Murdoch and Ailes ' replies have included Murdoch's statement that Fox has " given room to both sides, whereas only one side had it before ".

It was because of gamesmanship and insistence on his rights, as he saw them, that Grace never enjoyed good relations with Australians in general, though he had personal friends like Billy Midwinter and Billy Murdoch.

ONdigital also failed to realise that Sky had cast off its downmarket image and believed there was considerable public antipathy towards Sky ( and Rupert Murdoch ); but this appeared to matter much less than they had hoped.

On May 1, 2007, Dow Jones released a statement confirming that News Corporation, led by Rupert Murdoch, had made an unsolicited offer of $ 60 per share, or $ 5 billion, for Dow Jones.

By the time James was ransomed in 1424, Murdoch had succeeded his father to the dukedom and the governorship of Scotland.

The king's rancor directed at Duke Murdoch had its roots in the past — Duke Robert was responsible for his brother David's death and neither Robert nor Murdoch exerted themselves in negotiating James's release and must have left the king with the suspicion that they held aspirations for the throne itself.

Both Watt and Murdoch were probably aware of each other because of their connections with James Boswell, who had made several visits to Watt's workshop at Soho.

This early industrial espionage did not operate all in one direction and Murdoch was often required to undertake inspections of competitors ' engines, either to determine whether patents had been infringed or to assess the effectiveness of those engines.

While based in Cornwall Murdoch had to deal with a wide range of mechanical problems related to steam engines, and this led him to make practical improvements to the basic steam engine designs used by Boulton and Watt.

By this time Murdoch had already built a working model of his steam carriage, which was held in the Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham until its closure in 1997 and is now at Thinktank, Birmingham's new science museum ; accounts exist from witnesses who " saw the model steam carriage run around Murdoch's living room in Redruth in 1784 ".

This model was not the only one made by Murdoch as he continued experimenting with the design and by August 1786 had made at least one other model, of a different size, which we know of.

One such was the discovery, first recorded in 1784, of iron cement made from sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride and iron filings, apparently discovered when Murdoch observed that these 2 components had accidentally mixed in his tool bag and formed a solid mass.

In 1795 Murdoch developed a replacement for isinglass, a precipitate made from sturgeon used in the clarifying of beer to remove impurities, which had to be imported from Russia at great expense.

Mr Murdoch, however, fruitful in resource, went to the gasworks where he filled a bladder which he had with him, and, placing it under his arm like a bagpipe, he discharged through the stem of an old tobacco pipe a stream of gas which enabled us to walk in safety to Medlock Bank.

In 1817 Murdoch moved into a large new house he had built outside Birmingham.

Frontman Stuart Murdoch claimed he had fallen in love with the romance of this former closed station when passing it once.

This village has had a number of notable residents including musician Billy Joel, Academy and Tony Award-winning lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and television personality Sean Hannity.

Murdoch had his radio break in the BBC comedy programme Band Waggon ( 1938 – 40 ) as part of a double act with Arthur Askey, acquiring the nickname " Stinker " as a result.

Murdoch had a regular role as Uncle Tom, the briefless senior barrister of chambers, in Rumpole of the Bailey ; this being his last TV role.

On 1 August 2009, Southampton announced that Murdoch had been appointed as a part-time goalkeeping coach and scout, but he was " relieved of his duties " along with Alan Pardew on 30 August 2010.

He adopted the epicyclic sun and planet gear system suggested by an employee William Murdoch, only later reverting, once the patent rights had expired, to the more familiar crank seen on most engines today.

To gain FCC approval of Fox's purchase of Metromedia's television holdings, once the stations of the old DuMont network, Murdoch had to become a U. S. citizen.

A 2007 Journal article quoted charges that Murdoch had made and broken similar promises in the past.

Pneumatic capsule transportation was originally invented by William Murdoch.

Isinglass was originally made exclusively from sturgeon, especially Beluga sturgeon, until the 1795 invention by William Murdoch of a cheap substitute using cod.

The term gasometer was originally coined by William Murdoch, the inventor of gas lighting, in the early 19th century.

To an extent, this was to be mitigated by ministers having offices in their own departments, originally in the east and west blocks ( also designed by Murdoch ).

The foyer of the tower was originally planned to be an open-air forecourt between the building and the remains of the Palace Hotel, however extensive aeroelastic wind testing of the structure by the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Murdoch University forced this area to be covered with a glass canopy.

Murdoch questions the dark urban environment, and discovers — through clues and interviews with his family — that he was originally from a coastal town called Shell Beach.

The magazine originally had offices in Los Angeles and New York and was published by Rupert Murdoch.

It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as " the world's most filmed story after Cinderella ".

He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Deakin University, Murdoch University and the University of South Carolina, and is a Professorial Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the University of Melbourne.

Murdoch remained an employee and later a partner of Boulton & Watt until the 1830s, and his reputation as an inventor has been obscured by the reputations of Boulton and Watt and the firm they founded.

There are reports that in his youth Murdoch was responsible for the construction of one of the bridges over the River Nith ; this possibly derives from his father's work in building the Craikston Bridge over Lugar Water in 1774, which William would have been involved in.

if William Murdoch is not at home he should be sent for immediately as he understands the patterns and care must be taken to avoid mistakes of which our engine shop has been too guilty.

The town and its vicinity has been used as the setting for numerous films and television programmes, including Iris about the life of Iris Murdoch starring Judi Dench ; Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway ; Kavanagh QC starring John Thaw ; ' East of Ipswich ' by Michael Palin ; Little Britain with Matt Lucas and David Walliams ; and a 1969 version of David Copperfield.

Murdoch is particularly good at conveying the atmosphere of benevolence and the apparent lack of hard feelings among the individuals that have wronged and been wronged.

Some former The Wall Street Journal reporters have said that since Rupert Murdoch bought the paper, news stories have been edited to adopt a more conservative tone, critical of Democrats.

Being and Nothingness has been compared to Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind by Iris Murdoch, who writes that continental philosophy shares the same general orientation as English analytic philosophy.

Since it was founded in 1995, the Weekly Standard has never been profitable, and has remained in business through subsidies from wealthy conservative benefactors such as former owner Rupert Murdoch.

Although the publication had,, never been profitable and reputedly lost " more than a million dollars a year ", News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch had previously dismissed the idea of selling it.

Murdoch had also been investing in newspapers on his own account, notably in Brisbane, where he bought shares in the Daily Mail and subsequently helped it to take over the rival Courier.

Maxwell had been supported by the Jackson family ( 25 % shareholders ), but Murdoch had gained the support of the Carr family ( 30 %) and then-chairman William Carr.

Maxwell accused Murdoch of employing " the laws of the jungle " to acquire the paper and said he had " made a fair and bona fide offer ... which has been frustrated and defeated after three months of manoeuvring.

The New York Evening Post would later morph into a tabloid ; the New York Post was a left-leaning afternoon tabloid under owner Dorothy Schiff from 1939 to 1976 and, since then, has been a conservative tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, while The Nation became known for its markedly liberal ( and sometimes leftist ) politics.

Murdoch House has since been fully restored and is now regularly used by the Redruth Old Cornwall Society, as well as the Cornish-American Connection and the Redruth Story Group.

Allegations that his previous support for News International and Murdoch had a financial basis have also been denied.

His appointment sparked accusations of nepotism, with some commentators and shareholders feeling that the job had not been opened to outsiders and that Murdoch was too young and inexperienced to run one of the UK ’ s top companies ( on appointment he was by far the youngest chief executive of a FTSE 100 company ).

" He admitted, " for those of us who have been warning about the tactics used by the Murdoch operation for many years – Mr Murdoch once described me as ' an enemy ' – the events of the past week have been sweet.

It emerges that Murdoch and McPherson were friends, but had not always been.