July 2011
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Rupert Murdoch's Giggle
An example of what he used to be able to get away with. From Woodrow Wyatt’s diaries:
Wednesday 1 October [1986]. A message to speak to Downing Street urgently. The Prime Minister wanted me to know before the official announcement that Duke Hussey was to be the new chairman of the BBC … I was shattered.
… Rupert rings in a great state: ‘Has she gone mad? What a disastrous...