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...TITLE: MURDOCH...
Hate him or love him (and some do, since the man has real charm), there is no escaping Rupert Murdoch these days in popular entertainment and journalism. At 61, the chairman of News Corp., who is now a naturalized American, stands out as one of the world's pre-eminent media barons. Through a bewildering mesh of subsidiaries, he controls an $8.5 billion communications empire that includes newspapers and magazines in Britain, the U.S. and Australia, the Fox . TV network and movie studio, plus a powerful satellite that beams video programming throughout the British Isles. Like Johnny Rocco, the mobster...
...themes stand out in this lumpy but fast-reading unauthorized biography, which gets the record straight yet seems to miss the inner man. (Shawcross, a British writer perhaps best known for his savaging of Henry Kissinger's Cambodia policy in Sideshow, managed to interview his subject. Murdoch read the manuscript but refused to comment on it.) One is that Murdoch is a daring but occasionally imprudent gambler, usually with other people's money. In 1990 News faced a liquidity crisis caused by the recession, a huge drop in advertising revenues, and Murdoch's reliance on short-term loans...
...second Rupert byte, if Shawcross can be believed, is that this restless entrepreneur, who controls so much of what the world reads and watches, seems to be utterly banal of mind. Apart from the family he dotes on, Murdoch apparently has no interests other than minding his properties and seeking new ones...
...Sean Murdoch put Brown in front 2-1 at 4:16 to finish off a 2-on-1 break and Mike Ross gave the Bears (5-7-2, 4-4-2) a 3-1 lead...