Murdoch plays politics at Milken event

April 25, 2007 The News Corp. chairman and CEO said that, personally, Bush is "persuasive, strong and articulate" but that "he seems to freeze whenever a television camera appears." Motioning to Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch said, "Apart from your newspaper and mine, there's a sort of monolithic attack on him every day of the year." Also on the stage with Murdoch were Nobel Laureate economist Gary Becker; Guy Laffineur, head of debt capital markets at Calyon; and David Rubenstein, managing director of the Carlyle Group.

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