{"id":463,"date":"2007-06-07T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2007-06-07T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:57:00","slug":"rupert-murdoch%e2%80%99s-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/06\/rupert-murdoch%e2%80%99s-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch\u2019s obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>hen (or perhaps if) <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rupert Murdoch<\/span> goes to the great <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">MySpace<\/span> in the sky, the obituary writers will be able to save themselves some time if they dig out <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/TUmartin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kingsley Martin<\/a>\u2019s assessment of British newspaper tycoon <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Harmsworth\" target=\"_blank\">Lord Northcliffe<\/a>.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p>Northcliffe: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>was his own most appreciative reader; he instinctively appealed in the most profitable way to the millions of men and women whose tastes and prejudices were the same as his own. He lived by flattering. He did not educate or change his public in any essential; he merely induced it to buy newspapers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martin didn\u2019t mean it well, but actually&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When (or perhaps if) Rupert Murdoch goes to the great MySpace in the sky, the obituary writers will be able to save themselves some time if they dig out Kingsley Martin\u2019s assessment of British newspaper tycoon Lord Northcliffe. Northcliffe: was his own most appreciative reader; he instinctively appealed in the most profitable way to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}