Murdochs open up in a way they’ll regret
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Stephen Mayne writes:
In September 2007, Michael Wolff produced what was regarded by many as a soft profile of Rupert Murdoch for Vanity Fair, which was contrary to the widespread pounding the Sun King received during the battle for Dow Jones.
However, even Wolff was surprised when Murdoch granted him enormous access for a book project, which extended to interviews with his mother and adult children.
I met up with Wolff for a couple of hours in New York after last year’s News Corp AGM and it was clear he wasn’t planning to produce a hagiography.
No doubt News Corp will be regretting opening up to a New York liberal, because the embarrassment is piled high, including the following revelations that Rupert:
dyes his own hair augerine over the sink;
misrepresents the fact that his two youngest daughters to Wendi don’t have voting rights after he goes;
is becoming more liberal thanks to Wendi whilst increasingly embarrassed about Fox News and Roger Ailes;
preferred Obama to Hillary simply because he’ll sell more newspapers;
used the Kennedys to try and gain access to Obama;
believes Muslims are genetically inferior because cousins marry;
fantasises about buying The New York Times;
is personally an inveterate gossip and hatchet merchant;
can’t look at pregnant women;
is a schemer who acknowledges no rules;
showed no respect for the Dow Jones editorial independence arrangements;
wasn’t kept in the loop by son Lachlan during the CMH privatisation bid with James Packer;
ignored his mother’s advice when divorcing Anna; and
is desperate to get his kids back in the business even though Elisabeth quit in 2000 over the divorce with her mother.
http://www.crikey.com.au/Media-Arts-and-Sports/20080904-Murdochs-open-up-in-a-way-theyll-regret.html
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