Shock of the News

As
Rupert Murdoch's tech advisor and founder of the leading communications journal
in the US, Jonathan Miller rode the exhilarating first technology wave of the
news with satellite TV that made Murdoch the Elon Musk/Mark Zuckerberg of his
day. But he was also the founder of Britain's first news website, Camden Lock,
and was a first-hand witness how Murdoch lost the internet revolution by being
unfocused and misunderstanding the nature of the news.



Concerned
about the AI revolution and control passing entirely from the journalists to
engineers, Jonathan wrote this passionate plea about the function of the news
machine and how its important function to shock is being squandered in a
catch-up chase for traffic by old media companies. There is still time to pull
it back if only we understand why news can neither be replaced by AI and what
we need to do.



The
young Jonathan Miller had an innate talent to annoy authority as a pupil at
Bedales school. When he discovered that the news can be like a hand grenade, he
had found his calling. pursuit of
creating a stir, he ended up in many different places, from Rupert Murdoch's
tech adviser and disruptor-in-chief, to war reporting in Kosovo, the UK's first
news site, Piers Morgan's Uncensored and bare-knuckle reporting on the follies
of rural Britain.



These
spiky confessions trace through the Murdoch empire's secrets, the tech
revolution that preceded the web, Bart Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, the doomed
fate of wokeness, and trouble in an era flattened by AI. Tech and the media
world will never look the same...