The Man Who Owns the News
Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

It's hard to rate this book because it's a compelling read yet the writing style is utterly infuriating. The book follows Murdoch's purchase of the Wall Street Journal and uses that as a structure to dip into the past to important moments in his life. The trouble is the author writes in the present......more

Shrew and model businessman for some, amoral and vulgar technocrat for others, Rupert Murdoch is not the kind of person to leave indifferent! Michael Wolff, author specialist of mass media and himself a journalist, delivers here a direct, blunt, portray of the man, not sparring his words even if, at......more

I enjoyed this book and it was certainly the best bio I've read of Rupert Murdoch (there aren't too many of them and the last one I tried was a hatchet job based around some weird political conspiracy theory, which I abandoned less than halfway through). So comparatively speaking, this bio was well......more

Since I started with Michael Wolff's much later follow-up, "The Fall," I felt like I was reading in reverse when I approached this biography of Rupert Murdoch. Not nearly as fast-paced or compelling as its successor, which had inspired me to start watching and then fall in love with the show "Succes......more

While the topic of Murdoch interested me, this book is disorganized and poorly written & edited... just like... oh a Murdoch Tabloid story; which may indeed be the author's point.......more