Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    1997
    60 min
    DirectorDavid Munro
    Release Year1997

    Synopsis

    This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and which genuinely reflected its readers' concerns. Pilger asks why the qualities seen in the paper prior to the 1970s are no longer apparent, examining the contraction of the press following the Sun's symbolic move to Wapping, coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, the fate of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, and the stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch.

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