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Celebrity, money and power: TVs obsession with the Murdoch family dynasty – The Conversation AU
As the Murdochs again hit the small screen in the documentary The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, it’s worth considering: what is our fascination with this family?
Of all the words written about Rupert Murdoch, boring is not one of them. The media mogul has been the object of fascination for six decades, after he followed his father Sir Keith in to the newspaper business.
Family dynasties in newspapers are not new there were the Harmsworths in the UK; the Hearsts, Grahams and Sulzbergers in the USA; and the Packers and Fairfaxes as well as the Murdochs in Australia.
But Murdoch has exercised a particular fascination: the almost irresistible core of a f…
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