News Corp’s techniques go well beyond standard robust journalism into character assassination — and even vendettas lasting years.
You’ll know when News Corp is coming for you. Your phone will light up, and your social media feed will go crazy. If you’re lucky, a reporter at one of Murdoch’s tabloids will ring you for comment to balance whatever story they’ve already written. But you shouldn’t count on it — when you’re in News Corp’s crosshairs, things can move fast.
In our book, Getting Murdoched, published this week, we outline 50 cases in which people were subjected to editorial abuse by Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.