Impossible to follow

Non-chronological, meandering, and tedious. Read Ted Turner's instead, or Gerstner's, or Weill's. No insight into Murdoch's business style, approach, views. No real behind the scenes intrigue. Just a hatchet job on the man; none of his perspective. A real disappointment. I wish I had listened to the abridged version, though I see even it is over 6 hours long. Two would have probably been about right.

12 persone l'hanno trovata utile

great read for enemies of murdoch

Terrific hatchet job. Entertaining and full of obscure and senseless observations of Murdochian thought and behavior. Great narration too.

8 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Worst Audio Book I've Ordered

This is the worse book I've heard. From the first sentence, it's is a nonstop negative portrayal of Mr. Murdoch, News Corp., WSJ, etc. It's relentless. Even if you dislike the man and company, it would be hard to listen to it without thinking that it seems more like a schoolyard rant than any serious discussion. Literally every sentence drips with negativity.

5 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Grandiose and tedious

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Its is probably for people who just want to hear a long, tedious rambling about how evil Murdoch is.

Has The Man Who Owns the News turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, I'll still try to listen/read to some.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes, the narration was OK.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Man Who Owns the News?

Most of it is not really scenes, just thoughts and assertions by the author, without any seeming knowledge. I'd leave only the story itself, which would last less than one hour.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

MUST READ for business people

Personally speaking I have learned a lot from listening to this book on how I could be a better business professional. not only that but Rupert Murdoch is one of those significant figures in history that I think (Despite any personal opinions) we could all learn from

Worst Written Biography Ever

Repetitive anecdotes (crappy editing), lacking any source attribution in the text (makes events seem like heresay) and unceasing bullshittery over and above what Wolff has accomplished since. An unfinishable corpse of a book.

Author Is Way Too Hallucinatory

I can count the books I was not able to finish on one hand. This is one of them. Every writer manages to enter their own attitudes, fantasies, guesses, and evaluations to some degree. But this writer goes so far as to describe what Murdoch is thinking, feeling, and guessing. It practically reads like a novel. The description of Hollywood culture and social intercourse was so blatantly incorrect I began to wonder if I should believe anything else I had read up to that point. A few hours later I just had to put it down. It became painful to listen to the slander, slurs, armchair psychiatric evaluations and hallucinatory guesses at Murdoch's feelings, motives, goals, purposes, desires, and attitudes. I can cautiously state the book was written from a position of deep resentment towards Murdoch, and a sadistic desire to degrade and humiliate him.

Chaotic storyline - great take out

The book is revolving around one moment - Buying the WSJ and is connecting Murdoch’s whole life to that single event. Chaotic to follow but a great insight in the mind of one of the most powerful people on the planet.