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Michelle Malkin: ‘My Base Is Fed Up with Fox’ News Channel; Murdoch ‘Treacherous Bedfellow’

For the past two decades, Rupert Murdoch allowed Fox News chief Roger Ailes to occupy one of the most unique — and powerful — perches in American politics and media: running a right-wing political operation under the guise of a 24-hour news network. As long as the profits rolled in, Murdoch virtually never meddled in Ailes’s world — even when his own family protested. “He lets me run it, he doesn’t bother me much,” Ailesboasted of Murdoch as recently as April 2015. But that laissez-faire era seems to be over.

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The Sun To Tear Down Paywall To Boost Readership

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper the Sun is to take down its online paywall, after the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid failed to win enough readers in the latest troubled digital experiment for a traditional publisher. The scrapping of the online

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Ed Miliband Not that Weird Shock

Ed Miliband quite normal, shock. No, it’s not a story I want to read either. Like anyone even half way sane, I’m quite convinced that a government of which an unreconstructed Hampstead socialist like Miliband was leader would be an

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New York Times in Hot Pursuit of Rupert Murdoch for Telling the Cold Truth About Islam

Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul, not a politician, but he owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, so he is plenty familiar with politics—and he is no stranger to battles with The New York Times. And yet unlike most politicians, Murdoch has always had a reputation for candor. And Twitter, of course, makes candor even easier; we are all just a tweet away from letting loose what we really think.

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Prosecutors to Review 25 ‘Fake Sheikh’ Convictions

Twenty-five convictions secured through evidence given by British reporter Mazher Mahmood — nicknamed the Fake Sheikh — will be reviewed due to doubts over his reliability as a witness, prosecutors said Thursday. Infamous for often reporting undercover posing as a

Prosecutors to Review 25 ‘Fake Sheikh’ Convictions

Britain Wins 3 International Emmys

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain’s Stephen Dillane and the Netherlands’ Bianca Krijgsman won the top acting prizes Monday night at the 42nd International Emmy Awards in which the honors were spread among eight countries. The highlight of the awards gala

Britain Wins 3 International Emmys

George Clooney to Direct Rupert Murdoch Media Scandal Film

George Clooney has signed on to direct a new film that highlights the Rupert Murdoch media scandal, which involved the habitual voicemail hacking of politicians and other high-profile figures by one of the worlds largest media organizations–News Corp. The movie

George Clooney to Direct Rupert Murdoch Media Scandal Film

Why I Won't Be Renewing My Subscription to The Times

I was involved in a very minor spat on Twitter last week. On the day Forest and the Hands Off Our Packs campaign delivered 53,000 letters to Downing Street opposing plain packaging of tobacco, journalist Pat Long tweeted:  Corporate stooges

Why I Won't Be Renewing My Subscription to The Times