Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSGis a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and author. He is a non-affiliated life peer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth25 August 1944
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We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .
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While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
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Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
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The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
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The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
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Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
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Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
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Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
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There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.
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There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.