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Well early on he went into partnership with James Packer and the two of them managed to lose half a billion. That takes some doing.
Who's afraid of Rupert Murdoch? The end of an era.
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Big fan of the Donald
Big fan of The Mad Monk too
Only the one son though, the other son is actually pretty good and anything could happen! Fingers crossed
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Pales into insignificance compared with the old man's earlier efforts in 1991 where he was so far in debt that a worldwide consortium of bankers had to write off a fortune in bailing him out; and if just one of the hundreds of banks had held out, he and his empire would have been bankrupted.
Seems to be a theme amongst entitled f}##%s
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Yes, you’d think he might have learned some humility from that extraordinary episode.
How is the nerve of this campaigner claiming Google has to be broken up because it has "overwhelming power"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...-due-to-its-overwhelming-power-news-corp-says
This is the same corporation that has spent its whole existence lobbying for a higher concentration of power.
Unbelievable
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...-due-to-its-overwhelming-power-news-corp-says
This is the same corporation that has spent its whole existence lobbying for a higher concentration of power.
Unbelievable
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It's called chutzpah.
The bit I like, which makes it clear they are interested in their profits and their profits alone, and bugger the public interest, comes right at the end; the break-up should only apply to Google, the mob that out-competes them.
Not Facebook.
Not Amazon.
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Yep, in the race of life, always back the horse called Self-Interest.
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The guy’s a ghoul
The daughter is no fool.
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The samy guy that once owned My Space
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But anywho... they should force all large Australian businesses to use Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp to hawk their s**t... I mean "wares"... and pay him many many munny for his "quality" and "competitive" service.
Smaller businesses can use the advertising arm of Google's* Tensor-flowed deep learned data MOFO machine (even sans Google search engine), that can automatically match a product to a desperate individual and bombard this poor wretch with a two tonne terabyte reminder stuffed into their modem and shot at them at 630 Ghz. This will allow smaller businesses to compete against larger businesses to gain advertising space (where they can be seen).
This will not be socialism, quite the opposite, it will be called divestment "Divestments will work to correct the market structure, by replacing common ownership with separate ownership, where each separate owner has incentives to compete to gain the business of customers"
Commonwealth Bank evil executive - "Duh! Now that Rupert Murdoch is using the word "divestment" instead of "socialism" to force larger and more "competitive" and evil companies to play fair we better get on the "socialist"... I mean "divestment" bandwagon and pretend we're all for being fair on black people. Duh! We will use (sic) diverse people in our marketing campaigns... Stupid sucker population will buy any crap we spin them. Bwah hah hah hah!"
But The Commonwealth Bank hits a snag, in the form of being forced to advertise on the shitty biased government propaganda machine known as Newscorp
Herald Sun
"Black gangs! Black gangs! Oh noes... Black Gangs!"
Commonwealth Bank Ad - "Black people are in our banks!"
Herald Sun target audience - "I'm not going in there ever again..."
*This should be read as Alphabet
Smaller businesses can use the advertising arm of Google's* Tensor-flowed deep learned data MOFO machine (even sans Google search engine), that can automatically match a product to a desperate individual and bombard this poor wretch with a two tonne terabyte reminder stuffed into their modem and shot at them at 630 Ghz. This will allow smaller businesses to compete against larger businesses to gain advertising space (where they can be seen).
This will not be socialism, quite the opposite, it will be called divestment "Divestments will work to correct the market structure, by replacing common ownership with separate ownership, where each separate owner has incentives to compete to gain the business of customers"
Commonwealth Bank evil executive - "Duh! Now that Rupert Murdoch is using the word "divestment" instead of "socialism" to force larger and more "competitive" and evil companies to play fair we better get on the "socialist"... I mean "divestment" bandwagon and pretend we're all for being fair on black people. Duh! We will use (sic) diverse people in our marketing campaigns... Stupid sucker population will buy any crap we spin them. Bwah hah hah hah!"
But The Commonwealth Bank hits a snag, in the form of being forced to advertise on the shitty biased government propaganda machine known as Newscorp
Herald Sun
"Black gangs! Black gangs! Oh noes... Black Gangs!"
Commonwealth Bank Ad - "Black people are in our banks!"
Herald Sun target audience - "I'm not going in there ever again..."
*This should be read as Alphabet
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Gerry Harvey was the same. They feel they're entitled to the whole pie and need to lock everyone else out. It's the only way they make money.
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"The truth is - and we Americans don't like to admit it - that authoritarian societies can work." Rupert Murdoch
Quoted in Jane Mayer's The Making of the Fox News White House.
Quoted in Jane Mayer's The Making of the Fox News White House.
Sky News Australia really news to have its broadcast license pulled.
* they are a disgrace.
People always have argued that commercial interests drove Murdoch's political calculations, but that no longer seems true.
* they are a disgrace.
People always have argued that commercial interests drove Murdoch's political calculations, but that no longer seems true.
Well done! Here's a further suggestion, tell your grub of a boss to shove his Australian coverage up has aging ass.
I bags the one with the Dirty Diggers name on it.
Maybe he can be held responsible for Christchurch.
That tweet is a complete disgrace.
Maybe most alt-right peaceful, but until they recognise and destroy their growing white supremacist cancer they must be held responsible.
Not happy with free speech - cant tell the difference between news & opinion on Fox or the ABC? I pity those who restrict their news sources because some views offend them, so they frequently are ignorant of the other side of a discussion/argument.
Both sides of of politics spin it even when their rusted on followers cant see it.
I struggle to understand the anti-Murdoch hysteria from the far-left, considering I come from a state with no Murdoch daily (we're too classy for it).
But riddle me this - how was the Labor party in power in NSW for a gazillion years from 1995 on, with a 100 different Premiers, if Murdoch's daily newspaper (Sydney's most widely read) is so influential?
But riddle me this - how was the Labor party in power in NSW for a gazillion years from 1995 on, with a 100 different Premiers, if Murdoch's daily newspaper (Sydney's most widely read) is so influential?
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