Monday, July 18, 2011

FOUNDING MURDOCH NEWSPAPER WENT WEST AT FRACTURED FLICKERS




In a blast from the past, Little Darwin's ephemera collection presents theatre pass outs that advertised the now defunct Adelaide News, which Rupert Murdoch inherited on the death of his father, the beginning of his amazing rise to global media power. Sir Keith Murdoch took control of The News in 1951. Rupert Murdoch later closed The News and many of its journalists moved to the The Advertiser, where the Northern Territory News is now made up under the hub system of centralised production. Adelaide theatre pass outs of this era also contained adverts for Tandy's Society Box chocolates of distinction. It could be said the Murdochs are now the centre of a horror movie festival and their soft centres are melting as if seated in the Sahara watching Citizen Kane with a Harrod's picnic basket full of rich Swiss,Cayman Islands, Bermuda , British Virgin Islands and Carribean almost zero tax choccies .