Rupert Murdoch Quotes

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Rupert Murdoch

Profession : Publisher

Birth : March 11, 1931

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

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I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

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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.

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We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

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My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

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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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It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

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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.

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In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.

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If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.

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I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

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Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

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I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

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If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

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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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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.

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It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

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Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

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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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