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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation: A Media Institution with A Mission

2010; Routledge; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01439685.2010.505021

1465-3451

David McKnight,

Contemporary Literature and Criticism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgement This project was supported by a grant to the author from the Australian Research Council in the form of a Discovery Grant on political commentary in the media of News Corporation (DP0774025). 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Gershon, The Transnational Media Corporation: global messages and free market competition (Mahwah, NJ, 1997), 33. 7 Amelia Arsenault and Manuel Castells, Switching power: Rupert Murdoch and the global business of media politics: a sociological analysis, International Sociology, 23(4) (July 2008), 497. 8 William Shawcross, Rupert Murdoch, 302. 9 Ken Auletta, The pirate, The New Yorker, 76(6) (13 November 1995), 86. 10 Steve Stecklow, Aaron Patrick, Martin Peers, Andrew Higgins, Calling the shots, Wall Street Journal, 5 June 2007. 11 Andrew Neil, Full Disclosure (London, 1996), 169–171. 12 Steven Barnett and Ivor Gaber, Westminster Tales: the twenty first century crisis in political journalism (London 2001), 66–67. 13 Shawcross, Rupert Murdoch, 550. 14 Ibid., 550. 15 Bill Hagerty, I don't do it for the money, British Journalism Review, 10(4) (1999), 16–17. 16 Bob Burton, Inside Spin: the dark underbelly of the PR industry (Crows Nest, Sydney, 2007), 107; Ron Brunton, 'Little more than fiction,' Courier Mail, 28 April 2001; Murdoch appears as a member of the advisory council of the Institute of Public Affairs from 1987 to 2000 in its annual financial statements and reports lodged with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). 17 Shortly before Murdoch joined Cato's board, the think tank had published a book by which argued that 'the popular vision of an approaching apocalypse caused by global warming has no scientific foundation' Patrick Michaels, Sound and Fury (Washington, Cato Institute, 1992). 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