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Words Mean 'Nothing' To Murdoch

Thumb160X 483584A1F3138Fc31C499F7C9549B462The dreadful Bancrofts, while enjoying the diversification of their wealth out of Dow Jones stock, have already started complaining about the company's new owner, Rupert Murdoch. "Words mean nothing to him, unless they're his," the doyenne of the family, Jane Cox MacElree, tells Portfolio. A futile complaint from an heiress, but MacElree has a way with words herself.

5:12 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Nick Denton
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  • Image of mathnet mathnet at 05:16 PM on 04/23/08
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    That would explain why he's always talking to himself! If talking to himself were something people were always making fun of him for!

  • Image of moff moff at 05:28 PM on 04/23/08
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    It's kind of like "Our culture cannot be so debased as to give a television platform to a woman who pretends to be a Star magazine journalist, one who claims to design handbags, and the third an heir to a Sun Microsystems dynasty that we've never heard of," but with older money.

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