Rupert Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch seizing control
By TruePublica: It appears that the News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his top executives in the UK and US met Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other high-level Government politicians seven times between them in seven weeks last summer. Worse, it has since emerged that News Corp editors and execs from the UK and America… Continue reading
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Pie in the Sky?
This is huge. You – along with thousands of other people – have helped throw a major spanner into Rupert Murdoch’s plans to take full control of Sky. Karen Bradley, the Culture Secretary, just announced an investigation into the takeover. Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 22-23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info Hacking In Brief: 23/07/2011 The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight News Corp executive ‘leaked Cable story’ Ian Burrell Kroll, the global corporate investigations company, has named a top News Corp executive as the strong suspect in ‘orchestrating’ the leak of a tape which led to the downfall 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 invasion of Australia – official at last By John Pilger
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words ‘European arrival’ in the official record with ‘invasion’. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. Continue reading
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Sky Decision Imminent
Has Murdoch has built his empire in this country in spite of the criminal surveillance of MPs by his journalists, or because of it? Continue reading
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Stop Murdoch — Round Two
Murdoch’s friends in government have given him approval to buy out our media. Avaaz is launching an all out campaign to stop the Murdoch deal during the 10 day consultation period, with a national opinion poll, hard hitting ads and legal challenges. Small donations from 5,000 of us will make it happen: Continue reading
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What the Sky Decision Tells Us About Media Reform By Dan Hind
The purchase by Murdoch of the shares in Sky currently owned by Pearson and others won’t mean that a viable media system will become the plaything of unaccountable interests. The media system won’t suddenly turn into a conduit for commercial propaganda, an instrument of state manipulation. It won’t become a fatally unreliable source of information… Continue reading
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Stop Rupert Murdoch – incredible response!
In 24 hours, nearly half our commercial media could be owned by Rupert Murdoch. Continue reading
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Stop Rupert Murdoch – incredible response!
In 24 hours, nearly half our commercial media could be owned by Rupert Murdoch. Continue reading
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Israel’s Great Loyalty Oath Crusade By Charles Glass
Captain Black from Catch-22 is back, but this time he’s Israel’s Foreign Affairs Minister. Although Avigdor Lieberman only rose to the rank of corporal in the Israeli Defense Forces, he can stand in for Captain Black any day. His campaign to force immigrants to Israel who happen not to be Jewish to pledge full support… Continue reading
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Guardian editor hits back at paywalls
Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp lecture at London College of Communication today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would remove the industry from a digital revolution which is allowing news organisations to engage with their readers more than ever before. Continue reading
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Rupert Murdoch: Genius or dummy and should we care? By William Bowles
The bulk of News Corp’s content starts life in print, radio and video, some of which makes it online either edited or ‘massaged’ in some way. This is called ‘refreezing’ the product, so essentially the same content can be used over and over again. This is what ‘convergence’ is really all about from the business… Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: “Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran” by F. William Engdahl
The world-renowned Times newspaper of London published a report in its July 5th edition titled, ‘Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran.’ The story, were it true, would imply a dramatic change in Saudi foreign and military policy whose consequences potentially could lead to a World War III. A more serious investigation reveals that… Continue reading
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The Deep Politics of Hollywood In the Parents’ Best Interests By Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham
Each of the dominant Hollywood studios (“the majors”) is now a subsidiary of a much larger corporation, and therefore is not so much a separate or independent business, but rather just one of a great many sources of revenue in its parent company’s wider financial empire. Continue reading
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David McKnight: Rupert Murdoch has been one of the world’s most effective supporters of conservative ideas
Most businessmen avoid discussing politics publicly and media owners all the more so, since their businesses are the vehicles for the national conversation about politics. Not so Rupert. Murdoch and his media outlets have been at the forefront of the philosophical and political revolution constituted by free-market thinking. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 