Murdoch Pulls Out of BSkyB Takeover
Jul. 13th, 2011 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purejuiceI've always thought that a certain kind of publisher -- Murdoch and Zuckerman spring to mind, Phil Graham, earlier generations of Sulzburgers and Chandlers -- was mostly about that invitation to the White House dinner.
I think Cameron's backing, and finally saying he would vote in, the essentially toothless House of Commons censure of the BSkyB takeover is what turned Rupe around: he must have that backdoor invite to 10 Downing Street.
His turnaround after apparently having been rebuffed by British society after publishing Christine Keeler's diaries a decade and a half after Profumo had been working to redeem himself, is detailed here, in very interesting archival footage from the Beeb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/01/rupert_murdoch_-_a_portrait_of.html
This is a big day. Something big has happened.
I think Cameron's backing, and finally saying he would vote in, the essentially toothless House of Commons censure of the BSkyB takeover is what turned Rupe around: he must have that backdoor invite to 10 Downing Street.
His turnaround after apparently having been rebuffed by British society after publishing Christine Keeler's diaries a decade and a half after Profumo had been working to redeem himself, is detailed here, in very interesting archival footage from the Beeb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/01/rupert_murdoch_-_a_portrait_of.html
This is a big day. Something big has happened.
