Not a small point. The NY Post would have closed had Rupert not taken it over. However, that would mean that he controlled both a TV channel (channel 5) and a newspaper in the same market which was forbidden. Ted Kennedy got the law changed because so many NY Post employees were of Irish extraction. Kennedy was no fan of Murdoch but Irish Americans were his people.
Not a small point. The NY Post would have closed had Rupert not taken it over. However, that would mean that he controlled both a TV channel (channel 5) and a newspaper in the same market which was forbidden. Ted Kennedy got the law changed because so many NY Post employees were of Irish extraction. Kennedy was no fan of Murdoch but Irish Americans were his people.
cf Dennis Potter, "I call my cancer Rupert." from 1994:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVrK38xI-A&t=28s