, and a National Magazine Award winner and two-time nominee. His weekly column in New York Magazine, 'This Media Life', was one of the most influential commentaries about the media industry. He is the author of the best-selling Burn Rate, and of the books White Kids, Where We Stand - which became a multipart PBS series - and most recently, Autumn of the Moguls. He is a frequent guest commentator on a range of national news shows, and his journalism appears regularly in the Guardian.
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14 人中、14人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
interesting subject matter, extremely disappointing book
2009/4/1
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Wow, I feel like a total fool for purchasing this book. I bought this in an airport store right before a flight so the only reason I even got all the way through it was out of sheer boredom. After seeing the author on the Daily Show and from what I know about the almost mythical persona that is Murdoch, I thought this book would be a fun, gossipy read. Be careful what you wish for. This book needed to be trimmed by 100 pages (yes, even though it is barely over 400 pages long) just to be readable. To make this book GOOD, someone else would've had to write it. Wolff includes irrelevant details, drops literally hundreds of names, and drags out the sale of the WSJ for the entire book. Maybe if I were in publishing or had some sort of real connection to Murdoch's world I would have been able to stomach the astounding amount of minutiae, but come on, good storytelling could make many boring topics interesting and terrible writing can make the most fascinating subject matter soul-crushingly boring. Wolff chides Murdoch for feeding into gossip and rumor but he pretty much does the exact same thing. It was kind of interesting to learn about Murdoch's true political affiliations (or lack thereof) but there are less than 10 pages dedicated to Fox News, Murdoch's most controversial endeavor, and chapters and chapters describing people and issues that don't add much to the narrative. I am giving this book two stars because there are a couple of good tidbits and I think he tries to give a complete view of Murdoch's philosophies, life, etc, but this book is not well done at all.
17 人中、16人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Terrible, Terrible Writing
2009/12/14
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With a subject as fascinating as Rupert Murdoch, it is sad that the book that emerges is nothing better (in fact, markedly worse) than a Michael Wolff Vanity Fair column. The prose loops and swoops in unexpected, and unwelcome, ways, and the reader is simply left confused. The three most interesting things about Murdoch are his business acumen (yet there is little that is informative in the way of business information in this book - I only learnt that News Corp is worth $9 billion when I came to the Amazon reviews); his politics (perilously little analysis about the politics of Fox News, except for some asides about Roger Ailes); and perhaps his family life (which is maybe the best covered element of this book, but told in such a gossipy, snarky manner as to be extremely irritating, rather than enlightening).
The thread about the Wall Street Journal acquisition (which is the putative raison d'etre of the book) is so badly told, and ends in such a damp squib, that one is tempted to throw away the book in disgust. It may be unfair, but any book that claims to tell the tale of a takeover sets itself against the master of the genre - 'Barbarians at the Gate' - and this falls woefully short.
If this is Michael Wolff's writing style, and he intends on sticking to it, there is still a much better book he can write than this one. It was an extreme disappointment.
The thread about the Wall Street Journal acquisition (which is the putative raison d'etre of the book) is so badly told, and ends in such a damp squib, that one is tempted to throw away the book in disgust. It may be unfair, but any book that claims to tell the tale of a takeover sets itself against the master of the genre - 'Barbarians at the Gate' - and this falls woefully short.
If this is Michael Wolff's writing style, and he intends on sticking to it, there is still a much better book he can write than this one. It was an extreme disappointment.
13 人中、12人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The Most Distracting Writing...Ever
2009/7/27
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When I reached the 2/3rd mark of this book, I had to quit. Will someone please take Michael Wolff back to school to learn how to write correctly? The book is rife with rambling asides in parentheses and, his all-time favorite, within dashes. I challenge someone to find more than two pages within this entire book that does not include a dash (the Acknowledgments do not count). If something is worth mentioning, please take the take to develop it properly. I am not one of those curmudgeonly people who usually picks apart a book but am compelled to point out that abundant patience is needed to make it through this book.
This is all to say that Wolff's writing distracts terribly from a topic and a man who is fascinating for what he has accomplished and how he had done it. The format of following Murdoch's life with the parallel story line of the Dow Jones purchase works very well to keep the book fresh.
This is all to say that Wolff's writing distracts terribly from a topic and a man who is fascinating for what he has accomplished and how he had done it. The format of following Murdoch's life with the parallel story line of the Dow Jones purchase works very well to keep the book fresh.
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