Early Rupert Murdoch Hatchet Job Had Elvis All Shook Up

It took a few days, but other media outlets are starting to catch up to Nashville columnist and Country Music Channel editorial director Chet Flippo‘s amazing July 14 item.

His incendiary “Nashville Skyline” entry has been picked by the Vancouver Sun, the LA Times, and will no doubt reverberate in the coming days as yet another pie-in-the-Murdoch-face. Flippo connects the dots between the media baron’s early U.S. newspaper handiwork in San Antonio and the 1977 book Elvis: What Happened? written by trenchcoat tabloid legend Steve Dunleavy.

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