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RUPERT MURDOC | Infotainment Video | Series: The Greats | 5 Minute Biography |  Video description: This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature Rupert Murdoc. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world. Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian), in the US (The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post), book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through the Fox Corporation). He was also the owner of Sky (until 2018), 21st Century Fox (until 2019), and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022, Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine.  About TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: Welcome to Trendest Infotainment, your ultimate destination for a diverse range of content that educates, entertains, and inspires! From in-depth celebrity biographies and fascinating history videos to the latest in science and technology, we bring you an expansive collection of infotainment videos. Explore the stories of legendary sports personalities, dive into the history of the World Wars, marvel at wildlife documentaries, and enjoy our informative and funny shorts. There’s something for everyone on Trendest Infotainment!  Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@UCvtG20NOq0X7l7ru-z1yBhw   #Infotainment #Documentaries #HistoryVideos #ScienceAndTech #CelebrityBiographies   Follow Trendest Media:  • YouTube:  1) TRENDEST MOVIES: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_MOVIES_ENGLISH  2) TRENDEST KIDS: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_KIDS  • Instagram:  TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.instagram.com/trendestinfotainment/  • Facebook: TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.facebook.com/TrendestInfotainment/  COPYRIGHT:  We hold the proper licenses for all videos published on YouTube. For any questions, please contact: mail@trendest.in  AYA Media Private Limited & TRENDEST Media Private Limited are companies registered under the laws of India and located in the state of Kerala, India.

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00:29So no other human being in the world has been able to touch the lives of as many people as Rupert Murdoch.

00:36Whether it is pure entertainment like The Simpsons, one of my favourite shows,

00:41or serious information like The Times of London, or anywhere in between,

00:46Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is providing the cutting content which today gives us so many choices.

00:54And as we have heard many times this evening, communication is the key to making our world a better place,

01:00and nobody knows how to communicate more effectively on such a huge scale than Rupert.

01:06Receiving a humanitarian award from actor Nicole Kidman in 2005,

01:12Rupert Murdoch showed no sign of the ruthless business sense that has made him the world's most powerful man.

01:18But the media mogul once declared,

01:20I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years

01:26without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

01:30Although he studied at Oxford and worked briefly on Fleet Street in the 1950s,

01:34Murdoch's Australian roots made him an automatic outsider to the British establishment.

01:40He left Britain and returned to Australia in 1953 to take over the family media business following his father's death.

01:47Murdoch quickly built up the company's holdings and became notorious and hugely successful

01:53by applying English tabloid techniques to Australian newspapers.

01:57In 1968 Murdoch expanded his reach to England and bought the News of the World, a sensationalist Sunday rag.

02:05The following year he added daily newspaper The Sun to his portfolio.

02:10The 1960s were a time of personal reinvention for Murdoch.

02:14He divorced first wife Patricia, with whom he had a daughter,

02:17and married Anna Torv, a cadet journalist from one of his Australian newspapers.

02:22Rupert and Anna had three children together, who became the heirs apparent to the Murdoch empire.

02:28In the 1970s Murdoch gained a toehold in the US market by acquiring a Texas daily

02:34and founding The Star, a trashy supermarket tabloid.

02:38This paved the way for his purchase of the influential New York Post daily newspaper.

02:44Under Murdoch's ownership, the Post changed from liberal to conservative

02:48and adopted the tacky tabloid tactics that had proved so successful at Britain's Sun newspaper.

02:54The most famous example of this was the Post's 1983 headline,

02:58Headless Body in Topless Bar.

03:01Murdoch showed the world's media there was no depth to the public's appetite

03:05for salacious gossip and sleaze, and his empire continued to expand.

03:10Murdoch's broadcast holdings include Britain's B-Sky-B satellite network,

03:15America's Fox Broadcasting Company, and Asia's Star TV.

03:21Star's purchase meant Murdoch could make inroads on the market

03:24he considered the world's most lucrative, China.

03:28Murdoch has also shown a taste for quality media,

03:31buying Britain's famous Times broadsheet in 1981.

03:35I am not seeking to acquire these papers in order to change them into something entirely different.

03:41I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

03:47This new undertaking I regard as the most exciting challenge of my life.

03:52In the years since, the Times has been criticised for going down market

03:56by covering celebrity stories normally left to its tabloid cousins.

04:00But undeterred, Murdoch added the prestigious Wall Street Journal

04:04to his blue-ribbon media portfolio in 2007.

04:08In 1999, Murdoch raised a few eyebrows by divorcing Anna and marrying Wendy Dang,

04:14a Chinese-born Star TV vice-president 38 years his junior.

04:19The couple has since had two daughters,

04:22which has caused some uneasiness regarding the line of succession within the family business.

04:27But Murdoch shows no sign of slowing down

04:29and continues to wield power and influence throughout much of the world,

04:33showing it's likely to be some time before anyone inherits his empire.

04:52To Be Continued

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