Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires that Control What We Read and Watch Each Day
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1893224600 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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What do Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch want out of life? Apart from the usual pleasures--love, fortune, good health--they apparently want to control the world's media. It has also, as Hack rightly notes, set the tone for the contemporary press, for the worse, sacrificing journalistic integrity in the interest of two "competing political agendas until there is one." Balanced, for the most part, if only because Hack seems to have little affection for either of his subjects, Clash of the Titans is a readable account of a private war betwee
This meticulously researched look at media business is also a dual biography. Turner and Murdoch are the major players in the media world today - and both have personal lives as complicated as their business dealings. On the other side of the world his counterpart, Keith Rupert Murdoch, impeccably dressed, ruthless and hungry for success, began with one small Australian newspaper and parlayed it into 125 newspapers and magazines around the glove, the Fox, Inc., motion picture and television conglomerate, and news satellites on four continents. In great detail it delves into both the personal and professional lives of these two outsize figures, their fierce competition, and their enormous effect on American daily life.. What he has eneded up with is the vice-chairmanship of AOL Time Warner throught he sale of his $3 billion empire, which includes CNN, superstation WTBS, Turner Network Television,Turner Classic Movies, the Atlanta Braves, the goodwill Games and MGM Studios. Family squabbles, public divorces, high-profile romances, huge charitable bequests and their appearances at the most exclusive g
"AN INFORMATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND INTERACTION OF THESE TWO MEDIA GIANTS" according to Steven H Propp. Richard Hack (born 1951) has written many other books, such as When Money Is King: How Revlon's Ron Perelman Mastered the World of Finance, Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters, Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie, Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, etc. [NOTE; page numbers refer . Shallow, but satisfying Rupert vs. Ted! Ted vs. Rupert! Great, easy to read narrative of the most modern media battle. If you want to know about the ideology and shenanigans behind Mr. Fair & BalancedTM, this is the book.