Lachlan Murdoch quotes
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“We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.”
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“Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.”
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“The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.”
-- Lachlan MurdochSource : "Murdoch junior attacks 'snobs'" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.
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“I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.”
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“There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.”
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“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.”
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“The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.”
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“The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.”
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
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“Even God cannot change the past.”
Source : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b
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“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”
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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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“Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.”
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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