Research Catalog

Title

The highwaymen : warriors of the information superhighway / Ken Auletta.

Author

Auletta, Ken.

Publication

New York : Random House, [1997], ©1997.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xx, 346 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• A struggle is taking place - not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. All are vying to collect a toll on the information superhighway.
• And as they jockey for control, they tread on volatile ground, as one fixation after another (cable, interactive TV) is dumped in favor of the next (satellite, the Internet). Auletta's access to the principal players is unparalleled (six days with Rupert Murdoch, poker games with Sumner Redstone), and his grasp of the issues - from boardroom politics to regulatory and technological pressures - is unmatched by any other journalist.

Subject

• Businessmen > United States > Biography
• Telecommunication > United States > Biography
• High technology industries > United States > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Diller Peeks into the Future: Intimations of Interactivity -- 2. The Cowboy: John Malone's Cable Kingdom -- 3. The War for Paramount (and Software) -- 4. What Won't You Do? -- 5. Portrait of a Software Giant: Viacom -- 6. No Longer the Son Of: Seagram's Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -- 7. The Consigliere: Herbert Allen, Matchmaker -- 8. Synergy: The Mantra That's Bad for Journalism -- 9. The Referee: The FCC -- 10. Localism Confounds Ted Turner's Global Village -- 11. The Magic Box: Interactive TV? -- 12. The Human Factor: Troubles in Disneyland -- 13. The Beheadings: Successful and Unemployed -- 14. The Pirate: Rupert Murdoch -- 15. The Power of Shame: Bill Bennett Takes On Gangsta Rap -- 16. Jumping off a Bridge: Microsoft, and Michael Kinsley, Enter Cyberspace.

ISBN

0679457380

LCCN

96039714

OCLC

• 36001214
• ocm36001214

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries