Rollicking new film Ink makes divisive media mogul Rupert Murdoch into a hero

The suggestion is that Lamb's obsession with sales figures may have led to today's populist media landscape, where nothing is off-limits. But Murdoch himself is portrayed as an almost-innocent bystander. Whenever something salacious is printed in The Sun, it's Lamb who makes the decision to run it, and Murdoch who marches into his office later and demands an explanation. Did he really have so little control over his flagship newspaper's content?

Why frame it like this when we now have decades of evidence to suggest that Murdoch is, in fact, entirely responsible? People change throughout their lives so it's not unreasonable for Boyle's younger Murdoch to behave differently to the one we are all familiar with now, but when there is a clear pattern that repeats throughout a person's life it is simply dishonest to present it as anything else.