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Media moguls make mayhem The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer Harper Collins...
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times ...based on the careers of Rupert...and take over the family...subsequent career, he will...ship and ended up ashore...told his British captors all...Journalism, as he saw it, was...give way to sex, drugs ...

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