Rupert Murdoch

Do you like the feeling of power you have as a newspaper proprietor, being able to sort of formulate policies for a large number of newspapers in every state of Australia?

Well, there's only one honest answer to that, of course, and that's yes.

Of course one enjoys the feeling of power.

Was buying into the News of the World your own idea, or was it suggested from someone else?

It was entirely my own idea.

Depends what you call by spice and sex and salaciousness.

We're obviously not going to avoid the subject.

But it's not going to be a dirty pipe, of course not.

Well, I certainly didn't buy them to change them, and I certainly have the right to insist on excellence.

We, in fact, had trouble with a number of left-wing journalists because we took their distortions out of their stories.

We were not the only newspaper saying that the government should change.

I was appalled to find out what had happened.

And that...

opened the space for Fox News.