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The real Rupert Murdoch, by Kelvin MacKenzie

The BBC documentary on Rupert Murdoch is pure one-sided bile, says Kelvin MacKenzie

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

For more than four decades I have been around Rupert Murdoch. In that time he employed me in both London and New York, invested in my business ideas and ultimately fired me.

It was always rock ’n’ roll around Rupert and that’s the way I liked it. So you would have thought that when the BBC made its current three-part documentary on him, it might have come to me for my views.

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