@RizomaSchool 2/ As a hack, barely an adult, I found myself lurking around the innermost sanctums of the highest reaches of global political economy and this, in the media capital of the world. In my mid-20's, savvy, but in defeated and devastated disarray, I cut and ran from the Corruption.
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And she and Rupert Murdoch were in cahoots. In London, he owned the most-read English-language newspaper in the world ("VOTE TORY THIS TIME" said the front-page headline on the day Thatcher was elected). And by the time I'd entered journalism a couple of years later, he had bought 'The Times' of London and was dismantling Fleet Street in earnest. Editors I knew were getting arm-twisted or fired. I remember marches alongside my office: the anti-Murdoch signs held by the print and journalism unions, soon to be smashed into irrelevancy. It was against this backdrop - the reshaping of the entire British media, economic and cultural landscape in the image of a hypercapitalist ethos - that my particular political, geographic and professional world of concerns - Big Money, Big Politics and Big Media - naturally led me to take more than a passing interest in the trajectory of Rupert Murdoch. I was an investigative financial journalist, after all.
@MassimoFaggioli An aside. The corpse of Banco Ambrosiano's Roberto Calvi was found 150 yards from my London @Euromoney office. Conspiracy theories are what they are. That said, an elder journalist colleague, expertly versed in Vatican finance, believed John Paul I's death relevantly premature.
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