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Rupert Murdoch is a prominent business magnate and media proprietor. Born on March 11, 1931, he is the founder, chairman, and CEO of News Corporation, a global media conglomerate. Murdoch has been a key figure in the media industry for decades, with a career that encompasses various media platforms, including newspapers, television, and the internet.

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“Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.”

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“Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.”

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“I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.”

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“Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.”

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“Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.”

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“People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.”

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“Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.”

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“John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.”

“Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?”

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“We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.”

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“Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.”

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“Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.”

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“I did not come all this way not to interfere”

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“For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.”

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“I have never asked a prime minister for anything.”

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“We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.”

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“I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.”

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“[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.”

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“If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.”

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“If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.”

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“[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.”

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“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”

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“Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.”

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“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”

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“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”

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

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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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“Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial telephone makes it difficult for a state to control interpersonal voice communication; and satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.”

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“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.”

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“I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.”

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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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“I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.”

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

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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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“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”

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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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“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.”

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“I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.”

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“As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.”

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“I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.”

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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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“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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“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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“So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.”

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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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“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.”

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“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.”

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“News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential - and duty - of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.”

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“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."”

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Born: March 11, 1931
Known for: Business person
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