dear professor kroto, as you know, this year, mr. rupert murdoch, chairman and chief executive...
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Dear Professor Kroto, As you know, this year, Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, will be participating at the STS forum. Mr. Murdoch would like to organize a small gathering to exchange views with a few eminent scientists.TRANSCRIPT
Dear Professor Kroto, As you know, this year, Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, will be participating at the STS forum. Mr. Murdoch would like to organize a small gathering to exchange views with a few eminent scientists.
Dear Professor Kroto, As you know, this year, Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, will be participating at the STS forum. Mr. Murdoch would like to organize a small gathering to exchange views with a few eminent scientists.
Sincerely,
Koji Omi, FounderScience and Technology for Society
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Sir John Cornforth Australian Noble Laureate
“Was it pure greed that caused you to renounce your Australian Citizenship?”
“Did you lose your respect for the truth gradually or did you never have it?”
Our own discipline (Science) is founded on respect for truth, so in any case you can have no meeting of minds
Fox in the Schoolhouse: Rupert Murdoch Wants to Teach Your Kids!
News Corp.'s major move into the education business.
—By Stephanie Mencimer
Fri Sep. 23, 2011 Next month, Murdoch will make an unusual public appearance in San Francisco, delivering the keynote address at an education summit hosted by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who has lately been crisscrossing the country promoting his own version of education reform.
(On Tuesday, word of Murdoch's appearance at Bush's conference came just hours after reports that News Corp. had agreed to pay more than $4 million to the family of a 13-year-old British murder victim, Milly Dowler, whose voicemail was hacked by reporters for Murdoch's News of the World. )
Murdoch has made it very clear that he views America's public schools as a potential gold mine.
Gove UK Minister for Education singled Joel Klein out for praise. Klein was a US lawyer then running
the New York school system.
In 2010, Murdoch hired Klein for $2m a year, plus a $1m signing bonus, to launch what he called a "revolutionary, and profitable, education division".
Murdoch bought Wireless Generation, a US educational technology firm, for $360m, and gave it to Klein to run.
