Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. There is no possible argument about his boldness, vision and skill of execution in conquering the British tabloid market, leading vertical media integration by uniting film studios and television stations, cracking the US television triopoly, being one of the great pioneers of satellite television and founding a conservative-populist American news network. (It was to reduce News Corp’s dependence on Roger Ailes’ Tea Party Fox News Network that he was so eager to spend £12bn buying all the shares in BSkyB and laying hands on all its income.) It must also be admitted that the Wall St Journal is the only quality product Mr Murdoch has ever bought and actually improved.
魯柏•梅鐸(Rupert Murdoch)也許是史上最成功的媒體所有者和經營者。沒有人能夠懷疑默多克的果敢、遠見和執行手腕：他征服了英國小報市場，通過整合製片廠和電視臺實現媒體的垂直整合，打破了三大臺壟斷美國電視業的局面，是衛星電視領域偉大的先驅者之一，還創立了一個偏向保守-民粹主義觀點的美國新聞臺——默多克之所以急於用120億美元全資收購英國天空廣播(BSkyB)，就是爲了減少新聞集團(News Corp)對福克斯新聞頻道(Fox News)的依賴，後者由羅傑•艾爾斯(Roger Ailes)領導，支持茶黨(Tea Party)。同時，必須承認的是，《華爾街日報》(Wall St Journal)是默多克迄今收購併且實際上改進的唯一高質素媒體。