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Walter Marsh
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Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire
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“BEFORE WE GO any further, I’d like to acknowledge that we’re meeting on the traditional home of …’ said the emcee at the microphone, pausing for comic effect before delivering the punchline: ‘… the Murdoch family.”
― Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire
― Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire
“You know my feelings already about monopoly,’ Murdoch said. ‘… should WA Newspapers have a monopoly of television as well as the newspapers, it would put Western Press in a tight corner — I have always believed in a split-up if it was possible here’.36 The young man had made many statements over the past three months that had proved to be inconsistent, or inaccurate, even within moments of uttering them. Others, such as his self-serving thoughts on monopolies, and the veiled threat that competition would lead to lower standards, offered a curious glimpse of the proprietor he would later become. But of all the assertions he made under oath in 1958, he saved his best — and most laughably hollow — for Perth: ‘There is no attempt to build an empire or anything like that,’ he said on the third day of the inquiry.37 ‘It would not interest me.”
― Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire
― Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire
“Armand now has a newspaper, television, and radio empire in three continents. Although still in his early forties he has aged sharply. Friends say he is too tense to enjoy it all. They suspect his never-stated ambition is still to regain the Australian papers his father controlled and to add them to his own. Horton Baines was reconciled to Armand and among his many other chairmanships accepted that of the Australian section of Armand’s empire as Armand lives now mainly in America. But Horton never advises friends to buy shares in Armand’s enterprises. As he says, ‘If Armand steps off a kerb without looking, or catches the wrong jet, the shares will go through the floor overnight.”
― Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire
― Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire
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