What Rupert Murdoch Owns, and How He Built His Media Empire
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#2If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
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#3If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
Are we excluding religious founders? Even still, in no particular order and not exhaustive: Marx, Freud, Rand, Nietzsche, Skinner, Locke, Socrates, Darwin.
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#4If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
Are we excluding religious founders? Even still, in no particular order and not exhaustive: Marx, Freud, Rand, Nietzsche, Skinner, Locke, Socrates, Darwin.
Many of these people also have the power of durability. We shall see if Rupert Murdoch's legacy endures.
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#5Surprisingly nothing about their subsidiary’s (alleged) paytv hacking operations where they released hacks for competitor’s satellite TV services, and even against some of their own Paytv security products’ customers (to sell them more electronic counter-measures and card swaps).
http://murdochspirates.com/ (yeah, it’s one of the original reporter’s hand-written html and no ssl, but lots of court documents hosted there).
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/murdoch-tv-hacking/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/rup...
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/corrected-update-1-...
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#6If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
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#7If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
Are we excluding religious founders? Even still, in no particular order and not exhaustive: Marx, Freud, Rand, Nietzsche, Skinner, Locke, Socrates, Darwin.
You think? Maybe indirectly, as in those people influenced people to make decisions who in turn made things like political policies but none of these people had the direct popular influence in terms of raw numbers that Murdoch did, I would argue.
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#8If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
Are we excluding religious founders? Even still, in no particular order and not exhaustive: Marx, Freud, Rand, Nietzsche, Skinner, Locke, Socrates, Darwin.
I would say that the real-time nature of Murdoch's power is at least, if not more, unprecedented.
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#9If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
> If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be.
Meta, Alphabet, Bytedance, etc (possibly twitter/x) individually have far greater reach and influence than Murdoch's properties.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are we excluding religious founders? Even still, in no particular order and not exhaustive: Marx, Freud, Rand, Nietzsche, Skinner, Locke, Socrates, Darwin.
You think? Maybe indirectly, as in those people influenced people to make decisions who in turn made things like political policies but none of these people had the direct popular influence in terms of raw numbers that Murdoch did, I would argue.
I mean if direct influence is the metric -- Fox has low millions according to Google. What do you think, 5 million people in a year under Murdoch's "direct" influence? Looks like Taylor Swift sold 4.35 million concert tickets in her latest tour. So who has more influence? Hard to say, in my opinion. We'd have to start unpacking the content of the information being propagated. How much of the information is novel? How receptive to new information is the audience? What is more impactful a news segment or a lyric? Seems impossible.
Or going about this another way, who was more influential: Hearst/Pulitzer or Freud? In my view, Freud flipped the world on its head meanwhile the other two are simply "yellow journalism."