Some tasty treats in this report on Michael Wolff’s speech to the Changing Media summit in London:
he may own movie studios but, really, he’s never, to my knowledge, sat through a movie besides Crocodile Dundee. He doesn’t watch television although he’s the largest creator of television programmes in the world. All of those businesses exist so that he can be in the newspaper business.
Crocodile Dundee? Blimey.
The interesting thing is that no-one else in his company thinks like this. They have to indulge him because he’s Murdoch and that’s the way the company is organised. There’s not a mechanism to really challenge him. It is Rupert alone who is out there waging this battle. The paywall battle - totally Rupert. Up till little more than a year ago, Rupert had never been on the web unaccompanied.
