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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. "
Rupert Murdoch
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" At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. "
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" When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right. "
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" The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. "
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" ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit. "
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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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" If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. "
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" Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. "
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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. "
Rupert Murdoch
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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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" 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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" Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet. "
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Past
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
You
Life
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" One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. "
Rupert Murdoch
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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. "
Rupert Murdoch
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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. "
Rupert Murdoch
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Daily
" No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. "
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Language
You
Without
" Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. "
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" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "
Rupert Murdoch
Education
Good
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" The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. "
Rupert Murdoch
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Buck
Guy
" People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things. "
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" In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child. "
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" My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. "
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" No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong. "
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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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" Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. "
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" The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires. "
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