Full Description
In a razor-sharp witty memoir Jonathan Miller pulls back the curtain on Murdoch, media, tech and the news in a way that is bound to provoke debate.
The young Jonathan Miller had an innate talent to annoy authority as a pupil at Bedales school. When he discovered that the news can be like a hand grenade, he had found his calling.
In pursuit of creating a stir, he ended up in many different places, from Rupert Murdoch's tech adviser and disruptor-in-chief, to war reporting in Kosovo, the UK's first news site, Piers Morgan's Uncensored and bare-knuckle reporting on the follies of rural Britain.
These spiky confessions trace through the Murdoch empire's secrets, the tech revolution that preceded the web, Bart Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, the doomed fate of wokeness, and trouble in an era flattened by AI. Tech and the media world will never look the same...
Contents
1 'I'm Not Interrupting You—Am I?'
2 Shock of the News
3 The Art of Trouble
4 Newspapering
5 The Sticks
6 Vile Snakes
7 Insurrections
8 The Biggest Gamble
9 Making Mischief
10 Camden Lock
11 Fired
12 The European
13 War
14 A Spy
15 Animal Farm
16 Exile
17 Surely Not the Royals
18 Homage to Catalonia
19 Rescued by Macron
20 The Naked Emperor
21 Coffee House
22 My War with the BBC
23 Believers
24 The Trillion Dollar Brain
25 The Hand that Feeds . . .
26 Controlling the Present
27 The End of the News Machine?
28 Advice to Troublemakers
After the Binge
Endnotes
Index
