The genre-busting documentary that started a flood of issue-oriented documentaries exposes the right wing bias of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News which has been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. An in-depth look at the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the media.
Last week in an interview with The Weekend Australian, Rupert Murdoch warned that a win by Obama in next week’s US election could worsen the world economy.
Here are some excerpts from his interview
If the Democrats implemented protectionist policies it would be “a real setback for globalisation”
An increase in protectionism in the US as suggested by [...]
Reference: Rupert Murdoch owns FOX News a.k.a “Fake News” a.k.a “Fix News.”
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11, 1931), usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp). Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations
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Dos titanes de los medios, Rupert Murdoch y Tom Glocer, presidente de Thompson [...]
Some people are getting excited by this. Some, not so much. At the "All Things Digital" conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch -- Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics -- said this about Barack Obama: "He is a rock star. I love what he is saying about education. I think he will win and I am anxious to meet him (and destroy
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Who wants to be associated with losers? Bill O Reilly’s boss Rupert Murdoch is feeling the Obama wave and even is taking credit for his dead in the water newspaper The Post...
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Here is another interesting video. The description of the video:Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
Tribune Company is close to an agreement to sell Newsday to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for about $580 million. Murdoch will now control 3 of the major newspapers in New York, as he owns the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.Here is another reason to stop reading newspapers and find your news on the web. How long before Newsday keeps confusing Barack Obama with Osama bin Laden?
Did a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war? This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old civil lawsuit that is finally being tried this month in California but which has, oddly, received little notice from U.S. media. The case involves a colorful cast of characters that includes former intelligence agents, Canadian TV pirates, Bulgarian and German hackers, stolen e-mails and the mysterious suicide of a Berlin hacker who had been courted by the Murdoch company not long before his death. On the hot spot is NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm that makes smartcards for pay-TV systems like DirecTV. The company is a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. The charges s
Homes of the famous and very wealthy are rarely seen by the public. Rupert Murdoch, head of Newscorp and one of the world’s wealthiest men, is no exception, but renovations to his Manhattan apartment have allowed a brief glimpse into his grand plans. According to a recent article in the New York Times, Murdoch’s triplex apartment on 834 Fifth Avenue is undergoing major renovations, and the work that is being undertaken is so big and expansive that it can actually be seen from the street.
Thanks to Progression of Faith for a link to this documentary about Fox News. It is something important to see for your Friday night movie. Here is the trailer. Scroll down and click 'watch film now'.It is no surprise that Fox is a propaganda tool for the Republican party. What I found disturbing is that other news sources will copy Fox on occasion (such as the irresponsible announcement that GW Bush won the 2000 election when it was clearly too close to call).The documentary features interviews with former Fox employees who were told what to report and how to report it. It is an eye-opener.The problem is not that Fox News has opinions. The problem is that it is all opinion, there is no line between news and commentary. Its genius is that it calls itself "Fair and Balanced."At the end of the film is a call for Americans, regardless of political affiliation, to get involved and speak out against irresponsible journalistic practices. My bank, First Tennessee, the tall bu
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In what should be viewed with interest, as well as delight, by bloggers and main stream media corporations, Rupert Murdoch has announced plans to drop subscription fees for the Wall Street Journal online service according to www.nytimes.com. According to Associated Press sources Murdoch is simply “. . . trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue.” Congratulations are in order as another very large media entity is transitioning from traditional channels to the new and growing online delivery system.
1. Do you get what is happening in the American media landscape Mr. & Mrs. Realtor?
2. Do you understand that print media giants like Murdoch understand the breathe and reach of their online businesses?
3. Do you see that citizen journalists aka bloggers just like yourself can and will provide the inertia driving marketing and media to online channels and away from traditional formats in the near future?
4. Do you understand the effe
The three-day conference, which ends on Friday, focuses on the issues of social networking and creating new ways to communicate using the technologies and sources that internet provides. Rupert Murdoch, an Australian American global media executive and the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York, announces that his expectations about social networking were exceeded by the results they faced today. According to JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer’s article, Murdoch announces that:“We hoped it would do very well, but we never imagined it would do this well.”The prognoses are so much optimistic that DeWolfe and the co-founder Tom Anderson agree to have contacts with the company for 2 more years.According to the statistics the number of users of MySpace, after adding it to the ownership of Rupert Murdoch, has increased, and doubled from 90 million to 188 million.“This week, MySpace made a series of announcements signaling th
I've never really known just what rock Bill O'Reilly crawled out from under. All of a sudden here was this celebrity Fox News wingnut propagandist, seemingly materialized out of some old coke-euphoria dream of G. W. Bush. I had never even known the guy existed before. Which leads me to suspect that, much like Jonah Goldberg, this odd form of human life is manufactured, promoted and elevated by the corporate media empires that find their personalities so useful. There are actually many reasons why O'Reilly fills me with gleeful homicidal fantasies, but it can all be encapsulated by watching this snippet of his show where he treats a chapter president of Iraq Veterans Against The War with such callow and shallow disregard that I wanted to grab his scrawny rooster neck through the screen and pop his swollen head like a pimple. Of course, all of this is framed within the useful litany of lies that this boor espouses daily on behalf of the junta of thugs and criminals currently ruini
The latest company to fall under the control of Rupert Murdoch is Dow Jones & Co or more commonly know as Dow Jones.
Rupert Murdoch owns News Corporation, the massive media group which owns media companies such as Sky TV, The Sun Newspaper and the Myspace.com website.
Rupert Murdoch was experiencing some trouble with a controlling family, the Bancrofts, but they have now agreed to sell their controlling interest to Rupert Murdoch and so Rupert Murdoch will take control of Dow Jones.
The Bancroft family had owned 37% of Dow Jones, so it was essential for Rupert Murdoch to get their support and more importantly their stock.
What do you think about Rupert Murdoch taking over Dow Jones?
Does Rupert Murdoch have too much power in the media world?
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The Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co., "has accepted" News Corp.'s $5 billion offer to buy the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, an executive of a Dow Jones unit said on Tuesday. Read more: Bancroft family said to accept News Corp. offer for Dow JonesBalllllllllllllllllllllllllllerPhoto Cred and Source: International Herald Tribue
The Dow Jones company will be deciding Monday whether or not it will accept the unsolicited $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. This sale would transfer control of the Wall Street Journal, among other media assets, to a media empire most well-known for tabloid style journalism and sloppy reporting. It seems like a no-brainer for the company, but the high premium offered by Murdoch is making them take a second look. The bulk of this difficult decision rests with the Bancroft family, who collectively control 64% of the voting power within Dow Jones. It is time to let the Bancroft family know that we oppose the proposed sale.
Opposition is coming in from nearly all directions. Let’s pile on and tell Dow Jones and the Bancroft family where we stand. Please edit and send the letter below to Howard Hoffman in Corporate Communications. He can be reached via email at howard.hoffman@dowjones.com.
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And we are not talking with envy here; yes the man who has everything is now pledging to turn his empire into a green organization.
The pledge in reality is to see the giant media empire which has a foothold in virtually every country in the world is set to reduce its carbon footprint from 641,150 tons a year to being carbon neutral by the year 2010, of course owning all those newspapers does not help, all that paper!
But this has to be good for us all, and maybe this is the way forward for many organizations, as this will show everyone which companies are conscious of their impact on the world and the people who are living in it.
The organization plans to place subtle content into the publications regarding global warming, as a way to try and encourage others to follow suit, this is an entirely unseal step for someone like Rupert Murdoch, who has planes and cars at his beckon call.
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YouTube Video: (YouTube Descripton: Rupert Murdoch addressing the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in New York 8 February 2007.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJCXkuUAtYAlex
This is absolutely disgusting to throw all over myspace. Why can't we at least be blessed with a nation of hypochondriacs into herbal medicine?
I'm sorry, I believe that there are strange ailments and mental imbalances out there but I refuse to believe they are as widespread as we make them out to be in the United States and Canada (I can't really speak for anywhere else as I don't follow
Have you heard the latest to jump on the global warming bandwagon? No, it's not a singer or an actor or even a politician. It's none other than Rupert Murdoch, one of the faces of the "mainstream media" the blogosphere loves to complain about. Murdoch announced at Bill Clinton's Global Climate Initiative that News Corp. would become carbon neutral in an effort to curb global warming. Why the change of heart? Well, according to this article, it may have to do with his son James:
Signs suggest Murdoch's son James, presumable heir apparent since his brother Lachlan's resignation from News Corp. last year, may be influencing his father on this issue. This March, as CEO, of British satellite operator BSkyB, James spearheaded a carbon neutral policy for the company, setting a target to reduce corporate carbon dioxide emissions by 10% below 2002/2003 levels by 2010.
