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Rupert Murdoch: a seven-point plan for rehabilitation in British life
By Jane Martinson
How the News Corp mogul restored public links with David Cameron after the turbulence of the phone-hacking scandal and Leveson inquiry
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Rupert Murdoch's Christmas's party – which drew David Cameron, George Osborne and other ministers on Monday – marks his return to the centre of power, the culmination of a seven-step process that has seen him regain his position at the top of British life:
1 A profession of humility
Psychologists say acknowledgement is always the first step on the road to recovery but it took Murdoch 12 days after the Guardian revealed that Milly Dowler's phone was hacked to take out a full-page advert on 16 July 2011 saying: "We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred". Andy Coulson had already resigned as Cameron's spin doctor in January 2011 but within days of the Dowler revelations, Murdoch closed the 168-year-old News of the World and scrapped his plan to take over the whole of satellite broadcaster Sky. Brooks resigned to face charges and, by 19 July, a surprisingly frail-looking Murdoch told a House of Commons committee that he was facing "the most humble day of my life".
2 A fistful of dollars
In total, News Corp spent $512m (£345m) on the closure of its Sunday tabloid and legal settlements for at least 377 victims of voicemail interception. Nine of the 12 journalists charged with phone hacking were convicted, while public officials were found guilty for accepting payments for information. After an eight-month trial, Coulson was found guilty of conspiring to hack phones, while Brooks was cleared of all charges in June 2014. (Having eventually served five months of his sentence, Coulson is now writing the odd piece for the Telegraph. The newspaper group denies that he is on a contract to advise chief executive Murdoch MacLennan).
3 A job for a friend
From the very beginning of the scandal, Murdoch said his top priority was looking after Rebekah Brooks. Within months of the end of her trial, Murdoch was looking at a range of senior jobs for Brooks, firstly in the US. Initial reports that she would rejoin the company were met with disbelief from senior insiders but, after her husband Charlie was understood to have ruled out a move to the US, Murdoch and Brooks started to think that a return to her old job was the best option. She was reappointed chief executive of News UK in September 2015 and, having spent weeks working long hours in the office, she is only now ready for meetings with her old contacts.
4 Let the authorities complete their work
The biggest fear all along for the News Corp boss was the possibility of corporate charges being pressed for phone hacking. Murdoch had already split his publishing arm, which includes the British newspapers as well as the Wall Street Journal, from the Fox film and television business, partly to protect the latter from any possible charges. In February, the Department of Justice declared that News Corp would not face any charges in the US in relation to phone hacking and payments to public officials, and earlier this month the Crown Prosecution Service dropped all corporate charges against News Corp. However, given the appeals against the decision launched by victims, the final curtain has not quite come down. Although no one expects the government to go ahead with "Leveson part two" into the "extent of unlawful and improper conduct", it cannot confirm this until all criminal proceedings, including appeals, are dealt with.
5 A clear political order
Labour party leaders may have attended Murdoch soirees but the opposition went into the May general election with concern over media domination written into its manifesto. In contrast, the Conservatives' first manifesto promise on the media was to warn the BBC that it would face a licence fee freeze. Osborne's comments about Auntie's "imperial ambitions" reminded everyone that the Liberal Democrats were no longer in government to argue against imposing the cost of free licence fees for the over-75s on the corporation.
Even so, the appearance of Cameron at a party attended by Murdoch and Brooks is remarkable, given the fact that few politicians were as embarrassed by phone hacking as he was. The prime minister's close links with Brooks and the Murdochs – with their Christmas gatherings, country suppers and "LOL" texting – were revealed in some detail during the Leveson inquiry, which he launched in November 2011. It later emerged that he had ignored those warning him against appointing a man who had stood down from his role as editor of the News of the World as his spin doctor. Having accepted Coulson's denials, Cameron said he warranted a "second chance".
Chris Bryant, the former shadow culture secretary and phone-hacking victim, who has recently attended a party at the home of Evgeny Lebedev, said: "There is nothing intrinsically wrong with meeting a proprietor socially. However, I would have thought that Cameron in particular, as well as Osborne, would have learnt from the whole sorry saga that these informal contacts just start to smell dodgy.
"I have always known that, if they won the general election, the Tories would just bide their time before ushering Rupert back through the front door. It was one of the reasons I was so desperate for them not to win."
6 Rediscover the contacts book
Under disclosure rules brought in by Cameron, we now know when he meets interested parties. So we know that Murdoch and senior News Corp executives met government ministers 10 times in the year to the end of March 2015, more than any other newspaper group. Murdoch also met Osborne twice in the month before the chancellor imposed the aforementioned costly financial settlement on the BBC in July.
7 A model relationship
With his sons busy in the US, a new woman has made the family patriarch a more frequent visitor to the UK. Having split with his third wife, Wendi Deng, in 2013, Murdoch happily posed for pictures at the Rugby World Cup in October alongside his new flame, the London-based Jerry Hall, 59-year-old former wife of Mick Jagger.
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Rupert Murdoch
|Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch at Les Misérables premiere in Sydney, on 21 December 2012
|Keith Rupert Murdoch
11 March 1931
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
|United States (naturalized 1985)[a]
|Alma mater
|Worcester College, Oxford
|Chairman and CEO of News Corporation (1979–2013)
Executive chairman of News Corp (2013–present)
Chairman and CEO of 21st Century Fox (2013–2015)
Executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox (2015–present)
|Net worth
|US$12.7 billion (October 2015)[1]
|Board member of
|News Corp
21st Century Fox
|Patricia Booker
(1956–1967, 1 child)
Anna Murdoch Mann
(1967–1999, 3 children)
Wendi Deng
(1999–2013, 2 children)[4]
|Prudence (b. 1958)[5]
Elisabeth (b. 1968)[5]
Lachlan (b. 1971)[5]
James (b. 1972)[5]
Grace (b. 2001)[6]
Chloe (b. 2003)[5]
|Keith Murdoch (1885–1952)
Elisabeth Joy (1909–2012)
|Janet Calvert-Jones (sister)
Anne Kantor (sister)
Helen Handbury (sister)
Matthew Freud (son-in-law)
Sarah Murdoch (daughter-in-law)
|Companion of the Order of Australia (1984)[7]
Keith Rupert Murdoch /ˈmɜrdɒk/,[8] AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch in 1952.[6][9] He is the founder, chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors News Corp and21st Century Fox after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.[10][11][12][13]
In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York City in 1974 to expand into the U.S. market, but retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalised U.S. citizen in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S. television ownership.[9]
In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989)[14] and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in 1990, and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000, Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.
In July 2011, Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularlyhacking the phones of celebrities, royalty and public citizens. He faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the U.S.[15][16] On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International.[17][18] On 1 July 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox.[19]
Early life
Murdoch was born Keith Rupert Murdoch on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne, Australia to Sir Keith Murdoch (1885–1952) and Elisabeth Joy Greene (1909–2012), daughter of Rupert Greene. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. His parents were also born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch was a war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town.[9] Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his maternal grandfather.
Keith Murdoch the elder asked to meet with his future wife after seeing her debutante photograph in one of his own newspapers and they married in 1928, when she was aged 19 and he was 23 years older.[20] In addition to Rupert, the couple had three daughters: Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury (1929–2004). Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School,[21] where he was co-editor of the school's official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal If Revived.[22][23] He took his school's cricket team to the National Junior Finals. He worked part-time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father to take over the family business.[6][9] Murdoch read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford in England, where he supported the Labour Party,[6] stood for Secretary of the Labour Club[24] and managed Oxford Student Publications Limited, the publishing house of Cherwell.[25] After her husband's death from cancer in 1952, Elisabeth Murdoch did charity work, as life governor of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and established the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. At the age of 102 (in 2011), she had 74 descendants.[20] Murdoch completed an MA before working as a sub-editor with theDaily Express for two years.[9]
Activities in Australia and New Zealand
Following his father's death, when he was 21, Murdoch returned from Oxford to take charge of the family business News Limited, which had been established in 1923. Rupert Murdoch turned its newspaper, Adelaide News, its main asset, into a major success.[6] He began to direct his attention to acquisition and expansion, buying the troubled Sunday Times in Perth,Western Australia (1956) and over the next few years acquiring suburban and provincial newspapers in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and theNorthern Territory, including the Sydney afternoon tabloid, The Daily Mirror (1960). The Economist describes Murdoch as "inventing the modern tabloid",[26]as he developed a pattern for his newspapers, increasing sports and scandal coverage and adopting eye-catching headlines.[9]
Murdoch's first foray outside Australia involved the purchase of a controlling interest in the New Zealand daily The Dominion. In January 1964, while touring New Zealand with friends in a rented Morris Minor after sailing across the Tasman, Murdoch read of a takeover bid for the Wellington paper by the British-based Canadian newspaper magnate, Lord Thomson of Fleet. On the spur of the moment, he launched a counter-bid. A four-way battle for control ensued in which the 32-year-old Murdoch was ultimately successful.[27] Later in 1964, Murdoch launched The Australian, Australia's first national daily newspaper, which was based first in Canberra and later in Sydney.[28] In 1972, Murdoch acquired the Sydney morning tabloid The Daily Telegraph from Australian media mogul Sir Frank Packer, who later regretted selling it to him.[29] In 1984, Murdoch was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for services to publishing.[30]
In 1999, Murdoch significantly expanded his music holdings in Australia by acquiring the controlling share in a leading Australian independent label, Michael Gudinski's Mushroom Records; he merged that with Festival Records, and the result was Festival Mushroom Records (FMR). Both Festival and FMR were managed by Murdoch's sonJames Murdoch for several years.[31]
Political activities in Australi
Murdoch found a political ally in John McEwen, leader of the Australian Country Party (now known as the National Party of Australia), who was governing in coalition with the larger Menzies-Holt Liberal Party. From the very first issue of The Australian Murdoch began taking McEwen's side in every issue that divided the long-serving coalition partners. (The Australian, 15 July 1964, first edition, front page: "Strain in Cabinet, Liberal-CP row flares.") It was an issue that threatened to split the coalition government and open the way for the stronger Australian Labor Party to dominate Australian politics. It was the beginning of a long campaign that served McEwen well.[32]
After McEwen and Menzies retired, Murdoch threw his growing power behind the Australian Labor Party under the leadership of Gough Whitlam and duly saw it elected[33] on a social platform that included universal free health care, free education for all Australians to tertiary level, recognition of the People's Republic of China, and public ownership of Australia's oil, gas and mineral resources. Rupert Murdoch's backing of Whitlam turned out to be brief. Murdoch had already started his short-lived National Star[32] newspaper in America, and was seeking to strengthen his political contacts there.[34]
Asked about the Australian federal election, 2007 at News Corporation's annual general meeting in New York on 19 October 2007, its chairman Rupert Murdoch said, "I am not commenting on anything to do with Australian politics. I'm sorry. I always get into trouble when I do that." Pressed as to whether he believed Prime Minister John Howard should continue as prime minister, he said: "I have nothing further to say. I'm sorry. Read our editorials in the papers. It'll be the journalists who decide that – the editors."[35] In 2009, in response to accusations by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that News Limited was running vendettas against him and his government, Murdoch opined that Rudd was "oversensitive".[36] Murdoch described Howard's successor, Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, as "…more ambitious to lead the world [in tackling climate change] than to lead Australia…" and criticised Rudd's expansionary fiscal policies in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 as unnecessary.[37] Although News Limited's interests are extensive, also including the Daily Telegraph, the Courier-Mail and theAdelaide Advertiser, it was suggested by the commentator Mungo MacCallum in The Monthly that "the anti-Rudd push, if coordinated at all, was almost certainly locally driven" as opposed to being directed by Murdoch, who also took a different position from local editors on such matters as climate change and stimulus packages to combat the financial crisis.[38]
Murdoch is a supporter of an Australian republic, having campaigned for one during the 1999 referendum.[39]
Activities in the United Kingdom
Business activities in the United Kingdom
In 1968 Murdoch entered the British newspaper market with his acquisition of the populist News of the World, followed in 1969 with the purchase of the struggling daily broadsheet The Sun from IPC.[40] Murdoch turned The Sun into a tabloid format and reduced costs by using the same printing press for both newspapers. On acquiring it, he appointed Albert 'Larry' Lamb as editor and – Lamb recalled later – told him: "I want a tearaway paper with lots of tits in it". In 1997 The Sun attracted 10 million daily readers.[9] In 1981, Murdoch acquired the struggling Times and Sunday Times from Canadian newspaper publisherLord Thomson of Fleet.[40] Ownership of The Times came to him through his relationship with Lord Thomson, who had grown tired of losing money on it as a result of much industrial action that stopped publication.[41] In the light of success and expansion at The Sun the owners believed that Murdoch could turn the papers around. Harold Evans, Editor of the Sunday Times from 1967, was made head of the daily Times, though he stayed only a year amid editorial conflict with Murdoch.[42][43]
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Murdoch's publications were generally supportive of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[44] At the end of theThatcher/Major era, Murdoch switched his support to the Labour Party and its leader, Tony Blair. The closeness of his relationship with Blair and their secret meetings to discuss national policies was to become a political issue in Britain.[45] This later changed, with The Sun, in its English editions, publicly renouncing the ruling Labour government and lending its support to David Cameron's Conservative Party, which soon afterwards formed a coalition government. In Scotland, where the Tories had yet to recover from their complete annihilation in 1997, the paper began to endorse the Scottish National Party (though not yet its flagship policy of independence), which soon after came to form the first ever outright majority in the proportionally elected Scottish Parliament. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's official spokesman said in November 2009 that Brown and Murdoch "were in regular communication" and that "there is nothing unusual in the prime minister talking to Rupert Murdoch".[46]
In 1986, Murdoch introduced electronic production processes to his newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States. The greater degree of automation led to significant reductions in the number of employees involved in the printing process. In England, the move roused the anger of the print unions, resulting in a long and often violent dispute that played out in Wapping, one of London's docklands areas, where Murdoch had installed the very latest electronic newspaper purpose-built publishing facility in an old warehouse.[47] The bitter dispute at Wappingstarted with the dismissal of 6,000 employees who had gone on strike and resulted in street battles and demonstrations. Many on the political left in Britain alleged the collusion of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government with Murdoch in the Wapping affair, as a way of damaging the British trade union movement.[48][49][50] In 1987, the dismissed workers accepted a settlement of £60 million.[9]
Murdoch's British-based satellite network, Sky Television, incurred massive losses in its early years of operation. As with many of his other business interests, Sky was heavily subsidised by the profits generated by his other holdings, but convinced rival satellite operator British Satellite Broadcasting to accept a merger on his terms in 1990.[9] They were quick to see the advantages of direct to home (DTH) satellite broadcasting that did not require costly cable networks and the merged company, BSkyB, has dominated the British pay-TV market ever since.[51] By 1996, BSkyB had more than 3.6 million subscribers, triple the number of cable customers in the UK.[9] British financier Lord Jacob Rothschild, a close Murdoch friend since the 1960s, served as deputy chairman of Murdoch's BSkyB corporation from 2003–2007, and Murdoch jointly invested with Rothschild in a 5.5 percent stake in Genie Oil and Gas, which conducted shale gas and oil exploration in Israel.[52]
In response to print media's decline and the increasing influence of online journalism during the 2000s, Murdoch proclaimed his support of the micropayments model for obtaining revenue from on-line news,[53] although this has been criticised by some.[54]
News Corporation has subsidiaries in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands and the Virgin Islands. From 1986, News Corporation's annual tax bill averaged around seven percent of its profits.[55]
Political activities in United Kingdom
In Britain, in the 1980s, Murdoch formed a close alliance with Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and The Sun credited itself with helping her successor John Major to win an unexpected election victory in the 1992 general election, which had been expected to end in a hung parliament or a narrow win for Neil Kinnock's Labour.[56] In the general elections of 1997,2001 and 2005, Murdoch's papers were either neutral or supported Labour under Tony Blair.[citation needed]
The Labour Party, from when Tony Blair became leader in 1994, had moved from the Left to a more central position on many economic issues prior to 1997. Murdoch identifies himself as alibertarian, saying "What does libertarian mean? As much individual responsibility as possible, as little government as possible, as few rules as possible. But I'm not saying it should be taken to the absolute limit."[57]
In a 2005 speech delivered in New York, Murdoch said that Blair described the BBC coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster as being full of hatred of America.[58]
In 1998, Rupert Murdoch made an attempt to buy the football club Manchester United F.C.,[59] with an offer of £625 million, but this failed. It was the largest amount ever offered for a sports club. It was blocked by the United Kingdom's Competition Commission, which stated that the acquisition would have "hurt competition in the broadcast industry and the quality of British football".
On 28 June 2006 the BBC reported that Murdoch and News Corporation were considering backing new Conservative leader David Cameron at the next General Election – still up to four years away.[60] In a later interview in July 2006, when he was asked what he thought of the Conservative leader, Murdoch replied "Not much".[61] In a 2009 blog, it was suggested that in the aftermath of the News of the World phone hacking scandal which is still ongoing in 2012 and might yet have Transatlantic implications[62] Murdoch and News Corporation might have decided to back Cameron.[63] Despite this, there had already been a convergence of interests between the two men over the muting of Britain's communications regulator Ofcom.[64]
In 2006, Britain's Independent newspaper reported that Murdoch would offer Tony Blair a senior role in his global media company News Corporation when the prime minister stood down from office.[65]
He is accused by former Solidarity MSP Tommy Sheridan of having a personal vendetta against him and of conspiring with MI5 to produce a video of him confessing to having affairs – allegations over which Sheridan had previously sued News International and won.[66] On being arrested for perjury following the case, Sheridan claimed that the charges were "orchestrated and influenced by the powerful reach of the Murdoch empire".[67]
In August 2008, British Conservative leader and future Prime Minister David Cameron accepted free flights to hold private talks and attend private parties with Murdoch on his yacht, theRosehearty.[68] Cameron has declared in the Commons register of interests he accepted a private plane provided by Murdoch's son-in-law, public relations guru Matthew Freud; Cameron has not revealed his talks with Murdoch. The gift of travel in Freud's Gulfstream IV private jet was valued at around £30,000. Other guests attending the "social events" included the then EU trade commissioner Lord Mandelson, the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and co-chairman of NBC Universal Ben Silverman. The Conservatives have not disclosed what was discussed.[69]
In July 2011, it emerged that Cameron met key executives of Murdoch's News Corporation 26 times during the 14 months that Cameron had served as Prime Minister.[70] It was also reported that Murdoch had given Cameron a personal guarantee that there would be no risk attached to hiring Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World, as the Conservative Party's communication director in 2007.[71] This was in spite of Coulson having resigned as editor over phone hacking by a reporter. Cameron chose to take Murdoch's advice, despite warnings from Nick Clegg, Lord Ashdown and The Guardian.[72] Coulson resigned his post in 2011 and was later arrested and questioned on allegations of further criminal activity at TheNews of the World, specifically the News International phone hacking scandal. As a result of the subsequent trial, Coulson was sentenced to 18 months in jail.[73]
News International phone hacking scandal
In July 2011 Rupert Murdoch, along with his son James, provided testimony before a British parliamentary committee regarding phone hacking. In the U.K., his media empire remains under fire as investigators continue to probe reports of other phone hacking.[74]
On 14 July, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons served a summons on Murdoch, his son James, and his former CEO Rebekah Brooks to testify before a committee on 19 July.[75] After an initial refusal, the Murdochs confirmed they would attend after the committee issued them a summons to Parliament.[76] The day before the committee, the website of the News Corporation publication The Sun was hacked, and a false story was posted on the front page claiming that Murdoch had died.[77] Murdoch described the day of the committee "the most humble day of my life". He argued that since he ran a global business of 53,000 employees and that the News of the World was "just 1%" of this, he was not ultimately responsible for what went on at the tabloid. He added that he had not considered resigning,[78] and that he and the other top executives had been completely unaware of the hacking.[79][80]
On 15 July, Murdoch attended a private meeting in London with the family of Milly Dowler, where he personally apologized for the hacking of their murdered daughter's voicemail by a company he owns.[81][82] On 16 and 17 July, News International published two full-page apologies in many of Britain's national newspapers. The first apology took the form of a letter, signed by Rupert Murdoch, in which he said sorry for the "serious wrongdoing" that occurred. The second was titled "Putting right what's gone wrong", and gave more detail about the steps News International was taking to address the public's concerns.[82] In the wake of the allegations Murdoch accepted the resignations of Rebekah Brooks, head of Murdoch's British operations, andLes Hinton, head of Dow Jones who was chairman of Murdoch's British newspaper division when some of the abuses happened. They both deny any knowledge of any wrongdoing under their command.[83]
On 27 February 2012, the following day after Murdoch's controversial release of the Sun on Sunday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers informed the Leveson Inquiry that police are investigating a "network of corrupt officials" as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption. She said that evidence suggested a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun newspaper and that these payments allegedly made by the Sun were authorised at a senior level.[84]
In testimony on 25 April 2012, Murdoch did not deny the quote attributed to him by his former editor of The Sunday Times, Harold Evans: "I give instructions to my editors all round the world, why shouldn't I in London?"[85][86] On 1 May 2012, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee issued a report stating that Murdoch was "not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company".[87][88]
On 3 July 2013 Exaro and Channel 4 news broke the story of a secretly recorded tape. The tape was recorded by Sun journalists and in it Murdoch can be heard telling them that the whole investigation was one big fuss over nothing, and that he, or his successors, would take care of any journalists who went to prison.[89] He said: "Why are the police behaving in this way? It's the biggest inquiry ever, over next to nothing."[90]
Activities in the United States
Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio Express-News. Soon afterwards, he founded Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976, he purchased the New York Post.[9] On 4 September 1985, Murdoch became a naturalized citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens were permitted to own US television stations. This resulted in Murdoch losing his Australian citizenship.[91][92]
Marvin Davis sold Marc Rich's interest in 20th Century Fox to Murdoch for $250 million in March 1984. Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge's Metromedia television stations.[93] Murdoch went alone and bought the stations, and later bought out Davis' remaining stake in Fox for $325 million.[93] The six television stations owned by Metromediawould form the nucleus of the Fox Broadcasting Company, founded on 9 October 1986, which would go on to have great success with programmes such as The Simpsons and The X-Files.[9]
In 1987 in Australia, he bought The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, the company that his father had once managed. By 1990 News Corporation had built up debts of $7 billion (much from Sky TV in the UK).[9] forcing Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s. In 1993, it took exclusive coverage of the National Football League (NFL) from CBS and increased programming to seven days a week.[94] In 1995, Murdoch's Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.'s Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal. However, the FCC ruled in Murdoch's favour, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the best interests of the public. That same year, Murdoch announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website and magazine, The Weekly Standard. Also that year, News Corporation launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in partnership with Telstra. In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news station. Ratings studies released in 2009 showed that the network was responsible for nine of the top ten programs in the "Cable News" category at that time.[95] Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (founder and former owner of CNN) are long-standing rivals.[96] In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD).[30] His Fox movie studio would go on to have global hits with Titanic and Avatar.[97]
In 2004, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corporation headquarters from Adelaide, Australia to the United States. Choosing a US domicile was designed to ensure that American fund managers could purchase shares in the company, since many were deciding not to buy shares in non-US companies.[citation needed]
On 20 July 2005, News Corporation bought Intermix Media Inc., which held Myspace, Imagine Games Network and other social networking-themed websites, for $580 million USD, making Murdoch a major player in online media concerns.[98] In June 2011, it sold off Myspace for US$35 million.[99]On 11 September 2005, News Corporation announced that it would buy IGN Entertainment for $650 million (USD).[100]
In May 2007, Murdoch made a $5 billion offer to purchase Dow Jones. At the time, the Bancroft family, who had owned the Dow Jones for 105 years and controlled 64% of the shares at the time, declined the offer. Later, the Bancroft family confirmed a willingness to consider a sale. Besides Murdoch, the Associated Press reported that supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan were among the other interested parties.[101] In 2007, Murdoch acquired Dow Jones,[102][103] which gave him such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's Magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review (based in Hong Kong) andSmartMoney.[104]
In June 2014, Murdoch's 21st Century Fox made a bid for Time Warner at $85 per share in stock and cash ($80 billion total) which Time Warner's board of directors turned down in July. Warner's CNN unit would have been sold to ease antitrust issues of the purchase.[105] On 5 August 2014 the company announced it had withdrawn its offer for Time Warner, and said it would spend $6 billion buying back its own shares over the following 12 months.[106]
Political activities in the United States
McNight (2010) identifies four characteristics of his media operations: free market ideology; unified positions on matters of public policy; global editorial meetings; and opposition to a liberal bias in other public media.[107]
On 8 May 2006, the Financial Times reported that Murdoch would be hosting a fund-raiser for Senator Hillary Clinton's (D-New York) Senate re-election campaign.[108] In a 2008 interview with Walt Mossberg, Murdoch was asked whether he had "anything to do with the New York Post's endorsement of Barack Obama in the democratic primaries." Without hesitating, Murdoch replied, "Yeah. He is a rock star. It's fantastic. I love what he is saying about education. I don't think he will win Florida… but he will win in Ohio and the election. I am anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk."[109][110] Murdoch is a strong supporter of Israel and its domestic policies.[111]
In 2010, News Corporation gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association and $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.[112][113][114] Murdoch also served on the board of directors of the libertarian Cato Institute.[115] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[116] Murdoch is also a supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act.[117]
Murdoch is a supporter of more open immigration policies in western nations generally.[118] In the United States, Murdoch and chief executives from several major corporations, includingHewlett-Packard, Boeing and Disney joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form the Partnership for a New American Economy to advocate "for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all illegal aliens now in the United States."[119] The coalition, reflecting Murdoch and Bloomberg's own views, also advocates significant increases in legal immigration to the United States as a means of boosting America's sluggish economy and lowering unemployment. The Partnership's immigration policy prescriptions are notably similar to those of the Cato Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—both of which Murdoch has supported in the past.[120]
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has similarly advocated for increased legal immigration, in contrast to the staunch anti-immigration stance of Murdoch's British newspaper, The Sun.[121] On 5 September 2010, Murdoch testified before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership on the "Role of Immigration in Strengthening America's Economy." In his testimony, Murdoch called for ending mass deportations and endorsed a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan that would include a pathway to citizenship for all illegal immigrants.[119]
In the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, Murdoch was critical of the competence of Mitt Romney's team but was nonetheless strongly supportive of a Republican victory, tweeting: "Of course I want him [Romney] to win, save us from socialism, etc."[122]
In May 2013, Murdoch purchased the Moraga Estate, an estate, vineyard and winery in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California.[123][124]
In October 2015, Murdoch stirred controversy, tweeting, "Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else." [125]After which he apologized, tweeting, "Apologies! No offence meant. Personally find both men charming." [126]
Activities in Europe
Murdoch owns controlling interest in Sky Italia, a satellite television provider in Italy.[127] Murdoch's business interests in Italy have been a source of contention since they began.[127] In 2010 Murdoch won a media dispute with then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. A judge ruled the then Prime Minister's media arm Mediaset prevented News Corporation's Italian unit, Sky Italia, from buying advertisements on its television networks.[128]
Activities in Asia
In 1993, Murdoch acquired Star TV, a Hong Kong company founded by Richard Li[129] for $1 billion (Souchou, 2000:28), and subsequently set up offices for it throughout Asia. The deal enables News International to broadcast from Hong Kong to India, China, Japan and over thirty other countries in Asia, becoming one of the biggest satellite TV networks in the east.[9]However, the deal did not work out as Murdoch had planned, because the Chinese government placed restrictions on it that prevented it from reaching most of China.
Personal life
In 1956 Murdoch married Patricia Booker, a former shop assistant and flight attendant from Melbourne and they had their only child, Prudence, in 1958.[130][131] Rupert and Patricia Murdoch divorced in 1967.[5]
In 1967 Murdoch married Anna Maria Torv (Tõrv),[130] a Scottish-born cadet journalist working for his Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph.[5]During his marriage to Torv, a Roman Catholic, Murdoch was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KSG), a papal honour awarded by Pope John Paul II.[132] Torv and Murdoch had three children: Elisabeth Murdoch (born in Sydney, Australia on 22 August 1968),Lachlan Murdoch (born in London, UK on 8 September 1971), and James Murdoch, (born in London on 13 December 1972).[130][131] Murdoch's companies published two novels by his then wife: Family Business (1988) and Coming to Terms (1991), both widely regarded[133] as vanity publications. They divorced in June 1999. Anna Murdoch received a settlement of US$1.2 billion in assets.[134]
On 25 June 1999, 17 days after divorcing his second wife, Murdoch, then aged 68, married Chinese-born Wendi Deng.[135] She was 30, a recent Yale School of Management graduate, and a newly appointed vice-president of his STAR TV. Murdoch has two daughters with her; Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Rupert Murdoch has six children in all, and is grandfather to thirteen grandchildren.[136] On 13 June 2013, a News Corporation spokesperson confirmed that Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in New York City, U.S.[137] According to the spokesman, the marriage had been irretrievably broken for more than six months.[138] Murdoch also ended his long-standing relationship with Tony Blair after suspecting him of having an affair with Deng while they were still married.[139]
Murdoch has six children.[140] His eldest child, Prudence MacLeod, was appointed on 28 January 2011 to the board of Times Newspapers Ltd, part of News International, which publishesThe Times and The Sunday Times.[141] 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.[140] Lachlan's departure left James Murdoch chief executive of the satellite television service British Sky Broadcasting since November 2003, as the only Murdoch son still directly involved with the company's operations, though Lachlan has agreed to remain on the News Corporation's board.[142]
After graduating from Vassar College[143] and marrying classmate Elkin Kwesi Pianim (the son of Ghanaian financial and political mogul Kwame Pianim) in 1993,[143] Murdoch's daughterElisabeth, along with her husband, purchased a pair of NBC-affiliate television stations in California, KSBW and KSBY, with a $35 million loan provided by her father. By quickly re-organising and re-selling them at a $12 million profit in 1995, Elisabeth emerged as an unexpected rival to her brothers for the eventual leadership of the publishing dynasty's empire. But after divorcing her first husband in 1998 and quarrelling publicly with her assigned mentor Sam Chisholm at BSkyB, she struck out on her own as a television and film producer in London. She has since enjoyed independent success, in conjunction with her second husband, Matthew Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) whom she met in 1997 and married in 2001.[143]
It is not known how long Murdoch will remain as News Corporation's CEO. For a while the American cable television entrepreneur John Malone was the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch himself, potentially undermining the family's control. In 2007, the company announced that it would sell certain assets and give cash to Malone's company in exchange for its stock. In 2007, the company issued Murdoch's older children voting stock.[citation needed]
Murdoch has two children with Wendi Deng: Grace (b. New York, 19 November 2001)[6] and Chloe (b. New York, 17 July 2003).[5][131] It was revealed in September 2011 that Tony Blair is Grace's godfather.[144] There is reported to be tension between Murdoch and his oldest children over the terms of a trust holding the family's 28.5 percent stake in News Corporation, estimated in 2005 to be worth about $6.1 billion. Under the trust, his children by Wendi Deng share in the proceeds of the stock but have no voting privileges or control of the stock. Voting rights in the stock are divided 50/50 between Murdoch on the one side and his children of his first two marriages. 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. It is Murdoch's stated desire to have his children by Deng given a measure of control over the stock proportional to their financial interest in it (which would mean, if Murdoch dies while at least one of the children is a minor, that Deng would exercise that control). It does not appear that he has any strong legal grounds to contest the present arrangement, and both ex-wife Anna and their three children are said to be strongly resistant to any such change.[145]
Portrayal on television, in film, books and music
Murdoch and rival newspaper and publishing magnate Robert Maxwell are thinly fictionalised as "Keith Townsend" and "Richard Armstrong" in The Fourth Estate by British novelist and former MP Jeffrey Archer.[146]
Murdoch has been portrayed
- by Barry Humphries in the 1991 mini-series Selling Hitler
- by Hugh Laurie in a parody of It's a Wonderful Life in the television show A Bit of Fry & Laurie
- by Ben Mendelsohn in the film Black and White[147]
- by Paul Elder in The Late Shift
- by himself on The Simpsons, first in "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" and later in "Judge Me Tender"
- by Patrick Brammall in the 2-part mini-series Power Games[148]
- by Kevin Phelan in SQUINT theatre company's "Long Story Short" (The Pleasance, Islington, 2014)
It has been speculated that the character of Elliot Carver, the global media magnate and main villain in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, is based on Murdoch. The writer of the film, Bruce Feirstein, has stated that Carver was actually inspired by British press magnate Robert Maxwell, who was one of Murdoch's rivals.[149]
In the 1997 film Fierce Creatures, the head of Octopus Inc. Rod McCain (initials R.M.) character is likely modelled after Murdoch.[150]
In 1999, the Ted Turner owned TBS aired an original sitcom, The Chimp Channel. This featured an all-simian cast and the role of an Australian TV veteran named Harry Waller. The character is described as "a self-made gazillionaire with business interests in all sorts of fields. He owns newspapers, hotel chains, sports franchises and genetic technologies, as well as everyone's favourite cable TV channel, The Chimp Channel." Waller is thought to be a parody of Murdoch, a long-time rival of Turner.[151]
In 2004, the movie Outfoxed included many interviews accusing Fox News of pressuring reporters to report only one side of news stories, in order to influence viewers' political opinions.[152]
In 2012, the satirical show Hacks, broadcast on UK-based Channel 4, made obvious comparisons with Rupert Murdoch using the fictional character 'Stanhope Feast', portrayed by Michael Kitchen, as well as other central figures in the phone hacking scandal.[153]
Influence, wealth and reputation
|This section may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies. (May 2014)
According to Forbes' 2013 list of richest Americans, Murdoch is the 33rd richest person in the US and the 91st richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$12.4 billion.[1] In 2014, Forbes ranked "Rupert Murdoch & Family" as the 33rd most-powerful person in the world.[154]
In 2003 Murdoch bought a 'Rosehearty', 11 bedroom home on a 5-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island, New York.[155]
In August 2013, Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communications at Queensland University of Technology, wrote an article for the Conversation publication in which he verified a claim by former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd that Murdoch owned 70% of Australian newspapers in 2011. Flew's article showed that News Corp Australia owned 23% of the nation's newspapers in 2011, according to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, but, at the time of the article, the corporation's titles accounted for 59% of the sales of all daily newspapers, with weekly sales of 17.3 million copies.[156]
In connection with Murdoch's testimony to the Leveson Inquiry "into the ethics of the British press", editor of Newsweek International, Tunku Varadarajan, referred to him as "the man whose name is synonymous with unethical newspapers".[157]
News Corp papers were accused of supporting the campaign of the Australian Liberal government and influencing public opinion during the 2013 federal election. Following the announcement of the Liberal Party victory at the polls, Murdoch tweeted "Aust. election public sick of public sector workers and phony welfare scroungers sucking life out of economy. Other nations to follow in time".[158]
In November 2015, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Rupert Murdoch "arguably has had more impact on the wider world than any other living Australian."[159]
See also
- List of assets owned by 21st Century Fox
- List of assets owned by News Corp
- Metropolitan police role in phone hacking scandal
- Murdoch family
- News International phone hacking scandal
- Phone hacking scandal reference lists


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Bluefire Hold
Encircled within two sandy prominences, a deep harbor of clear aqua waters shimmers under a tropical sun. Sailing and fishing boats ply the waters, but the main shipping appears to be flat barges with pressurized metal cylinders from the gas fields bound for the Western Islands.
The waterfront consists primarily of large docks build to accommodate the barges exporting natural gas tanks but there is a marina off to one side that suffices for smaller private vessels. Quieter public beaches are located in smaller lagoons along the shores while this harbor remains busy with the industry of loading and unloading gas tanks and the fish needed to sustain the people of this hold.
A crushed shell road leaves the area, passing beyond thick green growth - palms, broad-leafed greenery and gorgeous flowering vines, heading north before it splits into a Y, the east branch leading to a bluff overlooking the harbor where the hold perches, the west branch moves deeper inland where the gas fields lie.
It's mid-afternoon, and, as usual, Blue Flame Hold's port and docks are busy-busy, since quite a few places have need and desire for the natural gas they produce in large quantity. People move around everywhere, seeing to their tasks, from fitting ship riggings to replacing dock floats. Somewhere 'in between,' a taller, very short-haired woman with pale locks and keen green eyes stands, her form steady, legs slightly parted to provide good balance, her gaze sweeping across things near and far (mostly nearer, though) as big men near her carry large canisters of natural gas up gangplanks and onto ships.
Sleek shapes move in the shadows of the docks, a wetsuited figure wearing the emblem of the dolphin craft sits perched on the edge of the water near the boats. "And I'm telling you if you take that boat out in the shape it's in, you are just asking to be fished out of the bay, I checked the hole myself just to be sure it wasn't one of their pranks. Something caught the planks.." A dour-faced dockworker just grunts at her and starts back in the direction or the hold, presumably to report the leak. "Everybody's a critic." Is replied to with a squeal and splash before sea green eyes are lifting from the water to survey the area and the blonde with a lift of both brows.
The wetsuited figure is taken in by those seemingly merciless, clear tsavorite eyes of Alida's when the small racket begins, the pale-skinned and pale-haired woman checking out the interplay between dockworker and dolphineer, then looking up something in a notepad whe produces from a pants pocket. Mm…seems to jive that such things would be found here. It's that squeal and squee that have her gaze lifting back up and out toward the seated female, then down towards those sleek shapes in the water. For a few long seconds, she stares at the dolphin — if it's viewable above the water's surface, of course — a look of curiosity and faint wonderment entering her gaze for a few moments before she returns to keeping a weather eye out on what takes place around her.
SOMEONES LOOKING AT MOI? The dolphin in question is smaller, one of the youngsters of the pod, but he seems to take note of being noticed and chirps and squeaks and trills start anew between the three- no four sleek shapes. Seconds later a shape bursts from the water flopping down to create the largest possible splash and leaving one dolphineer shouting. "Damnit Flora, don't go terrorizing the -"
Squeaks and chirps and trills are finally getting to be sounds that the landlubber Alida expects here in the semi-tropics and by the ocean, her experience with the sea a rather newer one, indeed. But when one of the dolphineers starts shouting about Flora terrorizing something or other… Well, the ex-guard cannot help but react with alacrity, Alida dropping the pad of paper to the wooden dock, spinning around like greased lightning, and grasping at the pig-sticker of a knife at her left hip. Spu-LASH!!! And then the deluge hits, Flora the dolphin 'kid's' big splash in life inundating those at the edge of the docks, from men carrying empty and full cannisters of gas to other dock workers to… Alida. In an instant, the hardened woman is soaked from head to booted toes in sea water, her hand slowly letting go of her knife's pommel, and chilly green eyes opening to pin a LOOK upon that one dolphin, then the female human sitting on the pier. Glare…drip-drip-drip.
Tani can't help it, laughter bursts forth in fits as she eyes the dripping… well Tanit isn't quite sure what the blonde is other than soaked. "You'll have to forgive them, but Merc thought you could use a little fun." Is dripping wet fun? Dolphin rational would seem to indicate such. The lanky brunette pulls to her feet closing the distance and offering a hand in greeting. "Tanit, apprentice Dolphineer, the smaller one is Merc, the female is Flora and the big guy over there is Artie. "
Tani can't help it, laughter bursts forth in fits as she eyes the dripping… well Tanit isn't quite sure what the blonde is other than soaked. "You'll have to forgive them, but Merc thought you could use a little fun." Is dripping wet fun? Dolphin rational would seem to indicate such. The lanky brunette pulls to her feet closing the distance and offering a hand in greeting. "Tanit, apprentice Dolphineer, the smaller one is Merc, the female is Flora and the big guy over there is Artie. "
Grrr….Siiiiiiigh. Alida might be a hard-ass, but when she soon learns from Tanit that two are kids who were just looking to play, the head of security draws a deep, evening breath, expells it deeply and slowly, closes her eyes for a moment, then nods at the apprentice. "Understood…" comes her light alto, and though it still doesn't sound terribly charmed, at least it isn't angry. All about them, various dock workers are grousing, grumbling, squeezing out their clothes, or even chuckling a little. It's then that Alida's gaze zips all around for some moments, making sure things are still secure before she levels it back upon Tanit once more. "Leeta; head of Gas security." That hand before her is examined for a long moment, as if it might conceal a firecracker or dagger or something…and then finally taken up, given a quick, slightly hard squeeze, dropped. The triad of named dolphins nearer them are eyed for some moments, then slightly smirked at. To them the merc calls: "Thanks for the 'fun,' but work is the order of the day, right now. No more of that, thanks." Eyeroll. To Tanit: "They yours?"
"While I may qualify as an aquatic mammal, I certainly did not birth them, and any dolphin will laugh their ass off at the idea of a human owning them." Tanit grins, accepting the grip for what it is and returning it. "I just work with them, they are part of the pod stationed between Half Moon Bay and Black Moon Bay, and Artie is teaching these two how to check ships. While it's fun fishing them out of the water, it is much easier keeping the humans in the boat."
"Dolphin-ass…" Alida smirkingly notes to Tanit for a moment, the woman then returning to her neutral appearance, eyes scanning the horizons for some moments while the dolphineer speaks, then returning to her. "Does their pod have an official name?" is then inquired, the security woman once again serious as she bend to pick up her notepad…and finds it partially waterlogged. SIGH. One mostly still-dry page or two is located, and a pen slipped from one of her breast pockets, uncapped, set to said paper. Blink, smirk. "Don't worry. I'm not gonna turn anyone in. I just would like to have a note of who the locals are. This harbor's been…compromised before, or so I've been told." And *that* won't happen again under *her* watch. "Useful ta' have eyes under the water." And how.
"Most pods are just referred to by their territories. The hall assigns them numbers. I remember hearing about the explosion, that was… before the hurricane right?" Someone's grasp of time isn't the best. "I'd like to see someone try to turn one of them in, it doesn't really do much good they don't have much concept of discipline. Everything gets treated like a game. If a dolphin is being completely serious, that's when you really know you are in trouble." Tanit admits rubbing the back of her neck with a shrug. "Seems like a boring job if you don't mind me saying Leeda."
"I see. So…Half Moon Pod, then?" Alida notes with vague curiosity, looking to Tanit to say 'yea' or 'nay' and correct her if she's wrong, the woman then nodding a couple of times to word of the hurricane. "I wasn't here then, but I think that's right." Word of an innate lack of 'dolphin discipline' makes one of 'Leeta's' pale eyebrows loft a little, the woman then grunting softly and nodding when the apprentice speaks of the animals knowing how and when to be utterly serious. As for her own job being boring, "There's more to it than meets the eye…but it does take a certain kind of…discipline over one's self to perform it well." Is *she* boring, then?
"Black Moon more properly." To Which Merc pops his head out of the water with a series of squeals and clicks, giving the dolphineer cause to roll her eyes. "Well, Merc is originally from the Hall. Few more years he'll be old enough to partner up if he wants. " The young dolphin continues eyeing from the water, clearly up to something but what is left for debate.
"*Black* Moon Pod…" Alida corrects succinctley, nodding as she crosses out her written 'Half' and writes the proper adjective in place over it. "Thank you…" is murmured, Merc's squeals and clicks earning him a smirk before clear green eyes turn to Tanit once again. "Are they like human ages for maturing, and such?" Curiosity sparks again in the palest-blonde woman, her gaze shifting back to young Merc. Noted with a hint of darkly humored drawl: "I c'n see he's up t' something." Really?
Once again, however, it would seem that Merc is the distraction as Flora zooms up and out of the water to flop back down again. The dolphineer, either so used to this that it doesn't merit a reaction or else determined not to feed into the playful cry for attention merely wipes away the water as if nothing has happened. Continue on. Nothing to see here. "No, They never really mature in the terms you would think of for humans. It's like having a bunch of kids around. They are very intelligent but they retain that childlike nature throughout their lives."
She's on guard, this round, and those incredibly acute eyes of 'Leeta's' manage to spy Flora leaping up in the air, the woman turning her back, shoving her pad of half-soggy paper in her bosom, and crouching down into a ball as the next wall of water hits her and some other dock workers. "Shit…" is all that grumblingly issues from the head of security's lips as she's again inundated, her clothing now thoroughly soaked, the 'new' workers on this route from ship to docks cussing out more creatively as they get first-hand experience with the antics of bored dolphins. Once Leeta gets done standing up, wringing all the excess water she can from her shirt — fuck the pants, at this point — then turning back around, she notes flatly to Flora and Merc just beyond them, "I'd give you a day in a holding cell for *that* one…" Puff, eye-roll. If she could. Good luck. Listening to Tanit speak of her 'charges' earns the other female a low groan, and a muttered, "So, I should be expecting this kind of crap from them every time they're near?" Oh, Faranth's non-existant titties… NO.
Tanit just laughs. And the 'teenagers offer a tail walk and chatter as if to say yeah right. "Just when they really bored. It's easier to give them something to focus on or a job to do, so long as you paint it as a game." Raking a hand through wet locks. After all, Tanit's in a wetsuit, "Well, bored or if they think it's amusing to mess with you." Cue Merc popping his nose out of the water and squealing pointedly. "He says you owe him chin scratches for the free show." And no, she doesn't manage to keep an entirely straight face through the comment.
SHe's not seen a tail-walk yet, and the sight of the motions bring a sudden, cautious little grin to Alida's features, the woman quickly flipping the 'kids' the 'bird.' Looking a little more soSHe's not seen a tail-walk yet, and the sight of the motions bring a sudden, cautious little grin to Alida's features, the woman quickly flipping the 'kids' the 'bird.' Looking a little more sober as she turns back to Tanit, "Punk-ass kids." Snort. There's more scribbling down of something in her protected notebook once it comes out — the security head's back given to the dolphins to protect it — the things then secreted away again as she turns back to face everyone. Another scan of the piers and harbor finally sees the woman nodding to Tanit's words of 'games,' her brown once again arching for owing a dolphin scritches. Smirk. "What's he think he is; a dragon?" Cue her lightly rough laugh.ber as she turns back to Tanit, "Punk-ass kids." Snort. There's more scribbling down of something in her protected notebook once it comes out — the security head's back given to the dolphins to protect it — the things then secreted away again as she turns back to face everyone. Another scan of the piers and harbor finally sees the woman nodding to Tanit's words of 'games,' her brow once again arching for owing a dolphin scritches. Smirk. "What's he think he is; a dragon?" Cue her lightly rough laugh.
"Sweet Faranth no, Dragons are way bigger for one." Tanit notes almost solemn, though the spark in those sea-green eyes might hint at additional mischief. "Chin scratches or water gun, your choice." Tanit cautions, "And they are a lot harder to deal with, to be frank. Try washing an Anti-social bronze who thinks he's Faranth's gift to dragons sometimes, but alas. we need to get going. See you around?"
"I never noticed…" Alida notes with dry flatness to the 'dragons equals big' comment, her features bland, though those clear green eyes spark with some humor. "Water gun, eh? Maybe another time." Smirk. Blink. "Well, I guess dragon *do* grow up, mentally. I might've thought otherwise." Dolphins being tougher to deal with. They certainly have aggravated her way more than any dragon, so far…not that Leeta has been super close to any dragon, ever. At Tanit's words of taking off, the landlubber nods her soggy head, calls to the apprentice, "You owe *me* a drink sometime for all this…" Cue a wring of her sopping pants. Her hand is lifted, fingers wriggled in what might stand in for a farewell.


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I had hoped to have book 4 released by now, but life got in the way. Too many things happened this month. At any rate, I have had a chance to work a bit on the cover (I think it looks nifty, so far), and I've done three read-throughs with edits and revisions (and am on a fourth, now). Part of the reason I'm holding back release is that I found issues in each of those three read-throughs. Nothing enormous, but they were big enough that I am uncomfortable not checking for more. I want a read-through where I find nothing but minor problems. And, too, I'm still trying to come up with a title I'm happy with.
So, the short version: I'm working on a clean read-through, finishing up the cover, getting a decent title, and then all I'll have left is to look at test reader feedback and then format it for e-book and trade paperback.
Very close, now.


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Horario de Verano de 9 a 14
- BCN cerrrada del 3 al 14 de Agosto
The coat of arms of Guanajuato appears in the centre of this coin and the name of the state, "GUANAJUATO", is underneath. A statue of Miguel Hidalgo, father of the nation, is on the left; the Pipila monument is on the bottom right and part of the Juárez theatre can be seen in the background. The mintmark of the coin of Mexico is above it. The dove of peace is on the top right with the number "2006", the Pesos symbol "$" and the number "10" underneath.


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Tint regular ole' coffee filters with markers, then layer them for a three-dimensional frame that's vibrant, bold, and, best of all, inexpensive and easy.
- Coffee filters (about 30)
- Colored markers
- Bowls of plain water
- Rubber gloves
- Towel to wipe any spills
- Scissors
- Pom poms or q-tips
Fold 3 coffee filters at a time in half, then fourths and then again till they resemble a tortilla chip. Color the pointy end of any color marker you want or color the whole filter with whatever colors you want. Dip the filters still folded in your hand, the water will seep the colors thru the filter and the effects will amaze you. Look at the picture. All those colors are just from dipping the filters in water slightly.
- Let the filters dry. Then lay them open -- you will have 3 at a time -- put a tiny punch through the three layers. I like to cut them one at a time so that the inside petal will be the smallest petal, middle, the second, etc., at the inside will the shortest, middle...the second, etc. Then push the q-tip thru the hole thru all the layers and you can either fluff the q-tip and glue the excess cotton. Take out the bottom cotton tip on the end. It makes the most colorful frame.
Close up of Q-tip center
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Jul 28, 2012
Any chance you could video tape (old term 'cause I'm old!) this process? Maybe someone out there who's' done it could post a video for us older 'folk who need more visual instruction? Thanks....
Jul 28, 2012
What kind of coffee filters did you use? The Mr. Coffee type (round w/ fluted top), or the V-type one)? Also, I'm not sure that I follow you when you direct to fold the filters. Could you be a little more specific (can't seem to envision the tortilla chip example). Thanks so much! Michele
Apr 30, 2011
Buttons would be cute in the center. This would be a good outdoor summer project.
Mar 26, 2011
Reply to MickeyJo: I supppose you can try to prolong the life of the coffee filter flowers but I never had the need to do it. Maybe if you try one of them with acrylic spray and see what happens, it wouldn't hurt. I dont know if you put a really light layer of Mod Podge what would happen. Those things I dont know. You can try and let me know. Good luck. Michelle
Mar 25, 2011
I wonder if there is anything you could spray on these to give them a longer life?
Mar 24, 2011
Thanks for this great craft. It will be a good craft for our Women's day at our church. It is not only good for kids but first time crafters too!
Mar 24, 2011
These are great!! WOW what a bold statement on a town float! We enter the homecoming parade every year and are always looking for new ideas to help us win! This craft will give us some great colors and designs to help us grab that trophy!! Thanks
Mar 24, 2011
I love this idea!! You could do a LOT with these coffee filter flowers! I could make some cute hair accessories for my granddaughters using these flowers, or decorate a dull lamp shade.. Lots more ideas flowing here! :)
Mar 12, 2011
To answer to Member 20731: When I said "I cut them one at a time so that the inside petal will be the smallest petal, and then I trimmed the middle petal the same way so that will be larger than the inside petal, so that all petals will have a layered look. Then proceed to the next petal (middle). When they are finished, they will have a layered effect. When you have all three petals in your hand... and the end, you will snip the pointy edge of all three. A very small hole so that the q-tip will go thru. I hoped that will help the confusion.
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Mar 06, 2011
I like this idea but what do you mean by cutting? Do you fold each one back up and just cut the point off or do you take one that is opened up and just trim the edges of it? I hope someone understands what I am talking about. Thanks!
Mar 05, 2011
This is a great project for my grandniece. Instructions are clear. I know she will want to use the flowers for a wreath. Maybe add a butterfly in it. She is very creative and her ideas keep growing. Thank you.
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This pic is taken from the other end of the dog run
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Welcome to my domain...if you dare...
Welcome to my blog about life as a writer and the craziness it involves with struggles of daily life. Make yourself at home but only if you don't mind a little messiness from time to time. This isn't the Home and Garden blog or Martha Stewart so don't expect cute little crafts with homemade goodies. That's not happening in the world of vamps, weres, and other things that go bump in the night...well...maybe homemade blood cakes topped with 'scream a la cream' sweetness along with the sexy alpha males who serve it up.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tempting Tuesday...Never Letting Go
Once the police come and gone, Laney's knees finally buckled from the day's chaos. Her head ached from the ugliness she'd witnessed in the last twenty-four hours. If she saw anything with crimson red in it or on it, she'd probably have herself committed to an asylum. That's how badly the day fucked with her head. Now, all she craved was peace of mind and restful sleep. If only that could happen soon.
As Laney struggled to gather the strength to leave her once safe haven: home, the screams of her best friend tortured Laney's now fragile mind. She needed to get far away from the pain. Her body still shook from the terror of seeing Abigail's petite frame beaten black and blue. Not an inch of her body was spared from the hours of brutality spent on her. Laney threw up from the site alone; not to mention the distressed phone call she received while Abigail was being victimized. The whole sick, twisted event caused her insides to tighten with fear and dread. She ultimately knew the end result. Unfortunately, she'd seen it time and time again; yet, this was the first time it had hit so close to home. Laney actually had a relationship with the victim this time. Abigail. It was bad enough that these perverted crimes happened but throw in a person whom she knew and all bets were off. God, she hated that.
Laney made her way back to Eric's place. He was the one person who calmed her. He always had a soothing effect on her. Today, she needed his strength more than ever.
Pushing open the front door, Laney entered the living room and dropped her duffel bag on the floor. She wasn't even thinking about unpacking at that moment. She just needed him. "Eric!" She cried as she stumbled into the hallway towards the kitchen. The sound of pots banging clued her in that he was most likely in there.
"Eric!' Her mind began to race with instant fear. What if? What if he was gone too? "Eric!"
"What? I'm in here, Laney. What's..." He stopped abruptly at the sight of Laney's disheveled appearance. Her eyes conveyed the look of a crazed woman. He instantly ran to her. "Baby, what happened?"
As soon has he touched her, the tears flowed down Laney's cheeks. "Ab...Ab...Abi..Abigail."
"What about her?" His green eyes narrowed in on hers. He had a knack of getting to the issue by just a single look. She needed that and so much more from him right now.
"She's dead." Laney's voice sounded so dull and robotic. No emotion, just matter of fact. Not at all like the vivacious person Abigail called her. Laney sobbed uncontrollably at the simple memory. Funny how the small things can really set a person off.
"I don't understand, Laney." Eric held her close as she cried. "How?"
"He came for her. Her of all people. He wants to hurt me by taking the ones close to me away." Her crying became more frantic and hysterical.
"Shhhhh....baby. I'm here. You'll catch him soon and he'll pay for his crimes. We'll get through this."
"No!" Laney shoved Eric away from her. "WE won't. You can't be a part of this, Eric! Don't you see? He'll come after you like he did Abigail. I don't want you hurt or..."
"Laney, baby, calm down." Eric's soothing voice calmed her nerves to some degree but he realized she needed a gentle nudge. "Honey, go take a bath. I'll finish dinner and then we'll discuss this. Together."
"Go soak in the tub, please. Let's figure this out later." A gentle smile spread across his face. The genuine gesture definitely had the impact on Laney which Eric wanted.
His hands turned her body towards the bathroom. He guided her into the room, then ran a hot bath for Laney. As Eric left Laney alone, he silently prayed the bath would miraculously wash away the day's nastiness for her.
While Laney bathed, it seemed like a lifetime flashed by for her. Although a short period of time went by, the water's warmth eased some of the tension from her body.
Without realizing it, she exited the bathroom and stood naked in the Eric's room; she eyed her duffel bag on the bed. Eric must have brought it in here for her. She opened it up to put on something comfortable. Yet as she took out a pair of flannel pajamas, her mind thought only of Abigail. Laney's eyes teared up again and she sobbed uncontrollably. She bawled from the deep pain of loosing her best friend. Loosing her too soon in life. Loosing her in such a gruesome way.
Eric heard the agonizing wails throughout the house. Since dinner was prepared and being kept warm, he was no longer in the kitchen. He decided to clear his head with a quick cardio workout on the treadmill. Knowing most likely that Laney needed time to get her thoughts together, he didn't want her feeling rushed with anything, even dinner. Yet, when the sound of her frightful screams tore through the house, he dashed to her without hesitation.
As he entered the bedroom, the sight of her balled up and sobbing on the floor ripped at his heart. She was so strong and resilient. He'd never seen her so broken.
When he reached her, Eric knelt down and gently pulled Laney up. "Sweetheart. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. Let it all out, baby."
Laney's tear-stained face and bloodshot eyes locked onto Eric's calming demeanor . It was then she realized that she could and would never send him away. He was as stubborn and bullheaded as she was at times. He wouldn't allow it. Besides, together they made an unstoppable team. His strength and logical mind eased her frustrations and fears. He alone. Nothing else and no one else.
"Ok." She choked back a sob. "I'm never letting you go, you know that right?"
"Of course, baby. I'm not letting you go either. Besides, neither one of us would allow that to happen anyways." He kissed her forehead as he wrapped his arms around her body.
Laney clung to him as if he were a life preserver. He was her rock, especially when it came to dealing with the nightmares from her work. "Never letting go." She whispered into his ear. "Never."
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24 Sep 2016 – The Lynfield College Gold Mixed team of Esther Tomkinson, Aldi Ting, Niamh Masterton and Tanmay Arora backed up their 2015 title with a 7-1 win in the Auckland Schools Mixed final at Paradice Avondale last week.
The team had had a variable season, winning only half of their pool matches, but were too strong in the final for promising 2016 newcomers Long Bay College Alpha.
A second title went Lynfield's way when Lynfield Grey (Stefan Mathews, Tameem Saeid, Jacob Penny, Alan Chen) had a last-stone 6-5 final win against the only other Boys' team Birkenhead College, who started as favourites after a strong season. A score of 4 in the third end, and then a quadruple takeout to blank the sixth end were stand-out moments for the Lynfield squad.
The Girls' competition was by far the largest and the tightest in the 2016 Auckland Schools season, with 11 teams entered. Both of the previous week's semi-finals were close matches, Lynfield Green beating St Dominics 8-7 and Epsom Girls Azalea getting home 6-5 against Birkenhead.
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I fell in love with this place, where life felt very simple and where we were able to work without the sense of bureaucracy that I was used to in the UK. At that time, aged 23, I knew little and learned a lot. On and off, I spent seven years visiting, digging wells, drumming, planting trees and inviting visitors to camp with me over the winter months. We helped to support the maintenance of the project through our humble means. Then came studies, two children, and life. I left my Gambian friend Kabiro and his family living there, I didn't visit for a long time, and lost touch.
When I returned earlier this year after a seven-year absence, I had no idea what to expect.
What I found was that the place has now become a community garden and is used by several local families. Although many of the wells have fallen in, and the fence has half disappeared, the trees we planted fifteen years ago are now producing coconuts, mangoes, cashews, and other fruits. There is a sense of both dilapidation, and vibrant growth, and I hope and believe, that a crowd funding campaign can help to create a sustainable sense of growth within this small community.
I enjoy getting my hands in the earth, and I am also a musician. One of the things that I love about working in West Africa, is that instead of taking a break to collapse into a chair, people often drum, dance and sing to generate energy. Now that I've grown up a bit, I feel that I have an opportunity to do something really positive, and to give my energy to a place and to people who don't have the same benefits and opportunities as we have in the 'West'. If I can keep drumming and dancing I'm sure it will all work out.
I don't feel that it's about 'us' helping 'them'. I feel it's about helping each other. There's a lot we can learn from Africa; how to smile in the face of adversity, how to work to a rhythm instead of to a deadline, how to make do with little and how to be in community.
I'm now hatching plans, not just to maintain this wonderful resource, but to grow it and help to make new and exciting things happen. We are raising money through a crowd funding campaign to set up accommodation on site and a borehole for clean drinking water. With these two things, we can improve both the quality of life for the Gambians involved, and create opportunities for visitors from abroad to come and support and experience the joys and challenges of Gambian life. From the amazing birdlife, to the goats that roam and destroy the gardens - From the traditional Mandinka drumming and dancing to the fixation of the youth of living in Europe - From the battle to stave off the Sahara desert, to the peace and tranquility of the nearby Atlantic Ocean, there is a lot to be experienced.
Some of the things we want to bring to the project in the future are: Facilitate and encourage organic vegetable growing, develop the forest garden, start a community tree nursery, explore alternative technologies, and support local musicians and craftspeople.
Please help to do this by contributing what you can! Every little helps, and you needn't go away empty handed either. We are offering loads of great perks including a range of drums made by our favorite wood carver in The Gambia, kinkeling calendars full of bright images from the garden, music downloads to keep you dancing, and much more.
Thanks for your support.
You can support the Kinkeling Community Garden - Sound Of The Gambia project through the crowd funding campaign here (until 7 December 2015).
Allan Kerr, a musician based in Devon, UK. He performs with the band Ombiviolum who have played at the Resurgence Summer camp.


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