Media
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10 Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch By Robin Beste
What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country’s armed forces to war? Continue reading
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Former Fox News Producer Claims The Network's "Brain Room" Led To Hacking By Stephen C. Webster
A former producer with Fox News claimed in a lengthy essay gaining new traction this week that the conservative television station has a ‘Brain Room’ in its New York headquarters, which enables employees to view private telephone records with ease. Continue reading
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Former Fox News Producer Claims The Network’s “Brain Room” Led To Hacking By Stephen C. Webster
A former producer with Fox News claimed in a lengthy essay gaining new traction this week that the conservative television station has a ‘Brain Room’ in its New York headquarters, which enables employees to view private telephone records with ease. Continue reading
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What did PM tell Murdoch about the BSkyB takeover? By Andrew Grice and Oliver Wright
David Cameron admitted that he may have discussed the bid by News Corp for full control of BSkyB during his 27 meetings with Murdoch executives since last year’s election. Downing Street had previously insisted that the £8bn takeover was not mentioned. Continue reading
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual By John Pilger
Rupert Murdoch is a 21st century Lord Copper. The amusing gentility is missing; the absurdity of his power is the same. The Daily Beast wanted victories; it got them. The Sun wanted dead Argies; Gotcha! Of the bloodbath in Iraq, Murdoch said, ‘There is going to be collateral damage. And if you really want to… Continue reading
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Bets on for PM to be washed away by phone hack tsunami — RT
The London-based team investigating phone-hacking by journalists at News Corp has been expanded from 45 to 60 police officers and staff. The scandal now haunts not only the Murdochs, but also PM David Cameron, with chances of his resignation rising. Continue reading
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Bets on for PM to be washed away by phone hack tsunami — RT
The London-based team investigating phone-hacking by journalists at News Corp has been expanded from 45 to 60 police officers and staff. The scandal now haunts not only the Murdochs, but also PM David Cameron, with chances of his resignation rising. Continue reading
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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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