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Eric Beecher On The Men Who Killed The News
Manage episode 462645689 series 3388035
Crikey’s proprietor Eric Beecher, is a rare combination of journalist, media owner and idealist.
“A media mongrel”, he says his friends call him, at 33 he became the youngest-ever editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, but was wooed away by the most consequential press mogul’s of the modern age, Rupert Murdoch.
But as he tells Tina Quinn, it was a short-lived tryst.
He joins Fourth Estate this week to talk about the dangers of moguls, why press manipulation goes back much further than the Murdoch dynasty, and the future of serious, quality journalism.
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400 episodes
Manage episode 462645689 series 3388035
Crikey’s proprietor Eric Beecher, is a rare combination of journalist, media owner and idealist.
“A media mongrel”, he says his friends call him, at 33 he became the youngest-ever editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, but was wooed away by the most consequential press mogul’s of the modern age, Rupert Murdoch.
But as he tells Tina Quinn, it was a short-lived tryst.
He joins Fourth Estate this week to talk about the dangers of moguls, why press manipulation goes back much further than the Murdoch dynasty, and the future of serious, quality journalism.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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