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Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 02:04 GMT 03:04 UK
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Rupert Murdoch: Bigger than Kane
By Andrew Walker 
BBC News profiles unit

To some he is little less than the devil incarnate, to others, the most progressive mover-and-shaker in the media business. Whatever the case, as head of a global broadcasting empire worth £30bn, Rupert Murdoch continues to provoke strong emotions. No-one who saw Melvyn Bragg's dramatic interview with Dennis Potter in 1994 will ever forget it. Potter, who was terminally ill with cancer, yet had lost none of his waspish wit, mused on his life, his work...and his illness. "I call my cancer Rupert," he told Bragg. "Because that man Murdoch is the one who, if I had the time (I've got too much writing to do)... I would shoot the bugger if I could. "There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press." The focus of Potter's hatred - Rupert Murdoch - is now 71, with a new baby daughter by a new wife. He is as ambitious as ever, still planning to expand his business, News Corporation (News Corp), and intent on establishing his children as worthy successors to their old man. From Page Three through the Simpsons and BSkyB to Twentieth Century Fox and digital television, Murdoch has created a personal media empire before which even Citizen Kane would tremble. But, his many detractors would say, Murdoch's success has resulted in the dumbing-down of the media, with quality entertainment and journalism replaced by mindless vulgarity.
'Wheeler-dealer'
Beyond this, they mutter darkly about his emergence as a voracious political wheeler-dealer. Keith Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia in 1931. His father, Sir Keith, was a regional newspaper magnate, based in Melbourne, and the family enjoyed considerable wealth. Even as a child, Murdoch knew his own mind. He was, his mother recalls,

 "not the sort of person who liked playing in a team". " I'm rather sick of snobs who tell us they're bad papers. "

Murdoch lambasts his critics

Groomed by his father, young Rupert was educated at Oxford, where he supported the Labour Party. But, aged just 22, Sir Keith died and Murdoch returned to Australia to take charge of the family business. "My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different," Murdoch recently told one interviewer. Taking charge, not of his father's more prestigious titles, but of the Adelaide News, a loss making newspaper based in the provinces, Rupert Murdoch began his spectacular rise.
'Sleaze'
Soon he had expanded his legacy into a nation-wide business, encompassing newspapers, magazines and television stations. He also found time to found Australia's first national newspaper, the Australian. Even then, he was accused of peddling sleaze. He responded with typical directness. "I'm rather sick of snobs who tell us they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no-one else wants," he said

" Probably the bravest deal-maker the world has ever known. "
Andrew Neil

1968 brought a major breakthrough, when Murdoch beat Robert Maxwell to buy London's News of the World. He later incorporated the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times into his News International group. It was the Sun which introduced bare breasts to the breakfast table and which, during the 1982 Falklands conflict, provided history's most infamous headline. GOTCHA!, screamed the paper's front page after the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser, General Belgrano, to huge outrage. As Charles Foster Kane once put it: "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough". Murdoch went from strength to strength. Moving to New York in the '70s, he snapped up, and revitalised, both the New York Post and New York magazine. But it was the 1980s which, in many people's minds, defined Murdoch. Leaving Fleet Street for good, he re-located to Wapping in London's East End, refused to recognise unions and sacked 5000 workers. Vowing to "shock people into a new attitude", Murdoch fought a year-long battle which, though eventually victorious, made him into a bogey-man for many on the left. But Andrew Neil, his former right-hand man at the Sunday Times and Sky Television, called Murdoch "probably the most inventive, the bravest deal-maker the world has ever known". Profits from Murdoch's lower-cost newspaper empire offset the losses he accrued at Sky Television, allowing him to buy the rights to Premiership football and revolutionise the sport, to many people's disgust.
Global reach
But it is the United States which has proved Murdoch's happiest hunting ground. He even became a US citizen in 1985 to comply with the country's media ownership laws. As owner of Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox television network, he has been responsible for both the Simpsons and the feature film, Titanic. The Dirty Digger of popular repute now enjoys a global reach, using a sophisticated system of communications satellites to reach his audience, whether in Baltimore, Basingstoke or Beijing. Domestically, though, Murdoch's life has been complicated, to say the least. After a short-lived early marriage, he and his second wife, Anna, divorced in 1999, after 31 years. Three weeks later, he married Wendi Deng, a Chinese-born News Corp executive. He was 68, she 32. Their child, Grace, was born in November 2001. Strangely for a man who despises the aristocracy and praises meritocracy, Murdoch has shamelessly promoted three of his four grown-up children to run his companies. Though his daughter, Elizabeth, left Sky Television to pursue her own dreams, sons James and Lachlan remain poised to take over from their father, whose recent brush with prostate cancer caused tremors in financial markets. Whether pronouncing on New Labour (he is broadly in favour) or on the Euro (he is firmly against British participation), Rupert Murdoch continues to live up to his billing as a press baron. An early apostle of digital broadcasting, Murdoch entered the internet business just as the smart money left town. It is clear that he still sees plenty of dragons ripe for slaying. With no intention of retiring, Rupert Murdoch's many fans and enemies may well have to put up with the Digger for some time yet.

Hi I'm Mr Wijat, my Team and  I have followed Rupert Murdoch from Australia to keep an eye on his and help provide alterative news, information, music, entertainment  to the profitable junk news Rupert and his gang at News Cort provide..... and it is all for free.....no news toll boths for me...or you.....
To much annoyance to my old Australian friend and media foe, Rupert Murdoch, I own the Australian Weekend News newspaper masthead in Australia, and when I asked Rupert ten years ago if he was to come into partnership with me in a real fair dimkin Aussie Newspaper, the Australian Weekend News, that stands up for the agerage digger and  is not afraid to print the truth...no matter how it upsest the pollies and powerbrokers.....Rupert's answer was to threaten to sue me and  my Team with supreme and Federal Court writs, because he said he owned the word Australian, as he has the Australian Newspaper and I was not allowed according to Rupert to have a newspaper with the word Australian in it without Rupert's permission.  I sent a fax to Rupert that night with a copy of a draft front page article to be printed on the front page of my Australian Weekend News, newspaper the next weekend, which had the headline, 

         Rupert Murdoch sues Mr Wijat over using the word Australian as the title of his newspaper the Australian Weekend News
The article went on to say that Rupert Murdoch was demanding that Mr Wijat immediately remove the word Australian from the beginning of Mr Wijat's newspaper the Australian Weekend News...because Rupert Murdoch says he owns the wird Australian, even though he has become an American and dumped his Australian citizenship to take over the USA media world and finance this ambition with the $500 billion a year profits Rupert makes from his Australian newspapers, instead of spending this profits back in Australia, improve the well being of the hard working Australian people from whom he makes this money each year..Rupert' murduch was also trold to use some of his billions to pay his lawyers at the time Balke and Waldron to prepare all the legal actions claiming the word Australian belongs to Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp Media Group, and Mr Wijat would be around in the morning to personally collect his copies of the writs so he could then use them as a basis for this planned article in the next weekend's edition of Mr Wijat's Australian Weeklend News... the writs as promised by Rupert Murdoch never were prepared and Mr Wijat has not heard any complaints form Rupert Murduch or his big time solicitors since about Mr Wijat's use of the word Australian in his Aussie newspaper masthead, The Australian Weekend News...
However, in 2005 when Mr Wijat and his team were ready with  the capital to re-launch the Australian Weekend News Australia wide in evert town and cits in Australia based on the $100 million sale of the Mr Wijat's  seven luxury homes in one street on 200 acres of exclusive development land in the hills of Tallai, known as the Hollywood Hills of the Gold Coast, Queensland, whicch on one side of the street overlooks the beautiful Hinze Dam and on the other side of the street overlooks the city of the Gold Coast which is build right on he Pacific Ocean and the city ....one of Rupert Murduch reporters, Valerie and her husband Mather Jones. who also owned a house in the same street, worked with under instructions from Rupert Murdoch and his all powerful News Corp to corrupt estate agents, corrupt business people, corrupt valuers and corrupt police, even heavies to scare Mr Wijat, his family and his freinds, to destroy Mr Wijat's $100 million equity in his properies to make and to make sure the $100 million sale of the properties did not complete. Rupert Murdoch and his all powerful News Corp  had $500 billion in media assets to protect and could not afford Mr Wijat to re-launch the Australian Weekend News Australia wide using the expected $100 million from the sale of his properties to finance the newspaper re-launch and the finalisation of the take over of a publicly listed  company  listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, as a vehicle to run the Australian Weekend News and finance it's future operations and development into a more honestly and fairly run  world wide media group under the name International News Limited, a company Mr Wijat owned in Australia. So Mr Wijat has now followed Rupert Murdoch gtot he USA and now has a company regsitered in the same USA state as News Corp is registered in called International News Limited. Mr Wijat is had made available at the ocst of $10 a year for anyone to reguster their own website, and as well get free easy to use webdesign softare so that even dummies like Mr Wijat can build a website, and also have five free pages hosting on the Web...all for $10....that way anyone can build and host their own website about their pet subject, news, hobby or business, or social networking web sites, they can even build their own news website which mr Wijat will help them promote and their partner with google to provide the adds to put on their website and that way make a permanent income for themsleves..all starting with $10...


Mr Wijat is the only guy in the world prpeared ot stand upto Rupert Murdoch.,
who according to Forbes, is the seventh most powerful perosn in the world,
however in reality if Rupert Murdoch gets control of the Britains BBC, which Rupert will do if David Cameron and his Tory Party
get into power at the 2010 UK elections, t
here is no doubt that will make Rupert Murdoch the most powerful man in the world...
no one will stop Rupert then.. except Mr Wijati and His Team.....

Mr Wijat is never afraid to take on the most powerful pollies, powerbtokers, business people, police, judges, magistrates...etc on fact anyone in power that is not using that power of the right, honest , moral and reasonable way........

In fact the  most powerful, the more rich and well connnecte dthey are the more Mr Wijat likes taking them on......Mr Wijat likes the challenge...

Mr Wijat  is just there for the ordinary person that needs support when they are being pushed around by powerful people....in a wrongful way..

if anyone wants to write to Mr Wijat about any subject whatsoever,
even Rupert you can write to Mr Wijat and put your point of view as to what has been said above about you and your powerful media group News Corp..

Mr Wijat's  favourite email address is his Google Mail one,
because it has all the best email features int the world with uo to 20 megabites of attachment space and
a great editing and speel check facility as Mr Wijat is not the best speller in the world...  

Email: mrwijat@gmail.com