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News of the World Shutting Down Amid Hacking Sandal

LONDON (AP) – News International announced Thursday it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of Britain’s phone hacking scandal. James Murdoch, who heads European operations for the paper’s parent company, said the

Fidel Castro 'Horrified' By Bin Laden Death

“The assassination of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something abhorrent. Assassinating him and sending him to the depths of the sea shows fear and insecurity, (and) turns him into a much more dangerous figure.”

Why Do Journalists Hate Julian Assange?

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

Columbia University vs. The Murdoch Effect

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

Does Hollywood Ideology Affect Hollywood Revenue?

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

'Avatar': Film Art as Cultural Suicide

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

'NewsBusted' 8/14/09 — Fake News from the Right

[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.

Anti-Fox News Filmmaker Blasts Network for Being Anti-Blogger

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.”

News Corp.-Dow Jones Deal Examined

[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.