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Paper EmperorsCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781742234984 Year: 2019 Publisher: NewSouth Publishing Description: *WINNER of the 2020 Colin Roderick Award* *Longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize* 'Prodigious researchilluminating detail.' TheAustralian 'A tour de force.' Professor Rodney Tiffen Before newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force, especially in Australia a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. This magisterial book reveals
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781742234984
Year: 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Description:
*WINNER of the 2020 Colin Roderick Award*
*Longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize*
'Prodigious research…illuminating detail.' —TheAustralian
'A tour de force.' — Professor Rodney Tiffen
Before
newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,
especially in Australia — a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers.
This
magisterial book reveals
who owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield political
power. A corporate
and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, it explains
how Australia's media system came to be dominated by a handful of empires and
powerful family dynasties. Many are household names, even now: Murdoch,
Fairfax, Syme, Packer. Written with verve and insight and showing unparalleled
command of a vast range of sources, Sally Young shows how newspaper owners
influenced policy-making, lobbied and bullied politicians, and shaped internal
party politics.
The
book begins in 1803 with Australia's first newspaper owner — a convict who
became a wealthy bank owner — giving the industry a blend of notoriety, power
and wealth from the start.
Throughout the twentieth century, Australians were unaware that they were
reading newspapers owned by secret bankrupts and failed land boomers, powerful
mining magnates, Underbelly-style gangsters, bankers, and corporate titans. It
ends with the downfall of Menzies in 1941 and his conviction that a handful of
press barons brought him down. The intervening years are packed with political
drama, business machina
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