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...talk to his staff and constantly reminisces about his days as a foreign correspondent in Russia and Africa. The reporter without a moral compass (Judith Miller, of WMD fame) gets caught plagiarizing Tolstoy. There is even a hard-driving and swashbuckling rival publisher named Lester Moloch (modeled on Rupert Murdoch). There are countless reporters and editors with their own bizarre tics or traits. The murder was clearly a clever inside job. More, I will not give away...
...maybe moot can too. This year he spoke at conferences at Yale and MIT. He's even ready to reveal his real name: it's Christopher Poole, he tells me. He wouldn't be above cashing out for the right price, which is $580 million, which is what Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. paid for MySpace in 2005. "I try to work Murdoch into any interview I give," he says. "Rupert Murdoch? moot@4chan.org...
...good tips from the clutch of eminent British historians - David Cannadine, Martin Gilbert, Andrew Roberts and Simon Schama - whom Brown invited to Downing Street to join the President and First Lady for a hearty dinner of pea soup and roast beef. Another guest at the dinner, Rupert Murdoch, could also have offered sage advice. He presides over a media empire that has burnished some reputations and savaged others...
...anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk.' RUPERT MURDOCH, chairman of News Corp., on U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, predicting the Democrat's victory in November...
Sources say that Brauchli tried to find a middle path between the paper's traditionalists and Murdoch's new vision for the paper...