Rupert Murdoch.Rupert Rupert, 1352–1410, German king (1400–1410), elector palatine of the Rhine. He was elected German king after the deposition of Wenceslaus. Seeking the imperial crown, Rupert went to Italy. Murdoch * A fact you may not have known, from libertarian lib·er·tar·i·an n. 1. One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. 2. One who believes in free will. [From liberty. Jerome Jerome St. Latin doctor of Church; preeminent biblical scholar. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 185] See : Wisdom Tuccille's new book, Rupert Murdoch (Donald I. Fine, 288 pp., $19.95): "No single individual has ever wielded as much power over the media as Rupert Murdoch does today." More than Hearst? More than Pulitzer? Yes, and by a long way. Murdoch is almost surely the most successful media tycoon in history; his empire, which, in more than one hundred concerns, encompasses movies (20th Century Fox), magazines (TV Guide), books (Harper & Row), newspapers (The Times of London), and television (Fox Broadcasting), is valued at $12 billion. Adjusted to 1990 dollars, the Hearst empire was worth about $700 million, while Pulitzer's was a measly measly said of beef, pork and mutton because infected meat has a speckled appearance thought to resemble measles (1) in humans. See also cysticercus. $300 million. Such comparisons are fundamentally silly, of course, but another statistic statistic, n a value or number that describes a series of quantitative observations or measures; a value calculated from a sample. statistic a numerical value calculated from a number of observations in order to summarize them. strikes more to the heart of the matter: In the two decades since Murdoch moved his operations from Australia to England and then to America, he has increased the value of his holdings 240-fold. |
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