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The risible wizard of Oz

  28th February 2009  —  Issue 155
He's one of the most famous and successful media magnates in history. So how did Rupert Murdoch end up the subject of a biography with such a wickedly sharp sense of his ridiculousness?

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The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
(Bodley Head, £20)

Is Rupert Murdoch losing his marbles? First, perhaps under the influence of his third wife, he exhibits liberal tendencies; next he spends $5bn to buy the Wall Street Journal, ignoring the damage the deal will inflict on his own company’s share price; finally he tells his family and employees to talk to the American media writer Michael Wolff, the better to inform this book.

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