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Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931) is an Australian-born American businessman, media tycoon, and investor. He is the Executive chairman of News Corp, a worldwide media conglomerate, and chairman of the board of Fox Corporation.
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People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
After all, we are in the entertainment business.
News — communicating news and ideas, I guess — is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
We're both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together
The greatest thing to come out of this [the war in Iraq] for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country.
Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
I have to admit that until recently I was somewhat wary of the [global] warming debate. But I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.
Asked about liberal bias in the mainstream media in (2011)
We have the long-term rights in most countries to major sporting events and we will be doing in Asia what we intend to do elsewhere in the world, that is, use sports as a 'battering ram' and a lead offering in all our pay television operations.
I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love – but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I'm happy
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