Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media EmpireThis is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the life of Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul. |
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Page 8 - Precaution I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Page 11 - ... in Europe at college, and I had enormous respect for him. He was a great journalist who started as a reporter and finally became the chief executive of a company that he built, but was not a large shareholder of. He was able to buy a little paper in Adelaide which he left to my sisters and me. But I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose.