Power, influence and scandal: Rupert Murdoch's long lasting legacy in the U.K.

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Supporters herald his love for journalism and credit him for saving British newspapers. Critics believe Murdoch debased rather than rescued the industry.

a legacy “of deceit, destruction, and death.”

“He will have been in the office earlier than you in the morning,” said Harri, who was also a senior press adviser to Boris Johnson, first as mayor of London and later as prime minister. “He will have read all the day’s newspapers, and then he would just start wandering round the building asking people questions, whether that was the editorial staff, finance, or people who drove the delivery trucks. He was across the whole thing.

Barnett, a Murdoch critic who is on the board of Hacked Off, a group set up after the phone-hacking scandal that campaigns for press regulation. But there are plenty others, including former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said Friday that Murdoch had “done enormous damage to the democratic world” — particularly the U.S. — and accused him of pedaling “anger-tainment.”

 

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