The history of The Times. Graham Stewart. Vol. VII 1981-2002, The Murdoch years /
"In 1980, The Times was one of the world's most famous newspapers. It was also in chaos. Losing millions of pounds a year and repeatedly crippled by industrial action, it had been off the streets for eleven months between 1979 and 1980, when its owners finally decided to cut their losses....
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2005.
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| Summary: | "In 1980, The Times was one of the world's most famous newspapers. It was also in chaos. Losing millions of pounds a year and repeatedly crippled by industrial action, it had been off the streets for eleven months between 1979 and 1980, when its owners finally decided to cut their losses. When Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Sun and News of the World, heard that The Times was for sale, he commented laconically, 'I doubt whether there will be any buyers.'" "Months later, it was Murdoch, one of the most controversial media moguls of the age, who won control of the paper in a contentious sale that many feared would see a treasured national institution rescued by a tabloid owner intent on traducing the values that made it great. Starting with that historic moment, this is the history of the power struggles, triumphs and gaffes that shaped Murdoch's Times in the closing decades of an extraordinary century. Behind the venerable facade the paper presented to the outside world, Graham Stewart reveals an institution as divided, uncertain and varied as the news it covered. It is the story of the editors who sought to steer the paper with wit, intelligence, integrity and, sometimes, intimidation. It is also the tale of the journalists who reported, analysed and interpreted the news to a reading public as often outraged as it was approving."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 727 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780007184385 (cased) : 0007184387 (cased) : |