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very disappointed with him. he was very, very much a loner and didn t have a lot of friends. but he was a very, very keen gambler, and on several occasions escaped the school to go to the horse racing carnival in melbourne. he did it several times before he was caught. one got the impression that he simply didn t want to be there. when i went to university in england, i felt myself very undereducated or certainly behind. i did long there to help rupert to prove worthy of his father. at oxford, rupert is quite gregarious. he drives a flash car. he gambles and he s kind of flirting with labour socialism, maybe even marxism. the news from oxford that rupert was a member of the
is one of complete shock. toward the end of his life, keith had been doing all he could to try and bed down a foundation for rupert. but there was a significant amount of debt to the estate. when sir keith dies, rupert is at the other side of the world. and to get back, the quickest way is to come back to sunderland flying boat. and even that takes three days. and by the time we re finally gets home, his father s body is in the ground. he misses the funeral. it had to be a devastating moment for young rupert, who d spent his whole life trying to please his father. more to the point, his mother exceeds to the advice or demands of sir keith s fellow directors at the herald and the weekly times and basically sells them
prudence. the marriage starts to dissipate. rupert s distracted and he meets anna torv in one of his newsrooms. anna torv was a reporter on the daily mirror. she was a beautiful, beautiful young woman. striking, lovely. anyway, rupert thought so. he gets divorced and then some months later, he marries anna. rupert s always driving forward. he has this extraordinary ability to just move on and to discard people. rupert murdoch is a man regarded by many as having the golden touch. one thing his father had tried to do was build a national chain. and rupert sets out and he invents a national newspaper, the australian.
if you start turning the dial down market, the circulation or the ratings go up. he understands what sells sex and murder and blood and mayhem. immediately, the london media types see murdoch as this complete animal who s blown up all their traditions. murdoch sees them as stuffy, calcified, elitist. this is invariably a liberal elite. rupert has always operated from an incredibly privileged perch, but that has not prevented him from feeling a sense of outsiderishness and aggrievement. his sense of alienation speaks to every working class brit who knows they ll never be accepted by these people. so he invents a new language for them. it s articulating the passions of an audience that