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
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
I have never asked a prime minister for anything
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
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.
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.
I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.
The current days of the Internet will soon be over.
Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months.
We do recognize the fact that the share price at the moment is rotten, ... There's some disconnect between our company's growth and the share price.