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Some reflections on Rupert Murdoch.(Devine)(Biography)

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| October 01, 2007 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IT WILL TAKE five to ten years for Rupert Murdoch to make and leave his mark on his new acquisition, the Wall Street Journal--that is, to have it supplant the New York Times as the world's most influential English-language newspaper.

Does Rupert, at seventy-six, have time on his side? Probably.

Since, as a youthful, pudgy, unattractively side burned, binge-drinking, cigarette-smoking physical sluggard, he embarked on his first campaign out of Adelaide--to conquer Sydney, amidst derisive cackling from the brutish soldiery of the Packer and Fairfax enterprises--Murdoch has painstakingly remodelled himself physically. His principal residences and ...

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