Murdoch at 80

Keith Rupert Murdoch turns 80 on March 11. While he regularly makes fun of other old people—particularly Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS—Murdoch’s own age is something he almost never discusses. Part of his business strategy is to project an almost frightening sense of his own permanence and invulnerability.

His mother, the grandest woman in Australia, is 103, after all. (Pay no attention to the fact that his father died at 67, that Murdoch was a heavy smoker into his 40s, and that he’s had prostate cancer.)

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