No, let's. You might be thinking: How can you possibly say that? But wait. It's important to get our prejudices out of the way first. We may well have views about Murdoch and his children, about what they stand for and the way they do business; but these aren't important when considering whether it's right that he should get everything he wants from our elected (and probably soon-to-be elected) representatives....
To get everyone up to speed, Rupert Murdoch is the News Corporation CEO and owner of such fine news media outlets as Fox News, the Sun, and the Times. (By the way, the Internet needs a universally agreed upon “sarcasm” formatting.) In recent weeks, Murdoch has begun to lay out plans to remove much of [...]
Public figures of all kinds are aflutter after Oprah Winfrey's dramatic announcement that she's switching to cable. CNN did the thing where someone hands an urgent piece of paper to the anchor, the Daily Beast seems to have created a special "Life After Oprah" section, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is already blaming the media. (Felix Gillette has the more sober view.) Less dramatically,...
Texas Republicans are truly an entirely separate category of stupid. “For somebody like me who has put together the logistics of a court trial, you’ve got weak links all along the way from the jailers, the bailiffs, the clerks, the jurors, the judge, everybody in the courtroom, their families…You’ve got subways, tunnels, bridges all subject to [...]
Our favorite irascible media tyrant is in the news once again, and once again it’s time for me to bring you a story of doing one thing while wishing for another. In a November 6th interview, Sky News Australia’s David Speers spent about 35 minutes with the CEO of NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch; the conversation covering topics as diverse as software piracy, world economics, the role of Fox News...
Broadcasting and entertainment is the future for News Corporation with newspapers playing a much smaller role according to James Murdoch the company's head of Europe and Asia.
Earlier this month, News Corp. president Rupert Murdoch said that President Obama made “a very racist comment” when Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley. Murdoch also said Fox News host Glenn Beck “was right” to say Obama is a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred [...]
Earlier this week we designated Hara as one of our 10 green startups to watch, and now the company has hit it big with a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The environmental and energy management software startup was chosen by the $30 billion media company to assist in its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2010. Hara's software tracks use of resources like electricity, gas, chemicals, and...
Image via Writing Company It's hared to get a read on Fox's parent company, News Corp., to say the least. Owned by the infamous Rupert Murdoch, it oversees the largest contingent of climate change-denying publications in existence. But one day, Murdoch himself took an interest in fighting climate change , and announced a plan to make his company carbon neutral by 2010 . Then, he went to bat to defend...
My chin fell to the floor this morning as I read a BBC article quoting Twitter co-CEO Biz Stone advising Rupert Murdoch to be more open. This got me to think about where Twitter is and where they're going and how similar it is to where Murdoch's newspapers are. In a newspaper, reporters get the prime space with the big headlines, and the readers are placed in a corner, Letters to the Editor. Or represented...
Last week we learned that Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, agreed with Glenn Beck's assertion that the President was a "racist", because, in Murdoch's words , Obama made a "very racist comment." Of course, no one knows what "very racist comment" Murdoch was talking about. Fox News was then forced to clean up the boss's mess issuing...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The feud between Governor Paterson and Rupert Murdoch has exploded into all-out warfare — of the mind . At The Wall Street Journal 's CEO Council earlier this week, Murdoch took a question on bringing about civil discourse and, ironically, answered it by blaming the incompetence of New York's government on Governor Paterson's blindness and inability to read Braille. "He doesn't really know...
Rupert Murdoch has apologized for blaming the polarization of our political debate on the fact that New York Gov. David Paterson is "blind, and can't read braille, and doesn't know what's going on."...
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