The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama tonight walked into the hostile territory of the rightwing network, Fox News, and said that the troops surge in Iraq was working "beyond our wildest dreams" in an appearance meant to reassure conservatives about his readiness to be commander-in-chief
The First Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The cat's out of the bag for Rupert Murdoch (pictured). Or rather the Grecian 2000’s out of the bottle. In the new semi-authorised biography of the Australian media mogul by…
The Exile (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rupert Murdoch is regarded as the devil incarnate by many on the left in Britain, but how accurate is that portrayal? Your friendly old Exile reckons that Murdoch is actually a giant with feet of clay and that the Labour government that came into office in 1997 could have slapped him down. Alas, they were led by Tony Blair, a public school pretty boy, who was as afraid of Murdoch as he was of anyone...
Cranmer (Free subscription) | yesterday
It really is quite simple. His ‘ genetic theory ’ dawned on him one day, and he declared that ‘the basic problem of the Muslim people was that they married their cousins’. There is no doubt that marriages between first cousins are permitted in Islam. In surat an-Nisa' (4:22-24), Allah talks of the women who are forbidden to marry, and then he declares: ‘Lawful to you are all beyond those mentioned,...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Wolff's forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News , reveals that the News Corp boss believes that Muslims are genetically inferior because they marry cousins.
Debbie Schlussel (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Debbie Schlussel Tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, ABC, CBS, NBC, and several cable networks will air " Stand Up to Cancer ," a one hour special to raise cancer awareness and money for cancer research. But one network is missing: FOX, the network owned by NewsCorp, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and--by at least 5.46% (and reportedly much more) Saudi billionaire and jihadist Prince Al-Waleed Bin...
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
What's next? The Wall Street Times?
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Vanity Fair just ran a long, extremely boring profile of Rupert Murdoch. But there is one good part : [Murdoch]’s not quite a liberal. He remains a militant free-marketeer and is still pro-war (grudgingly, he’s retreated a bit). And there was the moment, one afternoon, when over a glass of his favorite coconut water (meant to increase electrolytes) he was propounding the genetic theory that the basic...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
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ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
This morning I attended the introduction of The Wall Street Journal’s highly anticipated lifestyle magazine, WSJ. At a time when most newspaper companies continue to dial back investment in their ink-on-paper products because of the Web, the Journal is forging ahead with print (backed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which officially acquired Dow Jones, publisher of the [...]
Bulgaria News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
German media group RTL is considering a 1.1 billion acquisition of Bulgaria's main private TV channel bTV, which is part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., finanznachrichten.de website reported Friday.
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Michael Wolff has been interviewing Rupert Murdoch for the last nine months. This is fascinating: Obama...was snubbing Murdoch...It wasn’t until early in the summer that Obama relented and a secret courtesy meeting was arranged. The meeting began with Murdoch sitting...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vanity Fair released its annual ranking of the world’s most powerful people this week and our favorite executive trio was tied for third, just under Vladimir Putin and Rupert Murdoch. read more
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
According to this story from Michael Wolff, Barack Obama had a Johnny Sack-style sit down with News Corp's Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, wherein they brokered some sort of truce. If my occasional viewing of Fox News is any indication, I'm not sure exactly what was required on Fox's end; they are, after all, as hostile to Obama now as anytime in the recent past. But I suspect that, whatever the details...
News Dissector Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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