What makes Rupert run?
Ross McKibbin: Murdoch’s Politics, 20 June 2013
Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth & Power Shapes Our World
by David McKnight.
Pluto, 260 pp., £12.99, February 2013,978 0 7453 3346 5 Show More
by David McKnight.
Pluto, 260 pp., £12.99, February 2013,
“... it looks as if the electorate has abandoned them too – hence his dumping of the Tories in 1997. David McKnight sees all this differently. Murdoch knew that he could have no influence in China. There was no point in alienating its government and damaging his profits, so he ditched the promotion of democracy and with it the BBC and Patten. In ... ”