What a surprise by Michael Wolff at the Spectator: Rupert Murdoch’s Secret is that he hasn’t got one. His greatness seems to consist in that he has not aspire to trascend to history books. The immaterial yet powerful man does not seem to care about himself. Good for him.
The media tycoon is a city editor at heart who merely relies on instinct to create and manage his vast empire. No plan, no agenda, just deal making on the hoof. Who would have guess that his empire doesn’t bring order in the chaos.
In Communcation Theory, entropy is a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; R. Murdoch is entropic!