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BSkyB: The Deal That’s Got Rupert Murdoch Down
The media mogul may be all smiles at Wednesday’s launch for his iPad newspaper, The Daily, but he's depressed about his suddenly shaky prospects for gaining total control of something much more important—the $12 billion BSkyB. Howard Kurtz reports.
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Feb. 1 2011
5:44PM EST
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