Les Hinton

Newspaper lover. Memoir author. Previously CEO Dow Jones, publisher WSJ, exec chair News Int UK. New novel #DYINGDAYS Buy here

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

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[Les Hinton @leshinton]

Nothing like opening a boxful of new books. An updated version of my memoir The Bootle Boy. It’s about scrambling to the heights of one of the world's mightiest media empires & the demonic drive of its founder -- Rupert Murdoch. Out now.
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[Les Hinton @leshinton]

The absence of a hyphen can say so much

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Spelling matters.

[Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker]

“A whole civilization will die tonight” sounds uncomfortably like what the Oracle at Delphi told Croesus of Lydia before he attacked Persia. If we really are committed to the destruction of an entire civilization then we have lost our own.

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

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[Brit Hume @brithume]

This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him. There was no need to say anything.

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

@adamboultonTABB Abundant

[Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker]

It was said of Winston #Churchill that he mobilized the English language and sent it into #battle. Trump’s trick with the mother tongue is to douse it in gasoline, set it on fire and drop it in a dumpster in the middle of his own parade ground. #WSJ

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[Les Hinton @leshinton]

Great read this >>>

[Martin Hinton @MartinFHinton]

The Celebrity Economic Indicator (CEI)

When Clooney’s Hawking Pods, Check the Portfolio. NO SERIOUSLY! Or not.

What celebrity advertising might be telling us about the economy.
#economy #fame #celebrity

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[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Even contemptible men don’t deserve mob justice. Ex-Prince Andrew, once a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, falls victim to a trans-Atlantic moral panic, writes @gerardtbaker
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[Les Hinton @leshinton]

@gerardtbaker They’re not alone. White South Africans had a few years of infamy, but Russians might be the most enduring

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

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[Les Hinton @leshinton]

Interesting, media that most disapproves of Murdoch is giving this @gabrielsherman book so much attention. It’s only 185 pages of text (plus copious Notes, etc) & lifts hugely from other books, including one of mine. What newspapers call a “clips job”. Pretty slender for £25

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Many Murdoch narratives focus on the story of Fox News and Donald Trump, where the dumpster fire really begins to light up the modern sky. But to understand the family’s empire, we might examine the Britain that Rupert Murdoch ravaged in earlier days. https://t.co/YHOHod7lpN

[DOUGLAS THOMPSON @DOUGIETHOMPSON]

‘Studying the Murdochs’ doing much heavy lifting. Interestingly some books credited were also, if better disguised, cuttings jobs. Nothing against that but for £25 expect some shoe leather.

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

Actually 185 pages of text plus copious Notes, Acknowledgements & Index. Pretty slender for a book selling in the UK for £25. Sherman gives credit to the MANY books he relies on, some decades old. In newspaper terms it’s largely a “clips job” plus oft repeated Murdoch hostility

[Tina Brown @TinaBrownLM]

Out tomorrow: “Bonfire of the Murdochs” — the real succession story of the Murdoch empire (already a #1 best-seller). 

Gabe Sherman has been studying the Murdochs for nearly 20 years, and somehow managed to fit their story in 256 pages. 

Read my take: https://t.co/gHrYIonJti

[Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker]

Didn’t especially like Bad Bunny though I suspect I’m not his demographic.But why does every difference of opinion in this country have to be instantly escalated into an existential crisis of the soul of America? The SB Half Time show really isn’t the Missouri Compromise #SBLX

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

“The Epstein files are not gossip. They are not tabloid junk. They read like a moral audit of people who assumed the audit would never come. They don’t just shock. They explain how wealth and status harden into impunity. How we are corrupted by power.”

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[Les Hinton @leshinton]

New ad for my thriller #DyingDays. Critics’ verdict >
Hinton's debut thriller a belter—Daily Express
Super nail-biting thriller—The Sun
Must-read—Financial Times
Thrilling tale—Daily Mail
Awesome debut—Irish Independent
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#thrillers #journalism

[Les Hinton @leshinton]

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[Rob McGibbon ⌨️ @robmcgibbon]

Happy Christmas. Serious Thanks to everyone who has supported The Chelsea Citizen. In 40 years of journalism, this has been the toughest year - but also the most fulfilling.

If I pull this venture off, it really WILL be a miracle in Chelsea - and in journalism! Rob. Ed. 💙