The Rise and Fall of the Murdoch Empire
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John Lisners. The Rise and Fall of the Murdoch Empire
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CAUGHT
THE MOST HUMBLE DAY OF MY LIFE
OPERATION WEETING
PARLIAMENT AND THE POLICE
SUMMONED TO PARLIAMENT
RICH MAN POOR MAN
‘AS BRITISH AS ROAST BEEF AND YORKSHIRE PUDDING’
FRONT PAGE
POLICE AND THE PRESS
PEERS AND PSYCHOPATHS
POLITICS AND POWER
FLEET STREET
MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS
CRIME AND CRIMINALS
CARRY ON COPPER
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED
EPILOGUE
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Title Page
PROLOGUE
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At this juncture good fortune smiled on Murdoch. David Cameron became prime minister in the Conservative-Liberal coalition government following the general election of 6 May 2010. His director of communications was Murdoch’s former editor Andy Coulson, who remained a close pal of Rebekah Brooks. James Murdoch, as head of News International, had given his newspapers’ backing to Cameron, as had Rebekah Brooks when she was editor of the Sun and then as chief executive officer of News International. She had by now become a member of the influential social and political circle known as the Chipping Norton set. This was made up of high fliers with country houses in the Cotswolds. Brooks was on first name terms with Cameron, as she had been with the two preceding prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Such was her political clout that both Brown and Cameron had been guests at her wedding to racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks who, like Cameron, had been educated at Eton. The elite circle of friends of the PM extended to Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth, a successful independent TV company owner and film maker, and her PR guru husband Matthew Freud, a great-grandson of Sigmund Freud and who in earlier times had pedalled PR tidbits to the NoW. With such an astonishing power group rooting for the Murdoch takeover of Sky, business secretary Vince Cable would have to tread carefully if his intention was to stop News Corporation taking over. Whatever Cable’s private views he would have to appear neutral. In the event, what happened can only be described as media mayhem bordering on comedy, despite the seriousness of the business at hand.
The Daily Telegraph has always been a solidly conservative newspaper catering to an affluent centre-right readership. It has an enviable record for excellent news coverage. In recent years it has become more adventurous in its content and won wide acclaim for its exposé of the expenses scandal involving Westminster politicians. In the past, however, it has often looked down from its lofty perch on the red-top newspapers and their undercover operations. It was surprising, then, that the Telegraph was to write to the business secretary imploring him to reject News International’s bid and barely a week later devised a newspaper trap for the politician in the best underhand tradition of News of the World reporters.
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