Kirk Kerkorian, the guy who owns half of Las Vegas, is an impressive 94 years old. Sumner Redstone, the head of National Amusements (the parent company of Viacom, CBS and others) is 88 and still at it thanks to his vitamins. Si Newhouse of Condé Nast is already 84 and still working, though somewhat diminished per Forbes' Jeff Bercovici. Furthermore, Rupert's still the young'un in the Worldwide Media Mogul Club. After all, Rupert's mother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, just turned 103, and she seems spry as ever. Only 175,000 hours? That's only 20 more years, meaning that Rupert's planning on dying at 90. So I've just got to see that each one of those hours is well spent." "I have lived for 613,000 hours," Murdoch told Charlie Rose in 2001. He talked through what he'd done and arrived at a conclusion, excerpted by Harper's Magazine in May 2001: "So if I’m pretty healthy and have a normal life expectancy - I'm a bit optimistic - I've got about another 175,000 hours to go, of which maybe I can spend 75,000 productively at work. As someone who's seen a lot of years, the 81-year-old has been keeping track. When the sun rises on March 11 (and the latest edition of the Sunday Sun hits newsstands in the U.K.), it will signal a new year and another chance for a fresh start for Murdoch. It was James, after all, who decided to shut down News of the World, which had apparently been Rupert's favorite property, nine months ago We've heard that the father and the son are no longer on speaking terms. And as if that weren't bad enough, the entire world has turned its back on Rupert's son James, heir apparent to the News Corp. As if entering his ninth decade weren't reason enough to remember his mortality, Rupert was forced to come to terms with widespread bad behavior in his company's News International division: hacking the phones of dead children, bribing police, handing out hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of hush money, and whatever else we have yet to hear about. His eightieth years was a hard one for Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch turns 81 years young on Sunday March 11, an accomplishment for any human being but a true milestone the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., who's had a rough go lately. After his death, there were tales of alcoholism and mental illness plaguing his grandchildren and descendants, but it wasn't until the 20th century that a pattern of tragedies begin to be noticed by the public.This article is from the archive of our partner. He was born into an aristocratic family, established a legendary business, and even lived to the age of 78! That's more than double the average life expectancy back then, according to historical demographer Jona Schellekens. No tragic curse there.īy his time's standards, Arthur Guinness actually seemed to have a great life. So, for the Guinnesses, outliving half of their children was something they likely expected. According to Our World In Data, before the 19th century, nearly half of all kids died before the age of 15, with most of the world having an average youth mortality rate of 46.2 percent. But Guinness and his family were from the 18th century, a time where the life expectancy was much lower and the child mortality rate was high. Now, by today's standards, having just a single child die would already be considered a tragedy.
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