Friday 2 December 2022

DENNIS POTTER ON MURDOCH

 






DENNIS POTTER'S WORDS ON RUPERT MURDOCH 

1994

(His last interview before he died. With Melvyn Bragg)

"I call my cancer, the main one, the pancreas one, I call it Rupert, so I can get close to it. 

Because that man, Murdoch, is the one who, if I had the time - in fact I've got too much writing to do and I haven't got the energy - but I would shoot the bugger if I could. 

There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press, and the pollution of the British press is an important part of the pollution of British political life." 

Dennis Potter

Television Dramatist, Screenwriter and Journalist 

(BBC Documentary. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty)