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...RUPERT MURDOCH by John Heilemann...
COVER: Photomontage by Arthur Hochstein MURDOCH: ALAN LEVENSON--CORBIS OUTLINE; BONO: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE; AGATSTON: BRIAN SMITH; NEELEMAN: ANDREW GARN; SUU KYI: EDDIE ADAMS--CORBIS OUTLINE; KIDMAN: JAMES WHITE--CORBIS OUTLINE; BECKHAM: DAMIEN MAGUIRE--ALLACTION/RETNA; IYENGAR: PABLO BARTHOLOMEW; JONES: CLAY PATRICK MCBRIDE--RETNA; OUTKAST: MATTHIAS CLAMER; VAJPAYEE: KAMAL KISHORE--REUTERS; ARMSTRONG: JONAS KARLSSON; KERRY: DAVID BURNETT--CONTACT PRESS; GALLIANO: ERIC RYAN--GETTY IMAGES; GIBSON: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE; KAUFMAN: SEAN GALLUP--GETTY IMAGES; MANDELA: PETER TURNLEY--CORBIS; BUSH: BROOKS KRAFT; ANNAN: WILLIAM COUPON--CORBIS OUTLINE; NAKATA: PHILIPP HOHNDORF--STARFACE/RETNA; SISTANI: HO; ABIZAID: AFP--GETTY IMAGES; ADRIA: RAPHO; OPRAH: FRAZER...
...often said--sometimes scornfully, sometimes admiringly, but always with a hint of awe--that Rupert Murdoch has exercised more power over a longer tenure than any business leader in the world today. The chairman and CEO of News Corp. is too politic to make such a claim himself, but he tacitly acknowledges its validity. When asked what he has learned about being so powerful in the U.S., he smiles and says, "You make a lot of enemies...
...Murdoch's critics are certainly legion. Most of them are fixated, in this election year, on Fox News and its conservative agenda. But in terms of Murdoch's real influence--not to mention his bottom line--nothing emanating from Roger Ailes' cable channel remotely compares to News Corp.'s $6.6 billion takeover of satellite broadcaster DirecTV. The deal, approved by regulators in December, extends Murdoch's globe-spanning satellite empire to North America; bolsters his strategy of marrying distribution and content; and seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape...
...RUPERT MURDOCH, CEO of News Corp., the same week the firm announced its intention to move its home stock-market listing...