Before Rupert

Posted on 5 January, 2016 | Edit

Many public figures are fated to be remembered for a single incident rather than a lifetime’s work (think of Gough Whitlam’s ad-libbing outside Parliament house, or his nemesis’s trousers, forever lost in Memphis). Often, almost perversely, it…

Working for Rupert

In 2005 I was appointed editor of www.news.com.au. In November that year I was invited to attend the News Ltd editors conference in Adelaide, where I was first introduced to Rupert Murdoch.

The editors conference is an annual, or twice annual event held in different…

Rupert Murdoch, better at being a boil in the asscrack of humanity than any of his peers.

I’m sure that Shkreli thought he had the race sewn up, but its not the flashy sprinters who win the crusted goo at the top of the seeping sores of humanity.