American - Publisher | March 11, 1931 -
Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
Rupert Murdoch
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When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
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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.
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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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Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
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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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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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If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.
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I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.
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My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.
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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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