Word: murdochs
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...RUPERT MURDOCH, CEO, News Corporation
Cynics will claim that Anna Murdoch's first novel, which bears the dedication "For K.R.M.," was helped into print by the name hiding behind those initials. The fledgling author's husband happens to be Keith Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born press baron whose empire now includes a movie studio and may soon ex tend to a string of independent TV stations in the U.S. But the cynics in this case will be wrong. In Her Own Image would have found a willing publisher if it had been written by someone without an influential spouse to her name. It has most...
...IMAGE by Anna Murdoch Morrow; 225 pages...
...growing more gaga and malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit, along with her son Alex and her still smoldering passion for Liz's husband. Naturally, family feuds overshadow all those exotic wallabies, kangaroos and kookaburras. But not before Murdoch turns a few deft landscapes and some surprisingly sympathetic portraits of the men trapped in a female fantasy...
Some analysts agree. "Revenues are growing faster than costs," notes Morgan Stanley's Sarah Simon. (After-tax profits for the past six months were up 18%.) Still, Murdoch faces increasing competition. A multichannel provider called Freeview has won 5 million customers in Britain in little more than two years, while cable operators NTL and Telewest recently launched video-on-demand services that challenge Sky's movie business. F & C's Hayes notes that a share buyback launched by Sky in November could lead to "creeping control" of Sky by News Corp. That's just the sort of worry that rankled...