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muriel_volestrangler

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10. Murdoch came to the UK in the late sixties

Reply to Initech (Reply #8)

Mon May 11, 2026, 03:48 PM

21 hrs ago

He bought The Sun (a tabloid), which became the best selling UK paper. He then bought The Times and The Sunday Times, the "papers of record" (before he got his hands on them, anyway). There's a reason the playwright Dennis Potter called his terminal cancer "Rupert" in 1994.

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