Help me find where this quote came from....

[Spookwriter]

I'll agree that the line seems to stem from an editorial article in
the November 23, 2005 edition of Hollywood Reporter.

I can't seem to locate the exact article. However, it goes on to indicate
that the Hollywood Reporter ceased publication somewhere between
2005 and 2009. It was brought back in 2010.

I have looked at mutiple scorces and in my mind, this line does seem to
be an actual quote by Rupert Murdoch, but an excerpt from the editorial
itself, which was about Murdoch, but not by Murdoch, nor was Murdoch
directly interviewed for the article at all.

Not his quote.

 

[Spookwriter]

Further searching gives me this...

Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner have been competitors for quite some time. Murdoch launched the Fox News Channel to compete against Turner's CNN, ultimately dethroning CNN as the most popular news network on cable television.

In September 2005 the subject of Murdoch's alleged anti-competitive business practices resurfaced when Australasian media proprietor Kerry Stokes, owner of the Seven Network, instituted legal action against News Corporation and the PBL organisation, headed by Kerry Packer. The suit stems from the 2002 collapse of Stokes' planned cable TV network C7, which would have been a direct competitor to the other major Australian cable provider, Foxtel, in which News and PBL have major stakes.

............................

That was part of a much longer article, but I felt these paragraphs summed it up fairly.

Ted Turner verses Rupert Murdoch...in media bashing. Would you believe that Ted Turner is the power
behind "Hollywood Reporter"?

Would you further believe that this "editorial quote" comes directly after Murdoch wins a major court
decision against a smaller third-party media company?

So I fall back on my earlier "not a quote". It appears to be an excerpt of a few lines from a editorial
bashing Murdoch from a competitor company.

Actually I'm more interested in why do you ask? Do you check all quotes? You're a Fox fan?

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Very much NOT a FOX fan. I think Murdoch is dangerous and has been a terrible influence on the very concept of journalism in this country.

But I would NEVER use a quote or data intended for print that I could not verify from an original source. (Something FOX does constantly.)

I will not use this quote because I cannot verify its authenticity.



FOX themselves, have already misquoted me. Took things I said out of context and once attributed something my daughter (at 7) said to me. I won't do the same.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

And thank you ALL Very very much I am truly pressed for time here and really wanted to use that quote, but won't without a direct source.