Media
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Video Rerun: Murdoch Shaped British politics for 40 Years
Leo Panitch : Murdoch used sex scandal journalism to attack left-wing of the Labor Party and later helped create Tony Blair Continue reading
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Phone-hacking scandal gets closer to Cameron — RT
British Prime Minister David Cameron has had to defend himself over his close connections to the embattled Rupert Murdoch media empire before MPs, as he answered tough questions during Wednesday’s session in the House of Commons. Continue reading
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Phone-hacking scandal gets closer to Cameron — RT
British Prime Minister David Cameron has had to defend himself over his close connections to the embattled Rupert Murdoch media empire before MPs, as he answered tough questions during Wednesday’s session in the House of Commons. Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 19-20 July 2011
20 July 2011 Updated: 21:05:34 — williambowles.info 20 July 2011 Murdoch Empire Sinking Beneath The Sands By George GallowaySince becoming prime minister just fifteen months ago, Cameron has had 26 meetings with Murdoch’s executives. Cameron’s wife was likely the only person to get more meetings with the PM than Murdoch’s executives. Continue reading
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Democracy Now! Daily News Digest: Murdoch’s Denials Are Tough to Believe
British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing questions from lawmakers today on his handling of the widening News International phone-hacking scandal implicating the British police and top government officials. Continue reading
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Coaching, Media and Public Discourse
For all those complaining that the Murdochs had been carefully coached in presentation before the Select Committee, I say this is much worse. You do have to watch to the end to understand what I mean: Continue reading
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The Aaronovitch Code By Dan Hind
I’d more or less put David Aaronovitch out of my mind recently, what with the paywall and everything. But he turned up on Newsnight last night as part of the programme’s efforts to erase memories of the previous night’s now-notorious ‘ask the public’ episode. Continue reading
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Murdoch the ‘Dirty Digger’ Newslinks 15-16 July 2011
16 July 2011 — williambowles.info 16 July 2011 Murdoch apology in press adverts BBC News Today at 05:13 Rupert Murdoch takes out national press adverts to apologise for the phone hacking by the News of the World, as two of his most senior aides resign. Continue reading
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How Has Murdoch Improved With Age? By Russ Baker
Here’s an old article that WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker wrote about Rupert Murdoch, the media titan whose News Corp is currently the focus of so much controversy. This ran in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1998. But it is useful for comparing the company’s (non-hacking) practices, then and now. Continue reading
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New York Times stands by Ethan Bronner’s Facebook fabrications By Ali Abunimah
The New York Times has told The Electronic Intifada it stands fully behind an article by its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner despite compelling evidence that the article contains fabrications, misleading statements, and gross exaggerations. Continue reading
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Murdoch’s News Corp Newslinks 14-15 July 2011
15 July 2011 — williambowles.info 15 July 2011 Murdoch outfoxed in UK as trouble brews across the pond Russiatoday.ru Today at 06:50 RT Rupert Murdoch’s disgraced media empire is now under FBI investigation over the possibility that the voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families were intercepted.” Continue reading
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THE SLIME UNWINDS; MURDOCH MEDIA UNDER ATTACK By Danny Schecter
Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for British broadcaster BSkyB on Wednesday in the face of cross-party hostility in parliament following allegations of widespread criminality at one of his tabloid newspapers. Continue reading
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Murdoch drops BSkyB bid as PM flounders in House By Roger Bagley
News Corporation announced abandonment of the bid just minutes after Mr Cameron’s sheepish Commons announcement of an inquiry into phone-hacking plus links between politicians, the media and the police. Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: Rupert Murdoch and Media Corruption By Margaret Kimberley
The bottomless cesspool that was Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World is gone, but the ruthless corporate politics of its master still hold sway in the U.S. and Britain. Murdoch is the great vampire of media corruption and consolidation on both sides of the Atlantic. But he is not a solitary villain. ‘Murdoch… Continue reading
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Murdoch’s empire expansion halts as British probe brings more arrests — RT
Britain wants Rupert Murdoch to testify before parliament over the wiretapping scandal. Earlier, the media mogul was pressured out of a deal with the UK’s largest satellite broadcaster. Continue reading
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Murdoch’s empire expansion halts as British probe brings more arrests — RT
Britain wants Rupert Murdoch to testify before parliament over the wiretapping scandal. Earlier, the media mogul was pressured out of a deal with the UK’s largest satellite broadcaster. Continue reading
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Murdoch’s News Corp Newslinks 13-14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Murdoch’s News Corp. – an empire built on ethically-dubious practicesRussiatoday.ru Today at 00:30 RT Rupert Murdoch’s push to expand in the British media has come to a halt. His embattled empire has announced the drop of its bid to take control of UK’s largest satellite broadcaster BSkyB, following News Corp’s…” Continue reading
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Why Context Matters: Journalists and Haiti By Gina Athena Ulysse
Earlier this week, the Ms. Blog interviewed journalist Mac McClelland regarding the much-discussed online article she wrote about dealing with PTSD after a reporting stint in Haiti. One of our Ms. bloggers wanted to weigh in with her thoughts about the controversial story. Continue reading
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Press under attack in Haiti By John Mario
A series of recent events in Haiti have highlighted continuing threats to press freedom in a country where democratic rights are routinely denied in the interests of US imperialism and the local ruling elite. Continue reading
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