Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch /ˈmɜːrdɒk/, AC, KCSGis an Australian-born American media mogul. His father, Keith Arthur Murdoch, had been a reporter and editor and a senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952 Keith Rupert Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth11 March 1931
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryUnited States of America
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
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.
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.
I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.