Eric Beecher’s book examines how media moguls have abused their power and manipulated the truth
, the gestation was 10 years. The tricky thing, especially when a book deals with elements of contemporary culture, is that the world you are describing will not stand still. As author, journalist and publisher Eric Beecher admits in the afterword to this authoritative and meticulous volume, “When I first began to think about writing this book, a decade ago, its central premise was uncomplicated.”
He goes on to make this case through an encyclopaedic accumulation of anecdote and evidence. What fills the bulk of these pages is an assiduously researched and brightly written account of news media owners and their exercise of “insidious editorial power”.
Murdoch senior’s office is the scene for one of the book’s best and most telling anecdotes, told by a formercopy boy who took in his boss’ tea during a meeting with then prime minister, Joseph Lyons. “I put the tea down on the big desk and went out through the door. As I went through it, I turned and there, with his hat in his hand, like a man seeking a job, stood the prime minister before Murdoch’s desk. As I shut the door, I heard the leader of the nation say: ‘Yes, sir’.
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