Former journalist and publisher, Eric Beecher, is certainly the right person to write this book – for two reasons.
Firstly, he’s a longtime industry insider, having been the youngest ever editor of The Sydney Morning Herald during the 1980s and working in or adjacent to the news media ever since. He now owns and runs satirical news site Crikey, and had a foray into book publishing (he co-founded Text Publishing with partner Diana Gribble). Secondly, as an Australian, he has a unique perspective on how pivotal Australia has been in the global news business because of the influence of Murdoch.
His thesis is that press barons like Murdoch and his contemporaries from Hearst right through to Musk have constantly and brazenly used their power to manipulate politics and the tastes of the public for their own financial ends.
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