10 Questions for Rupert Murdoch

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It varies country by country. I would say that people in the Islamic world are not seeing enough images of the West and how we live and have ambitions. In Iran, where people do have channels coming in from the outside, you can see the people under their religious gear wearing designer jeans. But the problem is in other places, with the jihadists and the Wahhabi sect of Muslims. Oil money is now spreading through Pakistan all the way down to Indonesia, Malaysia and Africa, helping establish madrasahs. They're teaching and brainwashing kids at a very young age nothing but their version of the Koran, hand in hand with terrorism and martyrdom.

How do you consume news every day? What's the first thing you read or watch or look at in the morning?

I read the New York Post whether at work or at breakfast. I will then look at the Wall Street Journal. Not much more than the front page and then the editorial page. Then the New York Times, about the same. That's about it. I scan the business pages to see if there's something in the New York Times that's not in the Post or the Wall Street Journal.

You depend on newspapers?

Well, I'm 75 years old.

What do you still get out of them that you can't get from other media?

If you pick up a good general newspaper, you read a lot of things you don't expect to read, much of which are important and make life more interesting.