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Rupert Murdoch has taken issue with a new biography by Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News. The chairman and c.e.o. of New Corporation has raised objections with Wolff and his publisher, Doubleday in the US, about portions of the book that suggest that he is at times embarrassed by Fox News, which he owns, and its chief executive, Roger Ailes, and that he often shares “the general liberal apoplexy,” as Wolff writes in the book, toward Fox News and its perceived conservative slant, reports the New York Times.
Wolff said he spent more than 50 hours, all of which were taped, interviewing Murdoch, beginning in September 2007, and spent time with Murdoch’s children and even his 99-year-old mother, who lives on a family estate in Australia. He said he believed the objections raised by Mr. Murdoch had more to do with corporate politics than with any genuine feeling that these relationships were incorrectly described in the book.