A Conversation About Rupert Murdoch

A: I see Rupert Murdoch wants to acquire the whole of Sky. Isn't that terrible!

B: He's an old man. Allow him his little whims. He'll be dead soon. Then his empire will collapse- as empires do.

A: Still it's sad.

B: How so?

A: The neediness. The colossal and unremitting neediness...