MURDOCH'S WORLD by DAVID FOLKENFLIK the last day of the old media empires

Murdochs World: The Last of the Old Media Empire. Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of journalism. In a stretch spanning six decades, he built News Corp from a small paper in Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire capable of challenging national broadcasters, rolling governments, and swatting aside commercial rivals. Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Murdochs defenders questioned how much he could have known about the bribery and phone hacking undertaken by his journalists in London. But to an exceptional degree, News Corp was an institution cast in the image of a single man. The companys culture was deeply rooted in an Australian buccaneering spirit, a brawling British populism, and an outsized American libertarian sensibility-at least when it suited Murdochs interests.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      David Folkenflik, the media correspondent for NPR News, explains how the man behind Britains take-no-prisoners tabloids, who reinvigorated Roger Ailes by backing his vision for Fox News, who gave a new swagger to the New York Post and a new style to the Wall Street Journal, survived the scandals-and the true cost of this survival. He summarily ended his marriage, alienated much of his family, and split his corporation asunder to protect the source of his vast wealth (on the one side), and the source of his identity (on the other). There were moments when the global news chief panicked. But as long as Rupert Murdoch remains the person at the top, Murdochs World will be making news.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

1.Two Families; 

2.Rupert in; 

3.The Gutter Is a Good Place to Be; 

4.The World Through Ruperts Eyes; 

5.Fair and Balanced; 

6.The Fog of War; 

7.The Voice of Opposition;   

8.The Greening of Rupert;                                                                                                                                                                  9.The Flying Muslims;                                        

10.A Totebag to a Knife Fight; 

11.As Bad As We Feared; 

12.Skys the Limit; 

13.The Yard; 

14.Goodbye Cruel World; 

15.Rebekah Brooks; 

16.Most Humble Day; 

17.The Jewel in the Crown; 

18.London Versus New York; 

19.The Only Person in London; 

20.Ailes Seeks a Legacy; 

21.GoodCo Versus ShitCo; 

22.We Are Judged by Our Acts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          BOOK REVIEWS: 

“Murdoch's World is bolstered by deep reporting, including scores of interviews, and laced with delicious anecdotes.”—Los Angeles Times; 

“I'm not sure I've seen a more apt capturing of Roger Ailes, a hardcore ideologue, the creator of one of the great anti-fact engines in the history of American life but at some level at [his] core someone who knows how to create and loves great television above all else.”—Josh Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                ABOUT THE AUTHOR: David Folkenflik is NPR's award-winning media correspondent based in New York City. His stories are broadcast on NPR's newsmagazines and shows, including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Talk of the Nation. Before joining NPR in 2004, Folkenflik spent more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun, where he covered higher education, Congress, and the media. He started his career at the Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun. In 1991, Folkenflik graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun. He has served as a media analyst on CNN's Reliable Sources, ABC News' Nightline, Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Folkenflik grew up in Laguna Beach, CA.