News of the World
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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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Media Lens: Avalanche! Media Hyperbole On News Corp, The ‘Free’ Press And A ‘Berlin Wall Moment’
There’s no doubt that a body blow has been delivered to Rupert Murdoch’s mighty News Corporation empire. Leading politicians, who until very recently had been both obsequious and fearful, now want to put themselves at least a bargepole’s length away from the media mogul. 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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Video: UK parliament bids to scupper Murdoch media deal
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has endured a torrid day at the hands of members of the UK parliament Continue reading
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Video: Dan and Dan in "NOTW'
12 July 2011 Dan & Dan are back with a scathing, coruscating piece of satire that will leave Murdoch humiliated and frankly begging for mercy. Continue reading
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Video: Dan and Dan in “NOTW’
12 July 2011 Dan & Dan are back with a scathing, coruscating piece of satire that will leave Murdoch humiliated and frankly begging for mercy. Continue reading
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News Corp Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info Murdoch agrees to face MPs:The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at 17:43 Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have agreed to appear before MPs next week to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal, it was revealed tonigh” Continue reading
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The end of Murdoch media?
Yesterday Murdoch pulled a last minute manoeuvre to exclude his company’s outrageous hacking practices from the BSKyB deal review. Let’s call on the government to immediately rule that the Murdochs aren’t fit and proper to own half our commercial media. Tomorrow this will be debated in Parliament. Let’s beat the Murdoch mafia – sign the… Continue reading
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The Fourth Estate is bankrupt By William Bowles
How can such a press be considered free or independent in any real sense of the word? Controlled either by the state or three large corporations, the MSM plays an intrinsic role in maintaining the status quo and it does it quite openly. Until now that is… Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch's U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch’s U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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Disregard the Blairite undead
It is difficult to imagine either of Ed Miliband’s predecessors as Labour leader deciding to force a parliamentary vote to delay consideration of Rupert Murdoch’s swallowing up of BSkyB until criminal investigations into the News of the World are complete. Continue reading
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The Limits of Acceptable Controversy By Dan Hind
The British media in their current form can neither regulate themselves or report adequately on their own activities. These failures must be added to their demonstrable inability to describe the broad outlines of the economic system in the run-up to the crisis of 2007-8, and their failure to expose the government’s manipulations and deceits in… Continue reading
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