Meanwhile, as the elder Murdoch remained seriously ill, a few of his subordinates conspired to relieve him of his ownership of theMelbourne Heraldand other newspapers. After his father's death in 1952 the young Murdoch found that Australia's enormous death taxes had taken away most of the rest...
SUNDAY Times, The (Newspaper)First page of articledoi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.1984.tb02616.xHUGO YOUNGJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdPolitical QuarterlyYoung, Hugo (1984) "Rupert Murdoch and the Sunday Times: a lamp goes out", The Political Quarterly 55(4)....
Murdoch is cast as a business disruptor and credited with the idea of user-generated content. Neither role is that convincing but the ideas intrigue. Murdoch’s drive, so perfectly embodied in Carvel’s performance, comes from