Carried in the January 27th edition of the Wall Street Journal was an advertisement/open letter from four-hundred Rabbis organized by a socialist Jewish organization called Jewish Funds for Justice (JFJ), with strong ties to financier George Soros (the full ad
Very interesting piece in Vanity Fair about why the news media has turned on WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. The story tells us as a lot about Assange..and the news media. Part of the falling out has to do with the
Part I: Part II: What was really scary was when Larry Summers said [that] when we look back [from] the end of this century, people are not going to talk about this recession. Their going to talk about the rise
Why doesn’t George Soros just go himself? Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog that spends most of its time attacking Fox News, won a charity auction lunch with Rupert Murdoch for $86,000. “I look forward to this opportunity to have
The left loves to go wild claiming that Rupert Murdoch, a famous conservative, owns a few news outlets. The left is also aghast that well known righty Roger Ailes guides Fox News. Ailes’s ideology makes of his network a compromised
The Chairman of News Corp. testified before a House Committee on Immigration.
According to some estimates, Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally drew almost 300,000 people to Washington D.C. on August 28. Had it been a rally led by Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, the mainstream media would have used precision camera angles
Interesting article in the New York Times today about how the radical media activist group Free Press is now working with an organization called The Harmony Institute toward the goal of “Adding Punch to Influence Public Opinion.” The way they
Columbia University is the place where leftists give leftist journalists Pulitzer Prizes and then tell each other how prestigious leftist journalism is because–wow!–look at all the Pulitzers they’ve won. This week, the president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, wrote a specious
My last column offered hypotheses on why America feels that the entertainment industry is having a negative effect on the way things are going in the country these days. I theorized that many Americans feel that the entertainment industry does
The Wall Street Journal must be doing something right, even if it doesn’t have the respect of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The latest numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show the Journal with a healthy gain of 3.37 percent
We’ve already seen in the past how symbiotic the relationship is between MSNBC (whose ratings are cratering among adults 25-54) and Media Matters. Witness the now infamous “interview” conducted by suspended MSNBC employee David Shuster and Andrew Breitbart. His question
No one is more self-dramatizing on cable news than male hysteric, unsolicited janitor of Cooperstown, and Countdown host Keith Olbermann, who includes more special effects during his Castro-length “Special Comment” segments than Mikhail Kalatozov did in I Am Cuba (one
Rupert Murdoch is the CEO and Chairman of News Corporation, which owns in whole or in part, an unbelievable amount of assets in the film, television, news and publishing world. Murdoch is a Mogul and then some. His personal politics
Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Under the aegis of Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century-Fox, a zillion dollar corporation with over a billion in annual box office, James Cameron makes a movie, Avatar, about an average, avaricious, American corporation
Sky News: As well as Google, [News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch] criticised other sites like Microsoft and Ask.com for also taking a free ride on its content – “the people who just simply pick up everything and run with it
[youtube XyJeIyb1m40 nolink] In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, George W. Bush, CNN poll, Unemployment, William Jefferson, Lost Lottery Tickets, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Michelle Obama, Vanity Fair Magazine, AIDS, and Brad Garrett.
Robert Greenwald, maker of the anti-Fox News documentary “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism,” claims that Fox News is trying to frighten it’s “disproportionately elderly” viewers into thinking that “progressive bloggers…are extremists, hatemongerers (sic), liars, and genocidal maniacs.”
Former Lyndon Johnson Press Spokesman Bill Moyers attacks Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Channel in PBS commentary.
[dailymotion qCh4YEeFEYGLGgNLb nolink] Rupert Murdoch moved closer to his dream of owning Dow Jones & Co. Tuesday as an initial agreement was reached on measures to ensure the editorial independence of The Wall Street Journal.
