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At VMworld this year, both in San Francisco and Barcelona, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced the concept of the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC). This builds on the concept that as more and more of the Data Center becomes virtualized (servers, desktops), delivering greater cost-savings and agility to customers, software-defined automation and functionality (network, security, storage, backup) become the next logical steps to help IT deliver greater value to the business.
As with any new technology or vision, there are often many questions about how this will impact the market, how it will affect IT organizations. Wikibon did a nice job providing their view on "Software-led Infrastructure". It's one of many attempts that I've seen to start trying to put a scope around this concept. Some portions are agreed upon, while others are creating some headaches.
I created this short FAQ to help answer some of those questions:
1. VMware is using a new term, "Software-Defined Datacenter" (SDDC), at the center of the 2012 conference. What is Software-Defined Datacenter?
[Steve Herrod blog]. Software Defined Data Center is VMware's vision that greater business value can be created from IT when intelligent software is abstracted from standardized hardware. In the simplest technical definition, it is the separation (or abstraction) of the "control plane" (configuration, topology awareness, management, operations) from the "data plane" (moving data, storing data).
1a. Is there a clear spelling of this term?
- Meh. Maybe, but it will have at least 3-5 variations in 2013. Just call it "SDDC" and save yourself a lot of auto-correct headaches.
2. Is there a clear, agreed upon definition (or standard) for Software-Defined Datacenter at this time?
- Software-Defined Datacenter is not defined by an existing standards body (eg. IETF, ITU, NIST), but rather it is vision for the evolution of how Data Center environments will become more flexible in responding to business demands. SDDC builds upon the abstraction that server virtualization has created and extends this to broader elements of the Data Center (eg. network, storage), as well as expanding the roll that automation will play in the future.
3. How is "Software-Defined Datacenter" different than "Cloud"?
- Cloud (or Cloud Computing) is fundamentally a new operational model for IT, where resources are delivered on-demand. While Cloud uses technologies such as virtualization or converged infrastructure, it's primarily about the shift in delivery and consumption of IT services. Software Defined Data Center is the next evolution of the underlying technology, where software delivers greater levels of intelligence and value, on top of standardized hardware.
4. Does Software-Defined Datacenter eliminate the need for traditional Data Center hardware?
- No. There will still be a need for physical serves (CPU, memory), network devices to connect ports and deliver bandwidth, and devices that can store data on flash/disk/tape. But the trend in the industry is that these devices are becoming more standardized on x86 chips, mass produced memory/disks and mass produced ASICs. This trend should allow faster, more simplified "fabrics" (interconnecting servers, networks and storage) to be built, with the intelligence for policy, security, operations to continue to move into software, which is faster to develop and adapt to changing business requirements. Leading companies have been shifting their product strategies to embrace this trend for the last few years.
5. Which market segments does Software-Defined Datacenter target, or which use cases?
- Software-Defined Datacenter technology are applicable to markets of all sizes (Enterprise, Mid-Market, Service Provider), but the initial adopters have been large Service Providers that are attempting to solve challenges with large-scale Data Centers. As the competition for Public and Hybrid Cloud services increases (Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Microsoft, Cloud Service Providers), the need to drive greater operational efficiency, and associated costs and time-to-market, is pushing them to solve problems in new software-centric ways.
- As more Enterprise and Mid-Market customers adopt Private Cloud and deliver IT-as-a-Service, I also expect SDDC technologies to evolve to solve challenges at different scale, as well as user-centric challenges such as BYOD.
6. How will Software-Defined Datacenter impact IT organizations?
- Even more than ever, the current era of IT is ultimately defined by rapid change, in terms of new devices (smartphones, tablets), new application consumption models (PaaS, SaaS), or converging technology silos (virtualization, converged infrastructure). Software-Defined Datacenter is the next step in converging functional areas, while attempting to give IT the ability to respond to business challenges faster.
7. Is Software-Defined Datacenter a competitive threat to traditional hardware companies?
- As mentioned above, Software-Defined Datacenter does not eliminate the need for physical hardware within the Data Center. Rather it is a vision to enable customers to better take advantage of the trend towards delivering software intelligence on standardized hardware. As with many technology transitions, there are opportunities to evolve technology portfolios, evolve business models and unlock new partnership opportunities.
8. Is Software-Defined Datacenter explicitly linked with open-source technologies such as OpenStack, OpenFlow or Open vSwitch?
- While there are open-source projects today that will have an influence on Software-Defined Datacenters, by no means does this mean that this is the only delivery mechanism for customers to obtain the technology needed for this IT technology evolution. A few examples of this:
- VMware's acquisition of Nicira - while Nicira was a major contributor to the OpenStack Quantum project (network virtualization) and the Open vSwitch project, which are both open-source, their core NVP product was a commercial offering.
- OpenFlow is a standards-based protocol for network virtualization that can be implemented by any vendor, for either open-source or commercial products.
- "Project Razor" is an open-source project that was jointly created by EMC and Puppet Labs to deliver advanced server and application automation for Data Center and Cloud environments. The software can be used with either commercial products (eg. VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, etc.) or open-source projects (OpenStack, KVM, CloudFoundry)
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Rupert Murdoch doesn't like the BBC
And sometimes the BBC doesn't seem to like Rupert Murdoch either.
Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his assault on the old "decadent" elites of Britain.
And I thought it would be interesting to put up some of the high points.
It is also a good way to examine how far his populist rhetoric is genuine, and how far its is a smokescreen to disguise the interests of another elite.
As a balanced member of the BBC - I leave it to you to decide.
Murdoch first appears in the BBC archive in a short fragment without commentary shot in 1968. It shows him ambling into the City of London on his way to see Sir Humphrey Mynors who was head of the City Takeover Panel
Murdoch was going to ask Sir Humphrey for permission to take over the News of the World. Then he is interviewed afterwards.
The News of the World was a salacious rag, but it was run by Sir William Carr who was a member of an old establishment family. He had already received a hostile bid from the publisher Robert Maxwell. Carr hated Maxwell because he was not British (he was Czech).
Then Murdoch arrived. He wasn't British either, but he told Sir William he would buy the paper but they would run it jointly together.
Maxwell warned Sir William not to trust Murdoch. He told him - "You will be out before your feet touch the ground".
Sir William replied - "Bob, Rupert is a gentleman"
But Lady Carr began to worry. She took Rupert Murdoch out to lunch in Mayfair. She reported that he had little small talk, no sense of humour and that he had lit up a cigar before the first course.
The BBC got interested in Murdoch - and they put out a profile of him. It was shot with him at work and at home in Australia. It has a great interview with Murdoch's secretary about what a sensitive man he is - and how upset he gets when he has to fire someone.
The News of the World battle ended at a showdown at the shareholders meeting in January 1969. The BBC had a camera inside. Here are some of the shots - again without any commentary.
The shareholders were being asked to accept Murdoch's offer.
It has great bits with Robert Maxwell huffing and puffing about how Murdoch hasn't played by the rules. Murdoch's response - "Yesterday Mr Maxwell called me a moth-eaten kangaroo. I'd like to point out that I haven't yet got to that stage"
Robert Maxwell would go on to become one of the greatest criminals in British business history. And then he would fall off a boat in the Atlantic and drown in 1991
But Robert Maxwell was right in his warning. Within three months Murdoch forced Sir William Carr out - and took over complete control.
Carr died in 1977. Murdoch offered to pay for a memorial service. But a proud Lady Carr refused.
The British establishment decided Murdoch was not a gentleman. And then he did something much worse. He announced he was going to publish the memoirs of Christine Keeler in the News of the World. Keeler was a "model" whose liaison with a government minister John Profumo in 1963 had ruined Harold MacMillan's government.
But since then Profumo had redeemed himself in the eyes of the establishment by going off to work for a charity in the east end of London. So when the News of the World published the sordid details of the affair, the whole of London society was scandalised. Murdoch was unearthing a scandal that should have been dead and buried, and destroying one of their own.
And, they said, he was doing it with the sole interest of lining his own pocket. Murdoch was seen as sleazy and destructive.
And this is where his monstrous image began. The man who had first taught Murdoch journalism on the Daily Express in the 1950s summed it up:
"The trouble is - Rupert was regarded as the Supreme Satan"
And he had also just bought the Sun.
So the BBC decided to make a longer, more probing profile. And to do it they sent a key member of the broadcasting elite - David Dimbleby.
The film is surprisingly fair - given the outrage. Dimbleby puts the accusations to Murdoch, but he also flirts with him, and with Murdoch's wife Anna. It is fascinating to watch Murdoch's face as Dimbleby does this. You can see him beginning to realise just how the British establishment really operates.
The Canadian in spectacles who appears first is Lord Thomson of Fleet - head of a global newspaper empire. He owned the Times in Britain.
The man chairing the editorial conference with Murdoch is the News of the World editor Stafford Somerfield. He was a legendary Fleet Street figure. A few months later Murdoch would sack him.
Somerfield then went off and edited a magazine about pedigree dogs - and became a judge at Crufts.
This rejection by the British establishment was one of the main reasons why Murdoch decided to leave Britain in 1973. He took his family and went to live in New York while still running the News of the World and the Sun in Britain. He talked about his reasons in an interview he gave to a left-wing journalist called Alexander Cockburn in 1976 in the Village Voice.
Although, as the consummate newsman, Murdoch turns it round and portrays it as him rejecting them. And you can see his guiding myth beginning to take shape here - the revolutionary outsider against the decadent British system.
Then in 1981 Rupert Murdoch returned to Britain and took his revenge. He bought the Times.
It was an act that united both the liberal elites and many old Tories in shock and outrage. This got worse when Mrs Thatcher's government allowed the takeover to proceed without it being referred to the Monopolies Commission. Under law this should have happened, but the government excused it with the flimsy excuse that neither the Times nor the Sunday Times actually made money.
There was a growing sense that Murdoch was now manipulating British politicians for his own personal gain. So the BBC decided to investigate Murdoch's business and personal background.
A Panorama was made called "Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?" It was in two parts. First is a film which tells the story of Murdoch's rise to power in Australia, Britain and America. And then he is interviewed live in the studio by yet again - David Dimbleby.
The film is tough. And Murdoch is made to sit and watch it in the studio as he waits for the interview. It lays out and reports all the accusations that would become the foundation for future criticism of the way Murdoch both built and ran his media empire.
-That he takes over intelligent newspapers and turns them into trash. As the ex-editor of the New York Post says - "he took it towards a readership we believed didn't exist"
-That his critics say he turns the news reporting in his newspapers into a propaganda wing of his chosen editorial line, and then uses that to destroy politicians he doesn't like and help elect those he does.
- It describes the scandal in America when Murdoch got a massive favourable loan from the US government just after he had endorsed Jimmy Carter in the New York primary. Murdoch denies there was any connection.
- And it reports the outrage in New York over the sensational way his newspapers reported the serial Killer Son of Sam. Headlines personally overseen by Murdoch that seemed, it was alleged by other journalists, to turn a brutal killer into a celebrity.
- And it gave the American liberals a chance to reveal that they too now hated Rupert Murdoch as much as the British elites. "He is a force for evil" says the head of the Columbia Journalism review rather smugly.
And then Murdoch is given a chance to respond. Here are the parts of the interview where Murdoch takes on those allegations and responds with what was now his central argument.
That he is engaged in a war on elitism - both on journalism in America and the "typical piece of slanting and elitism" that he has just had to watch. Made by the BBC.
It now became his mantra. Anything that was "elitist" could be a legitimate target.
In 1986 Murdoch moved all his operations out of Fleet street to Wapping. The print unions went on strike - only to discover they had fallen into his trap. Murdoch promptly sacked them. The unions, he said, were another part of the decadent elites that were preventing Murdoch performing his proper role - making sure the market system served the people properly.
There was massive TV coverage of the outrage. But the BBC made an interesting programme that looked beyond Murdoch's rhetoric and linked the move to Wapping to what Murdoch was doing in America.
Murdoch had bought Twentieth Century Fox and then, in the months before Wapping, a chain of TV stations called Metromedia (they would become Fox TV). He was massively in debt, and the only way for his empire to survive, it was alleged, was to get more money out of his original purchases - the News of the World and the Sun.
The BBC programme was made by Robert Harris. He went and interviewed one of the American bankers involved in the deal - from Drexel Burnham Lambert - who says that the move to Wapping immediately increased the value of the British papers by over 300%.
Or as one of the union men says in the programme - "British workers are being forced to lose their jobs to fund his investments in America"
In 1989 - on the 20th anniversary of buying the Sun - Murdoch helped write an editorial that trumpeted his vision of himself as a revolutionary:
'The Establishment does not like the Sun. Never has
There is a growing band of people in positions of influence and privilege who want OUR newspaper to suit THEIR private convenience. They wish to conceal from readers' eyes anything that they find annoying or embarrassing.
But the liberal elite were already fighting a counterattack. It had begun with the chat-show host Russell Harty the year before as he lay dying in a hospital bed from hepatitis.
Harty was a homosexual who had been hounded by the News of the World. With his illness this had turned into a media frenzy - with reporters from all the tabloids pursueing him in hospital, posing as junior doctors demanding see Harty's medical notes, and photographers renting a flat opposite his hotel room.
At Harty's funeral in 1988 the playwright Alan Bennett publicly accused the tabloid press of accelerating his friend's death. "The gutter press finished him"
The Sun chose to reply:
'Stress did not kill Russell Harty. The truth is that he died from a sexually transmitted disease.
The press didn't give it to him. He caught it from his own choice. And by paying young rent boys he broke the law.
Some - like ageing bachelor Mr Bennett - can see no harm in that. He has no family.
But what if it had been YOUR son Harty had bedded?'
The BBC decided to quiz Rupert Murdoch. And they chose not David Dimbleby but their main attack dog.
Terry Wogan.
Murdoch was agreeing to interviews at the time because he was promoting his new Sky TV.
It is a very odd episode. Wogan starts off in an embarrassed way - asking Murdoch "is it difficult for you to keep a grasp of reality?". Then he attacks him in a chat show way about his behaviour towards "other chat show hosts" and he manages to get the audience to boo Murdoch.
The only other guest on the programme was someone from the very heart of the British establishment. The Duke of Westminster. Wogan interviews him in a creepy way about the Duke's good works for charity.
A balanced programme.
Here are some parts of the Murdoch interview.
And then came the Sun's distorted reporting of the Hillsborough tragedy which disgusted even some of Murdoch's most fervent supporters .
All this was a disaster for Murdoch the revolutionary. When the 1992 general election began Labour announced that if they won they would introduce new cross-media ownership rules - and force Mr Murdoch to break up his empire.
This would mean he would either have to give up his new dream - the satellite TV station Sky - or he would have to sell his newspapers.
One of Murdoch's biographers says that no other company in Britain stood to lose so much from a Labour victory in 1992 as News Corporation.
And the Sun launched a massive campaign against Labour. Ending on the day before polling with a famous cover. While inside on page three there was an overweight old woman in a swimsuit with the caption - "Here's what Page Three will look like under Labour"
When Murdoch heard the news that John Major had been re-elected he was on the lot at Twentieth Century Fox. He said two words:
"We won"
The key to Murdoch is how you interpret the word WE. Did he mean "We the people" - and that he truly is a populist revolutionary?
Or did he mean by "we" the new financial elite that had risen up in the 1980s that was using debt and junk bonds to break into the old corporations and businesses?
One man who thought he had the answer was one of Murdoch's closest allies who a few years later would come to believe he had been ruthlessly betrayed by Murdoch.
He was the journalist Woodrow Wyatt. Wyatt had been very close to Mrs Thatcher throughout the 1980s and he had become what he proudly called "Rupert's Fixer". But secretly Wyatt was writing a diary every day recording not just his life within the establishment but also his day to day dealings with Rupert Murdoch.
The diaries are wonderful. And in them Murdoch is a dark, silent figure - always listening on the other end of a phone somewhere in America or Australia as Wyatt tells him the inner secrets of the powerful people who run Britain.
But then - in 1995 - Murdoch begins to change. He decides he likes Tony Blair and tells Wyatt he may support him at the coming election. Wyatt can't believe it. He had thought that Murdoch would always support the Conservatives.
And then Murdoch does something worse. He tells the editor of the News of the World to cut back on the column that he had allowed Wyatt to write every week.
Wyatt is in despair. There is a wonderful moment in the diaries when Wyatt sleeps all night on the floor of his study next to the phone waiting for Murdoch to ring.
He never does.
And then - towards the end - Wyatt pours out the truth (as he sees it) about Murdoch. It is in a diatribe to one of Murdoch's American advisers, the economist Irwin Stelzer.
Wyatt cannot believe the treachery. He was the man who fixed it so Mrs Thatcher wouldn't refer the Times purchase to the Monopolies Commission. And now Murdoch is betraying him and turning to Blair.
Like a flash of lightning on a dark night Wyatt believes he sees Murdoch's true relationship to power.
And then in 1997 when Murdoch comes out for Blair, Wyatt has only one line.
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This is brilliant, what a story.
Is the Robert Harris mentioned here the same one who wrote The Ghost?
@The Art Teacher.
Indeed it is - Robert Harris was a journalist with the BBC until the late 80s - Mr Curtis has used Harris' stuff on this blog before.
This has kept me up far too late ! Awesome - beautifully done. I'm very sceptical about the Beeb, particularly in regard to it's slavish Warmist and (above all) pro-newbuild nuclear power stance, but I've always been totally allergic to Murdoch and his megalomania ... Adam's piece here powerfully validates that instinct. I'll Tweet the link to this page right now.
BTW, Murdoch never looked shiftier than when, in the early days, expounding his great belief in press and media diversity [first clip]
Brilliant, thank you.
You should try to get this published in some newspapers, it deserves to be much more widely.
...read, much more widely read!
Which newspaper would publish Adam's work? I don't think newspapers are interested in insightful analysis and documentary, but rather in selling newspapers. The BBC can afford Adam, but they don't put him on prime time where he belongs.
I also notice that the BBC can afford Charlie Brooker but again not on prime time with his excellent new series How TV Ruined Your Life, which so reminds me of the work of Adam Curtis, that I can only equate Brooker as Adam's disciple.
And now as the Arab world falls into crisis, I think it is time for Adam to get his serious head on and examine the myths and legends that the West persists in, supporting one set of dictatorships and going to war with another set. Also the myths and legends that the Arab world persists in. We might be heading for a clash of delusions.
When Murdoch mentions communists he means liberal pinko BBC intellectuals in their ivory towers like you Adam ; )
Adam, an excellent post.
Back in October 2009, I pointed out how Rupert Murdoch and his News International media empire were switching their alliance from the Labour Party to the Conservatives.
David Yelland was Murdoch's editor at The Sun between 1998 & 2003. In a recent article in the Guardian, Yelland described the threat posed to his former bosses at News International by the Lib Dem "surge" whilst taking shots at the media's Tory bias propaganda.
In the run up to the Iraq invasion, Rupert Murdoch and his 175 newspaper editors worldwide all backed Bush's policies in the Middle East, and were prominent in whipping up a frenzy to go to war.
It got even stranger when a FOI request showed that Rupert Murdoch had phoned Downing Street on several occasions to speak with Tony Blair, the very week it was decided that Britain would invade Iraq.
This came on the back of Murdoch saying, that invading Iraq would be of a benefit if:
"The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in the any country."
the relationships between the media elite and the two main political parties have become closer and closer to the point where, now, one is indistinguishable from the other. Indeed, it is difficult not to think that the lunatics have stopped writing about the asylum and have actually taken it over.
We now live in an era when very serious men and women stay out of politics because our national discourse is conducted by populists with no interest in politics whatsoever. What we have in the UK is a coming together of the political elite and the media in a way that makes people outside London or outside those elites feel disenfranchised and powerless.
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Excellent Adam!
Thoroughly harrowing and informative. Plenty of information that I had never heard of before, so thank you. He must be stopped at all costs.
Given the current situation in Egypt at the moment and that you touched on popular civil unrest in the 1990s in "Power of Nightmares" maybe you could maybe put up a posting to see if there are any parallels with what's happening now what happened in 20 odd years ago. Or a piece on Mubarak altogether? Just an idea, it would be thrilling to see what could be said about this because yet again the mainstream media's collective amnesia to what happened lot so long ago is extremely irritating. You do a great job of filling the gap.
Keep em' coming.
@Egbert - why do you think the US is under some myth about Mubarak? The US knows who it deals with, few diplomats if any are under any illusions about the governments they work with. The US has supported Mubarak for a number of reasons, but it doesn't get to 'decide' what kind of government a different country has, except for maybe a few historical cases where it helped engineer a coup. Egypt is invaluable because it made peace with Israel and keeps the other regional Arab powers in check by so doing; that's the main reason.
Neither were the Arab public under any misconceptions about the government they've been living under for 30 years, but it's an oppressive government and it's a big deal for people who have never lived with much democratic freedom to have a popular uprising.
I've been noticing how people have been making posts where they think they have the real story, but whole governments and peoples have it wrong. Why do you think you have information that other people don't? Surely at least the Wikileaks diplomatic cables would show you the real thoughts of the diplomats about the officials they interact with. They are no dummies, and they have real expertise in their particular region.
The BBC is 'pro-newbuild nuclear power'? Relative to ... Greenpeace?
I usually ignore anything by the BBC about Rupert Murdoch. However, this is Mr Curtis and we should be in safe hands.
Definite shades of The Mayfair Set with this post. It could almost be a footnote to The Set.
Hi Hotter Than
---->"What we have in the UK is a coming together of the political elite and the media in a way that makes people outside London or outside those elites feel disenfranchised and powerless."
Charlie Brooker's Newswipe had a short piece by Peter Oborne giving an example of this coming together. It is on Youtube, search for "Peter Oborne - Government Controlled Media." Youtube user Paulio20 has uploaded a copy.
That Wogan interview is uncomfortable, a bit like watching David Mitchell on 10 O'Clock Live.
There was rather wonderful story about Murdoch planning to line up behind Obama in the last US election and telling Fox to go easy, but they refused. A true modern Frankenstein's monster / Pandora's Box (pick your myth) moment.
Murdoch has always been to the right, but as I think you make clear he's ultimately a pragmatist: he'll simply back whoever he thinks will win. Sadly most politicians are too gutless, dim or compromised to take him on. Although Cable has inadvertently made things pretty awkward for the Tories -
I think it is a struggle for anyone to focus on power and 'results' while remaining reflective and radically doubful enough to maintain ideological integrity. Murdoch is intelligent enough to build a coherent philosophy but the game of business is too absorbing and addictive to allow this - its demands come first, just as a junkie may rationalise away all moral demands not to shoplift or steal out of mum's purse.
Murdoch lives in a grey world and has no moral beacon even to steer by; his morality was always going to degrade into hodge-podge nonsense.
It is wrong however to contend that he is just evil and only cares about power. Amoral humans would not care about power once they had secured all the necessities and luxuries of life, which he attained many years ago. The love of power is related to the love of prestige and status, and this is always inextricably liked with morality, hence every powerful person worries about his 'legacy'.
Although there is a real thing that can be called 'the British establishment' Murdoch has created his own image of this and set it up as a moral antagonist, not so much for pragmatic reasons but to sustain his own sense of purpose. If he was a real pragmatic Vulcan he would not have conceived of such a colourful and silly crusade.
I think it is obvious to everone standing outside the influence of his personal existential dilemma that he is fighting to replace one establishment with another that is if anything even worse.
Just watching the scenes in Egypt, complete chaos, pro-government thugs attacking peaceful protestors, no army intervention, no police intervention, no ambulances to carry away the injured.
There are worse things than sociopaths that prosper within free liberal countries. What about the people who buy Murdoch's papers or subscribe to his Satellite channels?
The social psychological state of "Ain't it Awful" is not something foreign or alien to our western civilisation, it's something that will be coming here soon, as politicians continue on in their moral vacuum passively unable to form any leadership under the pressure of business interests.
Here is a pretty damn good article about western myths and their ignorance about revolutions and revolts in history, and the current situation in Egypt:
Good grief, Egbert, were you pi**ed or just pi**ed-off when you wrote this:
"There are worse things than sociopaths that prosper within free liberal countries. What about the people who buy Murdoch's papers or subscribe to his Satellite channels?"
Excellent article Adam
Thank you
Notable too that Murdoch was very happy to Kowtow to the Chinese government in the area of censorship to establish a presence in that part of the world.
How does that sit with 'challenging elites', you don't get more 'elite' than the Chinese Communist (in name only) Party?
He was also a backer of US Politician 'Pitchfork' Pat Robertson, a far right 'Christian Conservative', a sort of early 'Tea Party' type.
Sitting happily it seems with jiggling titties on page 3 of the Sun.
According to Rupe, 'he (was) right on all the basic issues'.
Still, the good people of Liverpool made their views on Rupe's rag clear, boycott it.
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