Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

Curated knowlege, trenchant insights & witty bon mots

In pursuit of the amazing-if-it-were-true story

Vanity Fair's David Friend about investigating the tale of JFK's now-adult love child. From Vanity Fair: Journalists live to weave stories. Truly obsessed journalists live to weave the perfect story: a narrative laden with human drama or humor or mystery that shimmers with its accumulation of precise detail. And then there are the most obsessed [...]

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Tue, March 4 2008 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

Review of book about Rupert Murdoch squelched by Murdoch-owned mag

The Far Eastern Economic Review developed “cold feet” (its editor's phrase, not mine) about reviewing a book about its new proprietor, global media baron Rupert Murdoch. However, you can be assured it was purely an internal decision. From the NYT: When Rupert Murdoch took control in December of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street [...]

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