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CNBC anchor Shepard Smith, also a former Fox News personality, accused some of his former Fox News colleagues of spreading “disinformation” in an interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour.

LONDON (AP) — Environmental activists have blockaded two British printing plants, disrupting the distribution of several national newspapers on Saturday.

In a new documentary on his life, work, and struggles, legendary political and media warrior Roger Ailes gets the chance to respond to his critics in his own voice.

British actor Hugh Grant slammed Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch as a “danger to liberal democracy” who made his life extremely difficult after Grant was arrested in Hollywood while receiving oral sex from a prostitute.

Attorney General William Barr and media mogul Rupert Murdoch met privately in New York City on Wednesday evening as President Trump ratchets up attacks on the Fox News Channel, according to the New York Times.

Meghan Markle has been crowned Britain’s top social climber by society bible Tatler which observed she had reached “the pinnacle of the greasy pole” in the space of barely 12 months.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that First Lady Melania Trump should “take the Trump name off.” Maher said, “Melania Trump must do what dozens of buildings around the world have done and take the

Facebook continues to establish itself as the great referee of the media, picking winners and losers, and propping up discredited establishment media sources that would otherwise naturally fade into obscurity, victims of their own conspiracy-mongering hysteria.

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is joining Fox Corp.’s board of directors, the media giant announced Tuesday morning.

Ann Coulter lamented Republican weakness in the face of accusations of “racism” from Democrats and leftists in a Breitbart News interview.

Ann Coulter revealed details of how she was banned — and subsequently unbanned — from Fox News Channel in an interview with Breitbart News.

Over 100 European journalists signed an open letter accusing Big Tech companies, like Google and Facebook, of stealing their news, and supporting a European reform which would make Silicon Valley pay for it.

Facebook’s head of global news partnerships, Campbell Brown told Australian media executives that Mark Zuckerberg “doesn’t care about publishers,” according to a report in Murdoch-owned newspaper the Australian.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that the United States is going to be like Iraq under Saddam Hussein where a minority holds all the power “because of the axis of evil of Donald Trump,

Comcast announced Thursday it is pulling out of the bidding war with Walt Disney Co. for film and television operations of 21st Century Fox.

“The pervasiveness of the largest digital platforms makes Standard Oil look like a corner gas station” said the CEO.

Actress Charlize Theron will portray former Fox News and current NBC host Megyn Kelly in an upcoming film about the sexual harassment controversy surrounding Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.

Establishment elites don’t want a level playing field on social media.

21st Century Fox reported lower third-quarter earnings due, the company said, to a lack of Super Bowl revenue.

LONDON (AP) — U.S. media giant Comcast offered Wednesday to buy British broadcaster Sky Plc for 22 billion pounds ($30 billion), topping a controversial bid from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox.

Trump holds Murdoch in high esteem, frequently calling him for advice despite his criticism of the president on issues like illegal immigration. 

The European Commission raided the London offices of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox as part of an investigation into a possible “cartel” involving sports broadcasting rights.

Investigators from the European Union Commission have raided the offices of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox UK offices and have seized computers and other documents.

Radical feminist outfit Code Pink protested Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who’s in Hollywood to meet with movie studio bosses to sell his plan to build a new entertainment industry in the Kingdom.

LONDON (AP) — 21st Century Fox has offered to insulate Sky’s news operations from the influence of Rupert Murdoch and his family to win approval of its bid to take over the London-based pay TV company.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Twenty-First Century Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky is “not in the public interest” and could block the acquisition.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently stated his belief that Facebook should pay publishers on their platform, “similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” while at the same time attacking both Facebook and Google for the rise of “scurrilous news sources.”

U.S. counterintelligence officials cautioned Jared Kushner that Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch could be using her friendship with him and wife Ivanka Trump to further Chinese government interests.

Author Michael Wolff claims in his new White House tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that nearly every member of President Donald Trump’s senior staff accused him of acting ‘like a child.’

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch called President Donald Trump a “fucking moron,” according to author Michael Wolff’s much-hyped White House tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

The just-announced mega-merger of Disney and most of Fox is only about one thing: the cold, hard fact that streaming television is not only the future of entertainment; it is the only future of entertainment.

Disney’s expected takeover of large parts of the Fox media empire could make Fox’s prospective purchase of Sky News in the UK more likely, experts have claimed.

The pro-cheap, foreign labor organization New American Economy, funded by billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg, is behind the year-end push on Capitol Hill to give amnesty to potentially 3.5 million illegal aliens in the United States.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is helping to lead the effort in Congress to lobby the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue de facto amnesty known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals.

Shares in media-entertainment giant 21st Century Fox surged to seven-month highs Friday after news it has been holding talks with at least three potential buyers for some of its television and film operations.

Sky has warned it could shut down Sky News if questions over the Murdoch family’s influence on Britain’s media landscape impede its purchase by 21st Century Fox.