Rupert Murdoch Quotes

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Rupert Murdoch

Profession : Publisher

Birth : March 11, 1931

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.

Rupert Murdoch

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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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.

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We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

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Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

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I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

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I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

Rupert Murdoch

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

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Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

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Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

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At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

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The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

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You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

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We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

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Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

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The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

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People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

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The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

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We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

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I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better.

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