Poster of Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

Plot: This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and which genuinely reflected its readers' concerns. Pilger asks why the qualities seen in the paper prior to the 1970s are no longer apparent, examining the contraction of the press following the Sun's symbolic move to Wapping, coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, the fate of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, and the stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch
Release Date: Tuesday, February 18 1997
27 years ago
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Cast

Portrait of John PilgerJohn Pilger
John Pilger was
57 in Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
as 'Himself - Presenter'.
Mon, Oct 09 1939 –
Sat, Dec 30 2023

Crew

Portrait of David MunroDavid Munro
David Munro was
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as 'Director'
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Portrait of John PilgerJohn Pilger
John Pilger was
57 in Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
as 'Writer'
Mon, Oct 09 1939 –
Sat, Dec 30 2023