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Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out At Crafty Biographer [Books]
Posted on October 23, 2008

If it wasn't inevitable from the get-go that Rupert Murdoch would, via tentacles that touch every distribution channel and medium, obtain an advance copy of Michael Wolff's biography of him, it certainly became so when the book landed in the hands of the News Corporation chairman's son-in-law Matthew Freud. Freud got it from a London newspaper negotiating serialization rights, Murdoch got it from Freud, and Wolff soon heard from Murdoch, the Times reported this morning: [The book] contains some extremely damaging misstatements of fact, he emailed, thus playing into Wolff's hands, as he seem...
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