Word: rupert
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What is it about the ocean and media moguls? Ted Turner, Robert Maxwell and now RUPERT MURDOCH have all made news on the water. Murdoch, an avid sailor, helped Oracle CEO Larry Ellison win Australia's most prestigious yacht race, the Sydney to Hobart. Although he described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom...
MEDIA-MERGER WALLFLOWER OF THE YEAR: Barry Diller. 1994: Tries for Tiffany Network. 1995: Gets Home Shopping Network. Runner-up: Rupert Murdoch...
Once he became Speaker, his adversaries began holding him to the same ethical standards he so righteously enforced as the House proctor. During his first months in the job, the Democrats hounded him for his lavish $4.5 million book deal with Rupert Murdoch, to the point that he settled for a $1 advance, plus royalties. By last spring there were no fewer than five ethics charges pending against him, and now the ethics committee has recommended bringing in outside counsel...
...parties, had settled on a good news/bad news outcome. By a unanimous vote, it cleared Gingrich of three charges and slapped his wrist on three others. And of the $4.5 million advance for his recent book that he accepted, then declined, from the publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, a media magnate with magnate-style business before Congress, the committee declared it unseemly but within the rules...
...will give them a leg up with local coverage, but the head start that Turner has may be insurmountable." ABC will seek to distribute the all-news programming using both cable and direct satellite, as well as new delivery systems developed by telephone companies. Last week, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, complaining that CNN had become too liberal, announced that he too intended to start his own all-news network...