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
People grab the paper, tear the DVD off and throw away the paper. They've got to learn. That's got to stop.
As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.
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.
The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
[Brexit] it is time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.
These shares don't carry rights and requirements. On the other hand, John's a friend and always would be welcome on our board.
The sky is the limit, ... Certainly we would see revenue over $US500 million (and) we would hope $US1 billion. But it will probably be somewhere in between there.
And, while we faced comparisons to a record quarter year ago at our film studio, we released a number of successful films this quarter each of which should generate strong returns later this fiscal year when distributed in home entertainment.