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Article: The Twilight of the Moguls.(Business)(John Malone, Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller)
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- Newsweek
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- February 25, 2008
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Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts
John Malone helped build a generation of media titans like no other--only to cut them down to size and reveal them as mere mortals. Just ask Barry Diller.
I f the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old chestnut says, then it makes perfect sense that Barry Diller would host a swanky soiree last summer for his former boss Rupert Murdoch. They once had been on the outs: after building the Fox television network for Murdoch in the 1980s, Diller stormed off when Murdoch refused to make him a partner in his News Corp. media empire. But 15 years later, here was Diller--now a full-fledged mogul in his own right after building up ...