Shock of the News

Confessions of a Murdoch Troublemaker

Jonathan Miller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78334-286-0 (ISBN)

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A
razor-sharp memoir that pulls back the curtain on how Murdoch won and lost the
crown, and why this is important for the looming AI revolution.

As
Rupert Murdoch’s tech advisor and founder of the leading communications journal
in the US, Jonathan Miller rode the exhilarating first technology wave of the
news with satellite TV that made Murdoch the Elon Musk/Mark Zuckerberg of his
day. But he was also the founder of Britain’s first news website, Camden Lock,
and was a first-hand witness how Murdoch lost the internet revolution by being
unfocused and misunderstanding the nature of the news.

Concerned
about the AI revolution and control passing entirely from the journalists to
engineers, Jonathan wrote this passionate plea about the function of the news
machine and how its important function to shock is being squandered in a
catch-up chase for traffic by old media companies. There is still time to pull
it back if only we understand why news can neither be replaced by AI and what
we need to do.

The
young Jonathan Miller had an innate talent to annoy authority as a pupil at
Bedales school. When he discovered that the news can be like a hand grenade, he
had found his calling. pursuit of
creating a stir, he ended up in many different places, from Rupert Murdoch’s
tech adviser and disruptor-in-chief, to war reporting in Kosovo, the UK’s first
news site, Piers Morgan’s Uncensored and bare-knuckle reporting on the follies
of rural Britain.

These
spiky confessions trace through the Murdoch empire’s secrets, the tech
revolution that preceded the web, Bart Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, the doomed
fate of wokeness, and trouble in an era flattened by AI. Tech and the media
world will never look the same...

Jonathan Miller has worked in the UK, Europe and US as a Rupert Murdoch tech advisor, media founder, Sunday Times leader writer and columnist, war correspondent, and contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post and MSNBC. A Macron-watcher, he currently writes for the Spectator and Daily Mail.

1 'I'm Not Interrupting You-Am I?'
2 Shock of the News
3 The Art of Trouble
4 Newspapering
5 The Sticks
6 Vile Snakes
7 Insurrections
8 The Biggest Gamble
9 Making Mischief
10 Camden Lock
11 Fired
12 The European
13 War
14 A Spy
15 Animal Farm
16 Exile
17 Surely Not the Royals
18 Homage to Catalonia
19 Rescued by Macron
20 The Naked Emperor
21 Coffee House
22 My War with the BBC
23 Believers
24 The Trillion Dollar Brain
25 The Hand that Feeds . . .
26 Controlling the Present
27 The End of the News Machine?
28 Advice to Troublemakers
After the Binge

Endnotes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	230 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	1-78334-286-2 / 1783342862
ISBN-13	978-1-78334-286-0 / 9781783342860
Zustand	Neuware