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
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.
I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.
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.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
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.
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.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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 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.
Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!
Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.