This morning on Soledad O’Brien’s unwatchable CNN morning show, a couple of left-wing media critics were brought on to discuss the the New York Post‘s decision to make this morning’s cover a gruesome photo of Ki Suk Han moments before he died
Rupert Murdoch put the future of his newspaper and publishing empire in the hands of a fellow Australian Monday as he set in motion the split of the media-entertainment conglomerate. Murdoch also announced the shutdown of the pioneering iPad newspaper
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is going to take criticism from the mainstream media, which hates him and is no friend of Israel, for tweets he made regarding the Israel-Gaza war. Murdoch, a staunch supporter of Israel, first tweeted: Why Is
James Murdoch, son of famed media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is poised to take over News Corp’s U.S. Television holdings just as a new report in Britain criticizes his stewardship of holdings in the UK. It has been reported that James
Ever wonder why the vast majority of politically charged entertainment content favors left of center arguments? Wonder no more. Between Jan. 1, 2011, and July 20, 2012, employees at the seven major media conglomerates — Comcast, Disney, News Corp., Time
On a recent list compiled to show who were the non-Jews most positively influencing the Jewish future, Mitt Romney stood at the top of the list. The reasons Romney was first were his very vocal support of Israel, his harshness
The news industry takes another hit this week as the Rupert Murdoch-owned digital newspaper, The Daily, announces that 29 percent of its workforce, 50 employees, will be laid off. News Corp launched the iPad-only publication (via iTunes) to great fanfare
British prosecutors on Tuesday charged the prime minister’s former spokesman Andy Coulson and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks with phone-hacking. The Crown Prosecution Service said it was charging a total of eight people in relation to the scandal at
(AP) UK hacking scandal spreads, 100-plus new claimsBy RAPHAEL SATTERAssociated PressLONDONBritish police are investigating new tabloids in the country’s growing phone hacking scandal, including the Trinity Mirror PLC newspaper group as well as the U.K.’s Express Newspapers, a senior Scotland
(AP) Murdoch resigns from News Corp. subsidiary boardsLONDONMedia mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. Murdoch stepped down this past week
News Corp watchers have been talking about a possible split of Rupert Murdoch’s massive entertainment and publishing empire for some time, and it looks like they are finally on the right side of the guesswork, as the News Corp board
(AP) UK’s Cameron to face media ethics inquiryBy DAVID STRINGERAssociated PressLONDONBritish media ethics inquiry said Friday that Prime Minister David Cameron will give evidence next week, amid questions over his ties to a number of suspects in the country’s tabloid
The rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks is to get the film treatment, according to reports from Cannes Friday, just days after the former Rupert Murdoch aide was charged in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. The story of the former chief executive
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Euro zone unemployment hits record high at 10.9% U.S. presidential campaign spurs Israel’s attack on Iran Scapegoat du jour: Rupert Murdoch Human Rights Watch accuses Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad of war crimes Euro zone
By DAVID STRINGERAssociated PressLONDON News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch must take responsibility for serious failings that caused Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, lawmakers said Tuesday in a scathing report, as a narrow majority also insisted the tycoon was unfit to
Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged Sunday that he wooed Rupert Murdoch as he attempted to win power in Britain, but insisted he never struck a tit-for-tat deal to support the media mogul’s business dealings in return for favorable coverage. Ties
Reuters: “Appearing at a judicial inquiry into press ethics, media mogul Rupert Murdoch denies suggestions that he uses his media empire to play puppet master in UK politics.”
Back on April 6th, notorious anti-Israel Foreign Policy senior fellow MJ Rosenberg left Media Matters for America because his “Israel firster” language was provoking heat from all ends of the political spectrum. Let’s be clear, though. He didn’t leave because Media
Great Britain’s Mark Lewis, the lawyer who is spearheading the investigation into the phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News Of the World, is trying to bring the case across the sea to New York. He intends to file lawsuits against
Alec Baldwin, star of a sitcom that has never ranked above 69 in the ratings and last year ranked 106, can’t stop freaking out on Twitter: —- Apparently, Baldwin is upset because a couple of reporters from the Daily News crashed
Reuters: Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper prides itself on an aggressive reporting style that has delivered decades of sensational scoops and made it Britain’s best-selling newspaper. But now the hunter has become the hunted. The cheeky “red top” tabloid has been
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder is not just politicized and biased – it’s a hit squad for Obama’s enemies. Remember when President Obama’s Department of Justice shut down investigation of
Reuters: U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources
It’s always the little things that make me miss George W. Bush. Yes, his public profligacy gave us Obama, which in turn gave us the Tea Party. New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s book, The Obamas, makes me love him
Current continues its swirl at the bottom of the toilet: Al Gore‘s Current TV channel in the UK is facing closure after BSkyB – part owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation – axed it from its pay-TV lineup. Cue whining:
