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Rupert Murdoch
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 11
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[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.
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[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.
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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.
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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
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We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
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You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.
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Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!
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To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.
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Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
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We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.
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The current days of the Internet will soon be over.
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While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.
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I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
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I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
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You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
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I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.
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