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  First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Keith Murdoch
Murdoch, who was to ultimately become one of Australia's powerful newspaper magnates, was born in Melbourne in 1885.
Murdoch quickly came to agree with Ashmead-Bartlett's views and when the latter asked Murdoch to carry a personal letter to London, for hand delivery to the Prime Minister Hebert Asquith, and which contained vehement criticisms of Hamilton's campaign, Murdoch readily agreed.
Both Murdoch and Ashmead-Bartlett were saved from the potentially unpleasant consequences of their action by the timely - and powerful - support of British press baron Lord Northcliffe who swung the full weight of his newspapers in their favour.
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  Keith Murdoch
Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885 and was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and the London School of Economics.
Murdoch agreed to hand deliver a letter detailing the mismanagement of the campaign from the British reporter Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett[?] to the British Prime Minister Hebert Asquith.
Murdoch made it to London but without the letter so he wrote his own letter to the Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher in a similar vain to the Ashmead-Bartlett letter.
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 Murdoch, Rupert K.
Murdoch was able to quickly reverse the unprofitable states of these newspapers, and he used the new profits to acquire other media properties--thereby exhibiting the fundamental growth strategy that would come to characterize his career.
Murdoch saw the situation as a rare opportunity to purchase a group of choice television stations in the country's largest markets, thereby ensuring a distribution vehicle for his new studio's programs.
While Murdoch was able to renegotiate the terms of his agreements, which avoided the disaster, it temporarily placed Murdoch in the unusual position of being unable to aggressively expand News Corp.'s holdings.
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 Rupert Murdoch information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Murdoch and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher collaborated during this affair and the Thatcher government provided heavy police protection for the new plant—dubbed "Fortress Wapping" by its detractors—during the sometimes violent demonstrations at the area.
Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan, formerly the deputy chief operating officer at the News Corporation and the publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch's heir apparent prior to resigning from his executive posts at the global media company at the end of July 2005.
Murdoch's voting privileges are not transferable but will expire upon his death and the stock will then be controlled solely by his children from the prior marriages, although their half-siblings will continue to derive their share of income from it.
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 Who is Rupert Murdoch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931), Australian-born American media proprietor, is the major shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the world's largest and most influential media corporations.
Murdoch is generally regarded as the most politically influential media proprietor in the world, and is regularly courted by politicians in the United States, Britain and Australia.
Keith Murdoch was a stern and somewhat distant figure who was reportedly often frustrated by his son's early progress and despaired of him being able to take over from him.
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 Rupert Murdoch Biography
Murdoch wields considerable power with his global media company and is often wooed by politicians to persuade him to favorably cover their campaigns.
Murdoch was born in Melbourne, Victoria - Australia on the 11th of March, 1931.
Murdoch continues to push his News Corporation company forward and is leading the way into the lucrative Chinese market, that has up until now, been out of reach for Western media companies.
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 Rupert Murdoch: Powerful, greedy and fearless - one of the biggest business stars at MondoStars.com
Murdoch was born to a wealthy Australian journalist, Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, born Elisabeth Joy Greene.
Keith Murdoch became Australia's most influential media owner but had little faith his son would be able to adequately take over the family media operations.
Chairman Rupert Murdoch has spent over 50 years with the company, and the Murdoch family is a major shareholder, controlling about 30% of the corporation.
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 The Fifth Estate: Broadcast News: Keith Murdoch and Aunty
The prime minister was Joseph Lyons and the media identity was the journalist's employer, Keith Murdoch.
Murdoch believed Lyons' innately cautious approach to the nation's financial predicament was suited to the dire times.
Murdoch, however, soon realised there were some great opportunities to reinforce the brand of his newspapers through radio, and use his newspapers to promote his radio stations.
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 Beating the censor - The Anzac Landing at Gallipoli | Visit Gallipoli
Suspect though Murdoch's motives might have been, his report on the bungling at Gallipoli cost a general his job, contributed to the decision to abandon the campaign, and confirmed the opinion of the general staff that war correspondents were dangerous meddlers and that it had been a mistake ever to have imagined otherwise.
Murdoch must have realised that almost by accident he was in possession of information that would certainly rank as one of the great stories of the war.
Murdoch went on to London and on September 23, 1915, sat down in a room in the office of the Australian High Commissioner and dictated everything he could remember of Ashmead-Bartlett's dispatch and what Ashmead-Bartlett had told him during their all-night conversation.
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 Rupert Murdoch at AllExperts
His father was Sir Keith Murdoch, a well-connected member of the Australian gentry, working as a journalist and adviser to Billy Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia during World War I, and who became Australia's most influential newspaper executive and media owner, directing The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., based in Melbourne.
Murdoch moved to Britain in the mid-60s, and rapidly became a major force there after his acquisitions of the News of the World, The Sun, and later The Times and Viz, which he bought in 1981 from the Thomson family, who had bought it from the Astor family in 1966.
Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan, formerly the deputy chief operating officer at the News Corporation and the publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch's heir apparent before resigning from his executive posts at the global media company at the end of July 2005.
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 Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch and his father were distant and often at odds, and when the younger Murdoch returned to Australia after his father's death in 1952, he expected to inherit substantial wealth.
Murdoch decided to move into television, but US law mandated that only Americans could own US television stations; thus he was naturalized in 1985, and in 1986 purchased John Kluge's Metromedia, using it to start America's fourth television network, Fox Broadcasting.
Murdoch was reportedly the inspiration for Elliot Carver, the multimedia megalomaniac played by Jonathan Pryce who tried to start World War III in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
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 Keith Arthur Murdoch
Murdoch grew close to several prominent politicians and was a founding member of the Australian Journalists Association which was established in 1910.
Influential with many politicians, Murdoch acted as an intermediary between the Prime Ministers of Britain and Australia and, along with Bean, sought to influence the appointment of the commander of the Australian Corps in 1918.
By the mid-1930s Murdoch had established a national chain of media outlets based around newspapers and commercial radio stations, having already established himself as a strong supporter of the political right.
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 Rupert Murdoch Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Born March 11, 1931, in Melbourne, Australia, (Keith) Rupert Murdoch was the son of a distinguished journalist.
Murdoch's wealth was estimated at $9.4 billion in 2000, but the stock of his Australia-based News Corp. had plunged 33 percent and shares of subsidiary Fox Entertainment had slid 13 percent over the past year.
Murdoch divorced Anna in 1999 and married Wendi Deng, a former television executive.
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 AskMen.com - Rupert Murdoch pics
Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on March 11, 1931, in Melbourne, Australia.
His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a newspaper executive and advisor to Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, while his mother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, is of upper-class Anglo-Irish Protestant stock.
Ever the survivor, Murdoch weathered a potentially catastrophic 1995 legal case that argued his ownership of Fox was illegal, given that News Corp.'s headquarters were in Australia.
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 Keith Murdoch - Definition, explanation
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (August 12, 1886 - October 4, 1952) was an Australian journalist and media mogul and the father of Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1886 and was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and the London School of Economics.
Murdoch made it to London but without the letter so he wrote a replacement to the Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher in a similar vein to the Ashmead-Bartlett letter.
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 Elisabeth Murdoch (senior) Information
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born February 8, 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian media proprietor Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of United States media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
She married Keith Murdoch, 22 years her senior, in 1928, and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952.
Originally designed by Edna Walling, the garden at Murdoch's property, Cruden Farm at Langwarrin, near Frankston (south-east of Melbourne), is one of Australia's finest examples of landscape gardening and is regularly open to the public.
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 Bollyn, Rupert Murdoch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Murdoch and the ADL are clearly trying to marginalize Bollyn, and other independent researchers like him, who use facts to challenge the government's flawed explanation of what occurred on 9/11.
The young Keith Rupert was educated at Australia's fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England, according to Candour (UK) magazine.
Murdoch and the Czechoslovakian-born Israeli commando Frank Lowy, a former fighter in Israel's Golani Brigade, who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, have had a long friendship, which Murdoch recounted during an American Australian Association fund-raising dinner in honor of Frank's son, Peter S. Lowy, in New York on November 20, 2002.
www.iamthewitness.com /Bollyn-Murdoch-Netanyahu.html   (2458 words)

  
 Keith Arthur Murdoch
Murdoch grew close to several prominent politicians and was a founding member of the Australian Journalists Association which was established in 1910.
Influential with many politicians, Murdoch acted as an intermediary between the Prime Ministers of Britain and Australia and, along with Bean, sought to influence the appointment of the commander of the Australian Corps in 1918.
By the mid-1930s Murdoch had established a national chain of media outlets based around newspapers and commercial radio stations, having already established himself as a strong supporter of the political right.
www.awm.gov.au /people/272.asp   (470 words)

  
 Real History and the origins of Rupert Murdoch
Through his wife's connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked.
Murdoch was by no means the highest bidder.
For my part, I myself have always had good personal motives to take a favourable view of Murdoch, because my brother-in-law was easily his favourite editor of The Times, and, when my brother-in-law died (in office), Murdoch treated my sister completely fairly, from a financial point of view, without making the slightest difficulty.
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 Rupert Murdoch and William Kristol: Using the Press to Advance Israel's Interests
It is clear that Murdoch was financially comfortable before embarking on his meteoric rise, as he quickly added the Sydney Mirror and the News of the World and The Sun in London to his expanding collection of media outlets.
Murdoch was a gambler in every sense of the word as he moved into the newspaper and publishing market.
Murdoch always has been known as an opportunistic buyer, and likes to consider himself a "catalyst for change." He is also recognized for what some have called his "special brand of synergy," or "corporate cross-pollination," using his various corporate holdings to publicize and reinforce one another.
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 Rupert Murdoch Biography
His father Sir Keith Murdoch became Australia's most influential newspaper executive, directing the Melbourne-based Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. After his father’s death in 1952, Rupert returned to Australia to take over the running of his business and to inherit a considerable fortune but was left with a relatively modest inheritance.
Murdoch moved to Britain in the mid 1960s and soon turned himself into a major media force after acquiring the News of the World, The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times.
However they were divorced in 1998 after Murdoch had an affair with another employee, Wendi Deng who was 40 years his junior, they married soon afterwards.
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 (Keith) Rupert Murdoch - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Murdoch, (Keith) Rupert (1931– ) US media tycoon, b.
It's Murdoch & son: Lachlan Murdoch is News Corp.'s heir apparent.
Rupert Murdoch is so terrifying that one of his editors even manipulated his horoscope.
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 Keith Murdoch, the Mystery Prop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1972 Murdoch caused a sensation when he was tossed out of the All Black squad then, on tour in Britain, he punched a security guard at Cardiff's Angel Hotel.
Now Murdoch, 55, is wanted as a witness into the death of 20-year-old Aborigine Christopher Kumanjai Limerick, whose decomposed body was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine-shaft near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, last October.
Murdoch made several fleeting visits to Dunedin to visit his family, but otherwise has lived and worked in Australia, mostly operating heavy machinery.
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 Keith Murdoch National Airport Project
In particular, prima facie at least, it is puzzling why the younger generation of Murdochs, who have benefited so much from the media empire he founded, don't do anything tangible about the discrediting of their family patriarch.
If Keith Murdoch is to ever get his rightful tangible recognition it will be thanks to the little people.
And looking back on what Keith Murdoch was like, one thing is clear - he cared about Australians and their security - and personal recognition aside, he would gladly have lent his name to a cause if it would help achieve this objective.
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 Nicole Kidman Keith Urban - wedding, pregnant in 2006, Australia, Fiji
When Katrina Kaif was just his drop-dead beautiful squeeze, they said Salman Khan was squeezing her into ramp shows and also helped to get her some roles in good Hindi movies.
The latest rumors of a Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban baby on the way have been summarily dismissed by her rep, who are now using the excuse that Kidman was "photoshopped", not unlike recent photos of Katie Couric that were revealed as doctored dupes in the blogosphere.
Peres was the guest of honor at a media event held by media mogul Rupert Murdoch in California.
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 Keith Murdoch information - Search.com
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch with Rupert Murdoch and one of his sisters in 1937, departing Melbourne by sea for Britain
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (August 12, 1886 - October 4, 1952) was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch.
On route to London, Murdoch was arrested by French Military Police in Marseille and the letter was confiscated.
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 Keith Murdoch : New Zealand All Black
Murdoch duly made the tour but was affected by injury and illness including having his appendix removed.
Murdoch was again often injured in the 1972 season, but played on the All Blacks internal tour and in the third test against the touring Wallabies before winning selection for what proved for him to be an ill fated tour of Britain.
Many including his team-mates have remained convinced that Murdoch, despite being overly boisterous at times, was harshly treated and he is still spoken of with admiration and respect for what was a considerable natural ability.
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