War At The Wall Street Journal By Sarah Ellison Analysis
For Rupert Murdoch, becoming an owner of the Wall Street Journal was not only business; it was personal. He knew that with the WSJ under his control, he could accomplish his dream of destroying the New York Times. (Sherman, 2010) The book «War at the Wall Street Journal» tells a story about big business, an imploding family and a deal that adds up together an epoch of change.
«War at the Wall Street Journal» is a book written by Sarah Ellison, an American writer, and journalist. She spent 10 years working as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal in London, Paris and New York. After publishing the book she was fired and banned from Wall Street Journal's conferences for not working on a specific assignment, however, she argues that it was because …show more content…
There was too much of Sarah Ellison’s opinion about the people involved and it made my experience of reading the book and building my own vision of the characters harder. She reveals her position too much when refers to Murdoch and his friends and co-workers as “robber barons” (Ellison, p. 25) and when she quotes Anna, Murdoch’s second wife, about the recovery of the divorce as “coming out of a deep mental illness.” (Ellison, p.58). Nonetheless, it is my opinion and as everyone has their own perception, they will understand the book messages in the book in a different …show more content…
This book would be perfect for anyone who is interested in journalism or just in the way how a successful business is built. It describes the way decisions were made and why they were made and with the help of this book one can understand why media is more or less the way it is nowadays. Also, this book provides the reader with a clear picture of what the relationships of different important people in the media business are. Furthermore, I find Sarah Ellison’s book very reliable and trustworthy, because of a number of footnotes and sources she provides to justify the credibility of her arguments. To finish, I would like to say that it is a book that gives you some food for thoughts when you finish it. You start to position yourself as an individual in terms of being in favor or not of those in power and what could you possibly do? To my mind, a book is always worth reading if you have something to think about when you are done with
«War at the Wall Street Journal» is a book written by Sarah Ellison, an American writer, and journalist. She spent 10 years working as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal in London, Paris and New York. After publishing the book she was fired and banned from Wall Street Journal's conferences for not working on a specific assignment, however, she argues that it was because …show more content…
There was too much of Sarah Ellison’s opinion about the people involved and it made my experience of reading the book and building my own vision of the characters harder. She reveals her position too much when refers to Murdoch and his friends and co-workers as “robber barons” (Ellison, p. 25) and when she quotes Anna, Murdoch’s second wife, about the recovery of the divorce as “coming out of a deep mental illness.” (Ellison, p.58). Nonetheless, it is my opinion and as everyone has their own perception, they will understand the book messages in the book in a different …show more content…
This book would be perfect for anyone who is interested in journalism or just in the way how a successful business is built. It describes the way decisions were made and why they were made and with the help of this book one can understand why media is more or less the way it is nowadays. Also, this book provides the reader with a clear picture of what the relationships of different important people in the media business are. Furthermore, I find Sarah Ellison’s book very reliable and trustworthy, because of a number of footnotes and sources she provides to justify the credibility of her arguments. To finish, I would like to say that it is a book that gives you some food for thoughts when you finish it. You start to position yourself as an individual in terms of being in favor or not of those in power and what could you possibly do? To my mind, a book is always worth reading if you have something to think about when you are done with