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Rupert: Is there no stopping this man?

It is bad enough that he controls Fox News - an oxymoron if ever there was one to ascribe the word "news" to the title - and so-called newspapers like The Sun in the UK and the Daily Telegraph - both best described as rags best suited for wrapping fish and chips - but it is seems Rupert Murdoch covets the Wall Street Journal as part of his News Corp empire and securing the NY Times as well.

The Age reports on a new book about Murdoch:

"Seizing The Wall Street Journal for his News Corp media empire would be an audacious master stroke for Rupert Murdoch - unless he tops it by trying to buy The New York Times Co.

This is what Vanity Fair columnist and newly minted Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff thinks the 77-year-old media mogul will do, regardless of sound business strategy, investors and US government rules about who can own what.

"He really contemplates how he can get The New York Times," said Wolff, author of "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch."

The book, which Random House's Doubleday unit will release on Dec. 2, features Murdoch playing with the the idea of how he would run the Times Co.

"I've watched him go through the numbers, plot out a Times merger with the Journal's backroom operations and fantasise about the staff quitting en masse," Wolff wrote."

Read the none-too-flattering piece about Murdoch here.

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