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Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch
Rebekah In Wonderland
From Saturday’s New York Times: Caption: “Rebekah Brooks, a former executive under Rupert Murdoch, after testifying on Friday.” Through the looking glass, it goes without saying. Tip o’ the pixel to the Missus.
Why The Wall Street Journal Is Still A Great Newspaper (Buddy Holly’s Glasses Edition)
Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Shmurdoch. Despite all the handwringing when the Prints of Darkness added the Wall Street Journal to his newspaper empire four years ago, the paper has not gone to hell in a handbasket. Some even say it’s better. … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Hed, Buddy Holly, J. Davis Armistead, Lubbock, Prints of Darkness, Rupert Murdoch, Sgt. Bilko, Wall Street Journal
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Olbermann & Rich: Rupert Payboch
The Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider has been swamped with compare-and-contrast exercises lately (see here and here and here). Here’s another one: Keith Olbermann (in The Guardian) and Frank Rich (in New York) whacking their former employer Rupert Murdoch. … Continue reading
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Tagged Current TV, Fox Sports, Frank Rich, Keith Olbermann, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York, New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian
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All The News Of The World That Fits, We Print (NY Post Edition)
The New York Times continues to frolic in the News Corp(se) meltdown, staying on the story like Brown on Williamson. From Saturday’s edition: 2007 Letter Clearing a Tabloid Comes Under Scrutiny When the News of the World phone hacking rumpus … Continue reading
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Tagged Col Allan, New York Post, New York Times, News Corp(se), News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Scotland Yard
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MoveOn.Org Moves On Rupert Murdoch
George Soros sock puppet MoveOn.org has just launched an air assault on Rupert Murdoch over the News of the World rumpus. Via Politico’s On Media blog: Sensing political opportunity in the polling that shows most Americans support a wider investigation of … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11 victims, George Soros sock puppet, MoveOn.org, News of the World, On Media, Politico, Rupert Murdoch
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NYT Columnist Joe Nocera’s Media Culpa
In his Saturday op-ed column, New York Times chinstroker Joe Nocera punched into the News Corp(se) beatdown: The Journal Becomes Fox-ified It’s official. The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified. It took Rupert Murdoch only three and a half years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Murray, Joe Nocera, Les Hinton, media culpa, New York Times, News Corp(se), News of the World, Rupert Murdoch
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Noise Of The World: Prime Minister’s Questions
One of the most excellent sidebars to the Rupert-Murdoch-Goes-Chernobyl saga has been the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions donnybrook in the British House of Commons, which C-Span has blessedly broadcast lo these many years. Especially lively – yesterday’s proceedings: PM David … Continue reading
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même Murdoch
Lede of an editorial in the Daily Telegraph of London: In the parliamentary debate on the new Broadcasting Bill, not enough attention is being given to a major issue of principle. We refer to the excessive concentration of ownership control … Continue reading
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Tagged British Sky Broadcasting, BSkyB, Daily Telegraph, London, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Sky Television
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All The ‘News Of The World’ That’s Fit To Print
The New York Times is having a field day with the Fall of the House (Organ) of Murdoch – aka the News of the World, kissin’ cousin of Times crosstown rival Wall Street Journal. Friday’s Times had five – count ’em, … Continue reading
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