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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Praise for Michael Wolff’s BURN RATE
“Burn Rate has a terrific feel for the crazy deals, the characters, and the clashing bicoastal cultures of the Internet.” —Deborah Stead, New York Times
“Burn Rate is the real deal: a smart, thoughtful, funny, knowing, clear-eyed, candid and altogether exhilarating insider’s chronicle of the new media business—that is, the new media ‘business.’ If there’s a more honest and entertaining book on the digital revolution, I haven’t seen it.” —Kurt Andersen, columnist at The New Yorker
“Wolff has given us the best account of both the lure and the frustration of the Internet.” —Peter Martin, Financial Times
“Burn Rate is a hilarious and frightening account of the life of an Internet startup.”
—Amy Cortese, BusinessWeek
“Wolff, a nimble writer with a knack for spotting colorful details, moves the story along at movie-of-the-week pace.” —Katie Hafner, New York Times Book Review
From the Hardcover edition.
“Burn Rate has a terrific feel for the crazy deals, the characters, and the clashing bicoastal cultures of the Internet.” —Deborah Stead, New York Times
“Burn Rate is the real deal: a smart, thoughtful, funny, knowing, clear-eyed, candid and altogether exhilarating insider’s chronicle of the new media business—that is, the new media ‘business.’ If there’s a more honest and entertaining book on the digital revolution, I haven’t seen it.” —Kurt Andersen, columnist at The New Yorker
“Wolff has given us the best account of both the lure and the frustration of the Internet.” —Peter Martin, Financial Times
“Burn Rate is a hilarious and frightening account of the life of an Internet startup.”
—Amy Cortese, BusinessWeek
“Wolff, a nimble writer with a knack for spotting colorful details, moves the story along at movie-of-the-week pace.” —Katie Hafner, New York Times Book Review
From the Hardcover edition.
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5つ星のうち 2.0
interesting subject matter, extremely disappointing book
2009/4/1
By DB
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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.
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5つ星のうち 2.0
Terrible, Terrible Writing
2009/12/14
By Wallace Kantai
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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.
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5つ星のうち 2.0
The Most Distracting Writing...Ever
2009/7/27
By Laura K.
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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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