Media /// Forward

To Murdoch, even the word tabloid is misunderstood. “Tabloid” in the Murdoch context is an idea of immediacy, sharpness, efficiency and emotion — it’s news at its most visceral and powerful and entertaining. …

“Tabloid” in the modern U.S. context — to most people at the Journal, certainly — is about celebrities and gossip. It’s faux news. …

But Murdoch is, more accurately, not a modern journalist but the last representative from an era when a newspaper was its very own advertisement, when it had to sell itself.

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Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News

For me, this is an important revelation about Rupert Murdoch’s mindset.

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