The highwaymen : warriors of the information superhighway /
Ken Auletta.
Bok Engelsk 1997 Ken. Auletta,· Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Random House, , c1997.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xx, 346 p. )
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | "All of the essays in this work were originally published in The New Yorker in different form"--T.p. verso.. - Includes index.. - Diller peeks into the future: Intimations of interactivity -- The Cowboy: John Malone's cable kingdom -- The war for Paramount (and software) -- What won't you do? -- Portrait of a software giant: Viacom -- No longer the son of: Seagram's Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -- The Consigliere: Herbert Allen, matchmaker -- Synergy: The mantra that's bad for journalism -- The Referee: The FCC -- Localism confounds Ted Turner's global village -- The magic box: Interactive TV? -- The human factor: Troubles in Disneyland -- The beheadings: Successful and unemployed -- The Pirate: Rupert Murdoch -- The power of shame: Bill Bennett takes on gangsta rap -- Jumping off a bridge: Microsoft, and Michael Kinsley, enter cyberspace.. - A struggle is taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is the communications industry. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. The author takes the reader behind the scenes at such companies as Disney, Viacom, Microsoft, Time Warner, and Telecommunications, Inc. He chronicles the vanities and visions of such men as Rupert Murdoch, John Malone, Michael Eisner, Sumner Redstone, Bill Gates, Barry Diller, Ted Turner, Michael Ovitz, and Gerald Levin.
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| ISBN | 0-307-79985-9
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