The power of print
In 1969, Rupert Murdoch entered the British newspaper market when he acquired the News of the World. A year later he bought The Sun. These purchases ushered in an era in which the popular press exerted an extraordinary influence on $ritish life s so much so that 6ony $lair, then leader of the Labour opposition and prime minister in waiting, flew to Australia in to speaM at one of Murdoch’s News Corporation conferences.
But as a new three-part series focusing in detail on the years s relates, /urdochos taDloid papers Decame mired in the scandals highlighted Dy the s
Leveson Inquiry, notably the revelations over phone hacking. Archive material and interviews with key players in the wider story mean that this documentary is detailed and absorbing.