Virtual Murdoch : reality wars on the information highway /
Neil Chenoweth.
- London : Vintage, 2002.
- xvi, 399 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-386) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Part One Atlantic Crossing -- Chapter One Voltaire's Undergraduate -- Young Rupert Murdoch considers the -- consolations of philosophy, while his party goes -- swimmingly -- Chapter Two The Drunken Sailor -- Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch have a -- boat race and drift outside the buoys -- Chapter Three Wapping's Casualties -- The intercontinental consequences of -- riotous success -- Chapter Four The Party Line -- In which Rupert Murdoch finds salvation -- at a New York soiree -- Chapter Five The Fugitive -- The man who keeps News Corporation's -- secrets has to run -- Chapter Six The Pretenders -- Anna Murdoch muses on sex and the -- summer while the family talks money -- Part Two American Jihad -- Chapter Seven Herb Allen's Porch -- The Masters of the Universe do brunch and -- Ron Perelman thinks he is the clever one -- Chapter Eight The Apple Fumble -- How Gerry Levin and Ted Turner foiled -- the Second Coming -- Chapter Nine Wired -- The High Court learns that someone has been -- listening on the telephone -- Chapter Ten The Poker Player -- Rupert Murdoch declares war on everybody -- Chapter Eleven Divided Royalties -- Newt Gingrich discovers that friendship -- has no price -- Chapter Twelve The Testing of Pat -- Televangelists, gold mining in Zaire -- and the perfect children's program -- Chapter Thirteen Man For All Seasons -- Midnight mishaps by footballers, baseball -- clubs and a large polo player -- Chapter Fourteen The Mouse Wars -- Michael Eisner sets a trap -- Part Three Murdoch's Archipelago -- Chapter Fifteen The Trouble With Tony -- The Prime Minister regrets picking -- up the telephone -- Chapter Sixteen Rupert's Rocket -- The Murdochs encounter turbulence -- but achieve escape velocity -- Chapter Seventeen The Manhattan 'Window -- In which a global media baron discovers he -- has a second chance -- Postscript -- Notes.