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. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
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
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. – Rupert Murdoch
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
So long as I can stay mentally alert – inquiring, curious – I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don’t want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I’m just not ready to stop, to die. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families – and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves. – Rupert Murdoch
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
The digital native doesn’t send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. – Rupert Murdoch
Now if you look at the London ‘Times,’ you’ll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about ‘papers.’ We should cut out the word ‘paper,’ you know? It’s ‘news organizations.’ – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure. – Rupert Murdoch
When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got. – Rupert Murdoch
I’m not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. – Rupert Murdoch
I’m a catalyst for change. You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. – Rupert Murdoch