What Rupert Hath Wrought! by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

What Rupert Hath Wrought!

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain
by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
Blue Rider, 360 pp., $26.95

Why did the News of the World editors and the News International executives persist in a denial they knew to be false when it was obvious that, the longer they persisted, the more damaging the effect would be if the truth emerged? The answer must be that long experience had conditioned them to think that News International enjoyed special immunity, conferred by politicians and also by the police, and that they could get away with it. After all, they had got away with everything else for so long, thanks to Murdoch’s aura of invincibility and the way that successive governments had been hypnotized by him.

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