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Author Chenoweth, Neil.

Title Virtual Murdoch : reality wars on the information highway / Neil Chenoweth
Published London : Secker & Warburg, 2001

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Description xvi, 399 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part One Atlantic Crossing -- Chapter One Voltaire's Undergraduate -- Young Rupert Murdoch considers the -- consolations of philosophy, while his party goes -- swimmingly -- Chapter Two The Drunken Sailor -- Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch have a -- boat race and drift outside the buoys -- Chapter Three Wapping's Casualties -- The intercontinental consequences of -- riotous success -- Chapter Four The Party Line -- In which Rupert Murdoch finds salvation -- at a New York soiree -- Chapter Five The Fugitive -- The man who keeps News Corporation's -- secrets has to run -- Chapter Six The Pretenders -- Anna Murdoch muses on sex and the -- summer while the family talks money -- Part Two American Jihad -- Chapter Seven Herb Allen's Porch -- The Masters of the Universe do brunch and -- Ron Perelman thinks he is the clever one -- Chapter Eight The Apple Fumble -- How Gerry Levin and Ted Turner foiled -- the Second Coming -- Chapter Nine Wired -- The High Court learns that someone has been -- listening on the telephone -- Chapter Ten The Poker Player -- Rupert Murdoch declares war on everybody -- Chapter Eleven Divided Royalties -- Newt Gingrich discovers that friendship -- has no price -- Chapter Twelve The Testing of Pat -- Televangelists, gold mining in Zaire -- and the perfect children's program -- Chapter Thirteen Man For All Seasons -- Midnight mishaps by footballers, baseball -- clubs and a large polo player -- Chapter Fourteen The Mouse Wars -- Michael Eisner sets a trap -- Part Three Murdoch's Archipelago -- Chapter Fifteen The Trouble With Tony -- The Prime Minister regrets picking -- up the telephone -- Chapter Sixteen Rupert's Rocket -- The Murdochs encounter turbulence -- but achieve escape velocity -- Chapter Seventeen The Manhattan 'Window -- In which a global media baron discovers he -- has a second chance -- Postscript -- Notes.nd Strateg
Summary "In the summer of 2000, as the world's great media companies battle to reinvent themselves, Rupert Murdoch is weeks away from realising his life's dream. He is on a quest to change the way the world communicates and to establish himself as the most powerful media figure on the planet before the wave of money from the technology stock boom fails." "Virtual Murdoch charts the real story behind the rise of News Corporation: the secret debt crises and family deals, the New York party that saved his empire, the covert government inquiries, the tax investigations as well as the bewildering duels with Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Gerry Levin, Ron Perelman, Newt Gingrich, cable king John Malone, Disney's Michael Eisner, Tony Blair and televangelist turned diamond miner, Pat Robertson."
"From the Power Rangers to Titanic, Neil Chenoweth tracks a broad course across fin de siecle media culture. As time runs out for Murdoch, the race for the Premier League television rights is the key to an $US80 billion deal. Battling cancer, juggling politics on three continents, his family fraying while the empire falters, Rupert Murdoch will do whatever he must to make this final, greatest gamble work."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Debt management
Murdoch, Rupert
News Corp
Publishing
Subscription television
Takeovers and mergers
Tax disputes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-386) and index
Subject Murdoch, Rupert, 1931-
News Corporation.
Corporations -- Australia.
International business enterprises.
Mass media -- Australia -- Biography.
Mass media.
Newspaper publishing -- History -- 20th century.
Newspapers -- Ownership.
Publishers and publishing -- Australia -- Biography.
Publishers and publishing.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2001431331
ISBN 0436233894
9780436233890