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The Men Who Killed the News - by Eric Beecher (Paperback)

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  • Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-FictionNominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and direct US government policy.
  • Author(s): Eric Beecher
  • 418 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Industries

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Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction

Nominated for the 2025 Sperber Prize

Never before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and direct US government policy. But as Crikey owner and ex-News Corp executive Eric Beecher shows, media moguls have a long history of abusing their power ...

What's gone wrong with our media? The answer: its owners. From William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk, from the British press barons to colonial upstarts Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch, media proprietors have manipulated the news to accumulate wealth and influence as they meddled with democracy.

Eric Beecher knows the news business from bottom to top. He has been a journalist, editor and media proprietor (of Text Media and Crikey), with the rare distinction of having both worked for and been sued (unsuccessfully) by the Murdochs.

This book reveals the distorted role of the media moguls of the past two centuries: their techniques, strategies, behind-closed-doors machinations, and indulgent lifestyles. It explains how they have exploited the shield of the freedom of the press to undermine journalism - and truth.

In an era of fake news, AI and misinformation, this is democracy's chillingly important story: how a small coterie of flawed and narcissistic moguls created a shadow of power that has contributed to making the media an agent of mistrust.



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'a hugely important topic, which too few journalists write about.'

- Financial Times

'The Men Who Killed the News is a passionate and excoriating book that should inform and disturb the general reader interested in media, power, and misinformation.'

- Australian Book Review

'In a pacey compression of press history going back to the late 19th century, Beecher vividly illustrates how newspaper moguls ... have cynically debased the profession of journalism in pursuit of wealth and power ... The Men Who Killed the News is a book for the times.'

- The Conversation

'A witty and absorbing Decline and Fall for a media era that has destroyed itself.'

- Virginia Trioli

'The Men Who Killed the News is one of the most important books published here in many years. It should be read by everyone who is interested in a civil society.'

- Mark Rubbo, Readings online

'A globally important book'

- Alan Kohler

'Brilliant'

- Mike Carlton, author of Dive!


Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x .93 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.26 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 418
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Industries
Publisher: Scribner Australia
Theme: Media & Communications
Format: Paperback
Author: Eric Beecher
Language: English
Street Date: July 31, 2024
TCIN: 1007644445
UPC: 9781761428043
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-8417
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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