About the book:Since his arrival in Australia from the United States in the early 1960s, Gerald
Stone has been at the forefront of Australian news media from working on such
legendary programs as This Day Tonight to founding executive producer of
60 Minutes.
His career has spanned the glory days of free-to-air
television and made him an intimate of the most famous names in the industry –
whether proprietors such as Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch, or stars such as
Jana Wendt, Ray Martin, George Negus and Richard Carleton.
My thoughts:
I've read a few of Gerald Stone's books before and enjoyed them. But I was a little disapointed by this one. Not because it wasn't interesting, but I had the feeling I'd heard it somewhere before which probably had. A large chunk of Stone's career was at Channel 9 and this had been covered before in Compulsive Viewing and Who Killed Channel 9? But otherwise a good read.

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