The highwaymen
Subtitle: warriors of the information superhighway
By: Ken Auletta.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.; Telecommunication -- United States -- Biography.; High technology industries -- United States -- Biography.
Description: A struggle is taking place - not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. All are vying to collect a toll on the information superhighway.

And as they jockey for control, they tread on volatile ground, as one fixation after another (cable, interactive TV) is dumped in favor of the next (satellite, the Internet). Auletta's access to the principal players is unparalleled (six days with Rupert Murdoch, poker games with Sumner Redstone), and his grasp of the issues - from boardroom politics to regulatory and technological pressures - is unmatched by any other journalist.