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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Wolff surmises in the opening pages of The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch that the News Corp. chairman and CEO submitted to 50 hours of interviews and directed family and business associates to speak on the record for the biography because he sensed that Wolff had the "same contempt" for "many of his enemies—particularly the journalistic priesthood." [ more...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Media critic Michael Wolff's new book, The Man Who Owns the News, is excerpted in the London Guardian today. But it glosses over the details of a joke in particularly poor taste that the reptilian...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
So Michael Wolff 's long-awaited bio of Rupert Murdoch , The Man Who Owns The News , hit shelves yesterday. Portfolio has a round-up reactions (the Times did not love). Over at BusinessWeek Jon Fine says that "Wolff's Murdoch mumbles, dissembles, has cultural sensibilities predating Elvis Presley if not Rudy Vallee." Fine separately posted some of his conversation with Wolff, in which they argue about...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The Man Who Owns the News, Michael Wolff's biography of Rupert Murdoch is chock-o-block with the media mogul's wit and whimsy. For instance, here's an excerpted joke he told London Sun editor Rebekkah Wade over drinks: "God this is brilliant…what's the difference between a fridge and poofter? Well, when you pull the meat out of [...]
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Rupert Murdoch, chief executive officer of News Corp., is one of the most successful and complex leaders in the media universe. But his biographer Michael Wolff has a simple explanation for what makes Murdoch tick.
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
For the most part, Rupert Murdoch courts controversy. "He likes to set the house on fire and watch all the fire engines drive maniacally down the road," Michael Wolff writes in a biography of the...
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blatherWatch (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Media Generalissimo Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News Captain Roger Ailes "absolutely despise" Bill O'Reilly, the fat-mouthed, faux populist bruiser whose show on their network is cable's top-rated. In a biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns The News,...
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Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sam Gustin writes : Media pundit Michael Wolff, author of the new Rupert Murdoch biography, The Man Who Owns The News , thinks MySpace's users are uneducated riff-raff. "If you're on MySpace now, you're a [expletive] cretin," Wolff tells Jon Fine. "And you're not only a [expletive] cretin, but you're poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people."...
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Sempringham (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump aren't doing so well, these days. Of course, we should do so badly! Details here .
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The Boston Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Boston Herald owner and Publisher Patrick J. Purcell is taking an executive position under his old boss and mentor, Rupert Murdoch, and will continue to own and run the Herald.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 37 minutes ago
ITALIAN MEDIA mogul and prime minister Silvio Berlusconi last night appeared to be reconsidering the terms of a proposed tax increase on Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia pay-TV operations.
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SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Arrington submits: If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what [Rupert Murdoch biographer] Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says: …if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond...
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shugaray | 09/04/2008
Video: Rupert Murdoch Predicts Landslide Obama Win !
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kamen group | 05/09/2008
Media Appraiser Convinced Murdoch Will Be Good For Long Island and Newsday Baldwin, NY- Media appraiser Kevin Kamen, president of Baldwin based Kamen & Co Group Services, said today that "the pending acquisition of Newsday by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch will be better for both Newsday readers and its employees than a Cablevision deal because Rupert understands the dynamics of owning and operating...
