[SLAP!] Thanks, Rupert, we needed that
: Rupert Murdoch says we Americans have an inferiority complex and should stop fretting about being liked. He doesn’t — and look where it got him. When Murdoch arrived in the U.S., he was villified as the grim reaper come to kill journalism. Friends of mine who went to work at the Sun-Times in Chicago after he bought it were treated like Tevye’s daughter after she married outside the faith: They were as good as dead. Well, Rupert still gets criticized and it still doesn’t bother him. He is the king of cable news. He is about to be the king of satellites. He has a hit network. He runs America’s most entertaining paper. Maybe we should take his advice:
“We worry about what people think about us too much in this country. We have an inferiority complex, it seems,” Murdoch said at the Milken Institute Global Conference. “I think what’s important is that the world respects us, much more important than they love us.”
