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" I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. "
Rupert Murdoch
Together
Am
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" It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests. "
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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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" Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. "
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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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" The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. "
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" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "
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" A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone. "
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Happy
Newspaper
People
" Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. "
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Everywhere
Technology
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" The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. "
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Digital
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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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You
Up
" My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. "
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You
Years
Start
" 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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Moral
Leader
Values
" You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people. "
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People
Media
Information
" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "
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Capitalism
" We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done. "
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Started
Said
Done
" 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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Open
Top
Society
" People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged. "
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" You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. "
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Own
Turn
You
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Change
Business
Past
" I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life. "
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People
Long
Life
" 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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Shopping
Young
Men
" 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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News
Lift
Information
" When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "
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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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Line
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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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Nice
" Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. "
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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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Business
Because
Support
" 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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First
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" The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products. "
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Service