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....being pleasant personally has nothing to do with him as a businessman. He doesn't get to be a billionaire by being a pleasant businessman.

Do a search for TCI, his old US cable company, and look at all the complaints from customers who were stuck with old cable boxes that barely worked. He calls it sweating the assets.

Anyway, this thread isn't about whether he is nice or not. It's about him rebuilding him media empire up one last time.

By the way, I met Rupert Murdoch near Embankment station in London twenty five years ago and he was extremely charming, as was Richard Branson. I met him around the same time on one of his planes as he went round handing out sweets to all the passengers. He chatted to every person on the plane. By the way, his kids were NOT flying first class.... He was asked about this several times and he explained that he would lose too much money having his family in premium seating... it was a transatlantic flight and they were toddler age...

They may all be "pleasant", but there is no way in hell I'd ever work for such a person and I'm not keen on them controlling too many companies either.