DBWI: Rupert Murdoch, Savior of the English Language...

Writers throughout the globe have heaped praise on Australian Rupert Murdoch as the "Savior of the English Language..." since the appearance of his books in 1975. But the literary world finally had its hero acknowledged when it was announced last Tuesday, that Murdoch would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.... What are your thoughts? Personally, I think it is long overdue!!

OOC: The following idea is based on Zones of Chaos (2009) by Mick Farren...
 
I think the fact he turned the News of the World from a glorified porno rag to the best selling broadsheet of all time says it all.
 
Well his constant clarion call for the book reading has done more for sales than Oprah Winfrey's "Book of the Month Club" could have ever done. Much like a modern William F. Bucley, Murdoch demonstrates the case that the "pen is mightier than the sword..."
 
I always found him a bit verbose and his prose a bit purple, but good for him.

Frankly, call it ethnocentrisism but I prefer American Southern Humorist Theodore Turner. The man is a modern-day Twain.

OOC: my wife rolled her eyes at my response. :D
 
I always found him a bit verbose and his prose a bit purple, but good for him.

Frankly, call it ethnocentrisism but I prefer American Southern Humorist Theodore Turner. The man is a modern-day Twain.

OOC: my wife rolled her eyes at my response. :D
In regards to Theodore Turner, he may seem a little mainstream for the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer nominating committees but I have to say, any list of important literary works of the second half of the 20th century seems incomplete without his "Atlanta Nights" trilogy....

Has anyone heard Murdoch speak at their college and/or university? From what I have heard, he loves to give lectures at Georgetown University and NYU....
 
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