Bad Press

The Fall of the House of Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch ruined my life. I'm not a famous soap star, celebrity, politician, rival company or former employee, so he didn't do it deliberately. I'm a dramatist, so 'Bad Press' will have a dramatic structure, framed by those tumultuous 20 days in July when the News of the World collapsed, and the Murdochs were hauled before Parliament, and the most powerful man in my lifetime had to meet the people's elected representatives. Murdoch senior's appearance before the Select Committee on Culture was like the climax of The Wizard of Oz. The fear was gone: the mystique exposed. The power has begun to evaporate...