Shock of the News: Confessions of a Troublemaker

Author:   Jonathan Miller
Publisher:   Gibson Square Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781783342822


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 August 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Shock of the News: Confessions of a Troublemaker


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In a razor-sharp witty memoir Jonathan Miller pulls back the curtain on Murdoch, media, tech and the news in a way that is bound to provoke debate. The young Jonathan Miller had an innate talent to annoy authority as a pupil at Bedales school. When he discovered that the news can be like a hand grenade, he had found his calling. In pursuit of creating a stir, he ended up in many different places, from Rupert Murdoch’s tech adviser and disruptor-in-chief, to war reporting in Kosovo, the UK’s first news site, Piers Morgan’s Uncensored and bare-knuckle reporting on the follies of rural Britain.   These spiky confessions trace through the Murdoch empire’s secrets, the tech revolution that preceded the web, Bart Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, the doomed fate of wokeness, and trouble in an era flattened by AI. Tech and the media world will never look the same...

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Author:   Jonathan Miller
Publisher:   Gibson Square Books Ltd
Imprint:   Gibson Square Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781783342822


ISBN 10:   178334282
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 August 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'A bare-knuckle read.' Andrew Neil 'An exuberant romp through the wild west of journalism... A spirited eye and troublemaker.' Sarah Baxter, former Deputy Editor Sunday Times


'A bare-knuckle read.' Andrew Neil ‘An exuberant romp through the wild west of journalism… A spirited eye and troublemaker.’ Sarah Baxter, former Deputy Editor Sunday Times


Author Information

Jonathan Miller has worked in the UK, Europe and US as a Rupert Murdoch  tech advisor, media founder, Sunday Times leader writer and columnist, war correspondent, and contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post and MSNBC. A Macron-watcher, he currently writes for the Spectator and Daily Mail.

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