Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades In Print, Six Days In CourtMan Bites Murdoch is Bruce Guthrie's explosive account of almost 40 years in the news business, his brutal dismissal from Australia's biggest selling paper, the celebrated court case that exposed the inner workings of the world's biggest media company and the treachery of its most senior executives. Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers, to become a foreign correspondent and then one of Australia's feistiest and most controversial editors. His CV boasts editorships of The Age, The Sunday Age, Herald Sun, Who Weekly, The Weekend Australian Magazine, even a stint at America's celeb-news bible, People. Then, just as he claimed one of the industry's most glittering prizes, he fell foul of Rupert Murdoch and his henchmen, who promptly dispensed with his services. What would any self-respecting Broadmeadows boy do in such circumstances? Sue them, of course. Man Bites Murdoch exposes the back rooms of Australian business, politics and media and offers a front-row seat at the many seismic events that played out over the last 20 years, including Murdoch's relentless push for growth both here and overseas, young Warwick Fairfax's ill-fated takeover of the family company and the extraordinary impact of the internet. |
Contents
Rupert comes to town | 3 |
And the winner is | 13 |
The dismissal | 22 |
Hi Im Rupert Murdoch | 31 |
Widford Street to Spencer Street | 47 |
Broady boys | 49 |
Read all about it | 60 |
Jump boy jump | 65 |
Sixth Avenue to Southbank | 187 |
New York New York | 189 |
Bound for Botany Bay | 202 |
The firm | 213 |
An opportunity has come up | 226 |
Coming to grips | 235 |
Change partners | 248 |
Storm clouds | 255 |
Death in the afternoon | 74 |
Rocky Mountain high | 87 |
The downhill run | 92 |
Off to war | 99 |
Out of the red into the Black | 105 |
TV or not TV? | 117 |
Not your everyday newspaper | 125 |
The poisoned chalice | 135 |
If the boss rings can you get his name? | 143 |
Drip drip drip | 157 |
Outnumbered | 169 |
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