Bloomberg’s new 45-minute profile on Rupert Murdoch, which charters his rise to the top of the global media empire, is available to watch online. Watch for the cameo from Australia’s leading bearded commentator Mungo MacCallum as an interviewee.
Bloomberg profiles Rupert Murdoch
Bloomberg’s new 45-minute profile on Rupert Murdoch, which charters his rise to the top of the global media empire, is available to watch online. Watch for the cameo from Australia’s leading bearded commentator Mungo MacCallum as an interviewee.
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Link to video is borked/missing using firefox.
Fortunately, viewing a 45 min profile of Rupert is not an urgent desire in this house. 🙂
How refreshing, in a perverse kind of way – that old style religion kind of doco. Of course, being Bloomberg it’s “just the facts, ma’am”. The trouble with this approach is it’s inevitably hagiographic, and effortlessly on the side of the Wall St plutocrats. This sort of elliptical history is in fact a kind of PR. Not propaganda exactly, but propaganda by default. Surprise, surprise: Murdoch turns out to be Kingpin of the American Dream. But read that face, the vicissitudes of that face. it looks like a ruined souffle, or a fugue of dunes, the disconnected eyes staring out like dates in the dough. Yes, Citizen Kane, yes. But unlike his celluloid counterpart Murdoch will break before he cracks.
The irritating part of the five minutes I looked at is that it takes hagiography up to an art form. I’ll bet his children love him; not! He’ll probably outlive Wendy Ding, take a younger edition and have two or three more kids. What might be called a disseminated family.