Rupert Murdoch

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been making headlines of his own recently.
The Chairman and CEO of News Corporation announced the News Of The World would be closing on Sunday, following phone-hacking and corruption claims.
The 80-year-old, who inherited a taste for the press from his father, is no stranger to controversy.
He began his career aged 22 when his father Sir Keith, one of Australia's most distinguished newspapermen, died and left his son a half share in two Adelaide papers.
Born in Australia in 1931, Oxford-educated Murdoch had a natural flair for popular journalism and a tendency to fall out with his editors.
Although he spent much of his career denying he interfered too much.
Political manipulation
"I think that I give my editors tremendous freedom and the only people who claim that I don't give them enough freedom now are the people who wouldn't know how to use it," he once said.
There was steel beneath the boyish exterior, as the British discovered when he arrived in 1968 to buy the News of the World.
Within a year he had added the ailing Sun newspaper, relaunching it as an irreverent tabloid.
Circulation soared thanks to its sex-and-sensation formula and it went on to became Britain's biggest-selling daily paper.
But his papers were frequently accused of political manipulation, distorting the news to ensure his political allies won elections.
His critics, of which there are many, have called him a vulgarian and a cynic who had degraded standards of journalism by pandering to a sensation-seeking public.
His loyal admirers have always heaped praise onto him, applauding the businessman for his ruthlessness, energy, and astonishing willingness to take risks.
In 1986, by now owner of the Times and Sunday Times as well, Murdoch moved all four newspaper titles into a heavily fortified printing plant, and sacked 5,000 workers.
The ensuing battles with pickets outside Fortress Wapping heralded a revolution in Fleet Street, and an end to over manning and restrictive practices.
A television revolution followed. Already the owner of the Sun, he went on to introduce Sky, the satellite TV service to Britain.
Setbacks
Despite critics calling it downmarket rubbish, satellite dishes soon became commonplace and Sky gobbled up its rival, BSB, to become hugely profitable.
Before long, Sky could afford to bid more than hundreds of millions of pounds for the television rights to Premier League football.

Now, more than 21 years later, Murdoch is looking to expand once again by securing full control of BSkyB.
In the US, where Murdoch had bought 20th Century Fox, he won a bigger gamble still, establishing America's fourth television network.
Along the way, he became an American citizen to circumvent rules banning foreigners from owning television stations.
Fox shows, like the Simpsons cartoon series, sold around the world, but Murdoch continued to suffer setbacks.
In the 1980s his empire nearly crashed when its debts mounted to a staggering eight billion dollars.
He survived to buy Star TV in Hong Kong, broadcasting by satellite to the whole of Asia.
When the digital revolution swept television, promising many more channels, pay-per-view programmes, home shopping and home banking, Murdoch's TV stations were at the forefront.
But in Britain his monopoly of digital broadcasting technology led to fruitless calls for new rules to limit power. He dismissed any suggestion that he was too powerful.
Global media mogul
"People say we're anti-competitive, when we do something which is open for anybody in the world to do," he once said.
He closed down one newspaper, the loss-making Today in 1995, partly out of pique when the British government passed laws limiting how much of the media one company can control.
During the Conservative's reign in the 80s and early 90s, Murdoch's publications were generally supportive of the government, but that all changed when John Major eventually left Number 10.
Prior to his election, Murdoch invited Tony Blair to Australia. He also told his papers to tone down their attacks on Labour.
The Sun went further, to the surprise of many, endorsing Blair at the 1997 election.
But Murdoch backed winners and made it clear that once the Labour Party's fortunes declined, it would switch allegiance.
Murdoch's involvement with politicians does not stop at the British government.
He has had dealings with Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, US President Barack Obama and the former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over the years.
Married three times, he divorced his second wife, Anna, after 32 years together and tied the knot with TV executive Wendy Deng in June 1999.
Murdoch has always put his business interests first.
He has taken huge gambles and created whole new industries.
In the process, his opponents claimed, he manipulated governments, lowered standards and sidestepped regulations, to become the world's first truly global media mogul.
He was stridently anti-monarchist in his views, rejecting the hereditary principle.
Yet his sons Lachlan and James are primed to take up the reins of power in the Murdoch dynasty.
Last year he was ranked the 13th most powerful person in the world in a list compiled by business magazine Forbes.
Thought to be worth around $6.3 billion, he is ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world.