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"We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there."
-- Rupert Murdoch
That quote came just before the big hacking scandal that has taken down Murdoch's News of the World newspaper and undermined his deal to take over BSkyB, which I take it would have been bigger in Britain than Fox News in America. Indeed, the article is headlined "Thank God for Rupert Murdoch" congratulating him for the BSkyB deal.
How quickly things can change, eh? It goes against my idea that the rich and powerful get it all their way and can even get away with murder. Appaently, we are not that bad off, yet. There still can be a little too much of that animal spirit.
I was going to use that quote at the top for one of my 'daily quotes' post, but decided against such capitalist triumphalism. Let some one else, some Ayn Randian libertarian blow that trumpet! But now I think it's worth keeping for my blog, heh.
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Never apologize. Never back down. Never lose.
That’s the sort of advice that has long nurtured the super-powerful type-A humans who run the world’s armies and empires. But after nearly two weeks of an unfolding scandal that has set Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation reeling — revelations of reporters hacking the phones of murder and terrorism victims, their families and even British law enforcement and government — such tough-minded philosophies appear to have faded into the distance. Both Murdoch and his son James are to appear before Parliament next week. And in the United States, the F.B.I. is set to open an inquiry into whether News Corporation journalists sought to gain access to the phone records of victims of the 9/11 attacks.
-- Peter Catapano for The New York Times
-- Rupert Murdoch
That quote came just before the big hacking scandal that has taken down Murdoch's News of the World newspaper and undermined his deal to take over BSkyB, which I take it would have been bigger in Britain than Fox News in America. Indeed, the article is headlined "Thank God for Rupert Murdoch" congratulating him for the BSkyB deal.
How quickly things can change, eh? It goes against my idea that the rich and powerful get it all their way and can even get away with murder. Appaently, we are not that bad off, yet. There still can be a little too much of that animal spirit.
I was going to use that quote at the top for one of my 'daily quotes' post, but decided against such capitalist triumphalism. Let some one else, some Ayn Randian libertarian blow that trumpet! But now I think it's worth keeping for my blog, heh.
_ _ _
Never apologize. Never back down. Never lose.
That’s the sort of advice that has long nurtured the super-powerful type-A humans who run the world’s armies and empires. But after nearly two weeks of an unfolding scandal that has set Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation reeling — revelations of reporters hacking the phones of murder and terrorism victims, their families and even British law enforcement and government — such tough-minded philosophies appear to have faded into the distance. Both Murdoch and his son James are to appear before Parliament next week. And in the United States, the F.B.I. is set to open an inquiry into whether News Corporation journalists sought to gain access to the phone records of victims of the 9/11 attacks.
-- Peter Catapano for The New York Times
