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The tabloid turns on Rupert Murdoch

For those looking for inside information on how Fox News functions and its position in American politics, Michael Wolff's The Fall is worth a read

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
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The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Author: Michael Wolff
Publisher: The Bridge Street Press
Pages: 295
Price: Rs 699

By 1991, Rupert Murdoch had almost lost News Corporation to the debt that piled up on the way to creating BSkyB. Just when the company was limping back to financial health, he blew over $870 million on Star TV, the only pan-Asian broadcaster then. It took nine years for Star to succeed in India. In the process it brought Channel [V], India’s first music channel (1994), Star News, its first news channel (1998), Radio City, the first private radio station (2001). It helped

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