Six experts on how the Australian-born entrepreneur’s newspaper titles and TV channels transformed the media landscape
The imperial doings of Rupert Murdoch over the past 70 years make for a story often told. Orthodoxy tells us that to grow and protect his empire he needed the support of political leaders, and to build their power some of those leaders needed the pulpits provided by the outlets that he controlled.
Robert Thompson is director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and trustee professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
