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" 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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" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

New York

Love

Challenge

" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

" It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. "

" At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. "

" We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done. "

" 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. "

" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "

Rupert Murdoch

Capitalism

" 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. "

" I think everyone's against abortion. "

" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "

" 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. "

" We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. "

" 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. "

" Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Newspaper

You

" 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. "

" We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. "

" Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart. "

" 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. "

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

" The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. "

Rupert Murdoch

Government

Less

" 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. "

" People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged. "

" I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. "

" I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives. "

" The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. "

" I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. "