Archive for the 'Rupert Murdoch' Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
*
*
Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters
“Summary: During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe “attack dogs,” Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered — the journalists’ teeth […]
Posted in Television, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Keith Olbermann, Fox Channel |
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
April 03, 2008
WSJ may endorse in ‘08; first time since Hoover!
When Rupert Murdoch spoke yesterday at Georgetown, he indicated that a long-standing Wall Street Journal tradition could be changed in 2008: The paper might endorse a presidential candidate.
The Journal has refrained from endorsing a presidential candidate for more than seven decades.
In a July 2007 editorial […]
Posted in Newspapers, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch, 2008 Presidential Campaign |
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
November 25, 2007, 8:42 am
In Iowa, Clinton Is Pressed on Murdoch
By Patrick Healy
FORT DODGE, Iowa – The curious relationship between Hillary Rodham Clinton, presidential candidate, and Rupert Murdoch, media baron, flashed briefly before the eyes of Iowans on Saturday night during a Clinton campaign event.
A woman in the audience rose to ask Mrs. Clinton […]
Posted in Iowa, Rupert Murdoch, 2008 Presidential Campaign |
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
PARIS WAS PIG IN A POKEY
FREED JAILBRAT LIKED TO ‘GRUB’ OFF THE GUARDS
By MARIANNE GARVEY and DAVID K. LI
June 27, 2007 — Paris Hilton scurried home to Mommy and Daddy yesterday after spending three weeks in a jailhouse medical unit receiving special treatment and living the life of a snack-ravaging college student.
Sources said the celebrity […]
Posted in Newspapers, Rupert Murdoch, Celebrities, Sleaze |
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
CALLING THE SHOTS
In Murdoch’s Career,
A Hand on the News
His Aggressive Style
Can Blur Boundaries;
‘Buck Stops With Me’
*
How are you fixed for Hades?
*
By STEVE STECKLOW and AARON O. PATRICK in London, MARTIN PEERS in Sydney, Australia, and ANDREW HIGGINS in New York
As Rupert Murdoch advances in his bid to buy The Wall Street Journal and its […]
Posted in News Media, Television, Newspapers, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch, Publishing, Radio |
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Bancroft family to meet with Murdoch
Sat Jun 2, 2007 10:46AM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Representatives of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, plan to meet with News Corp. (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research chief Rupert Murdoch on Monday to discuss his $5 billion bid for the company, The […]
Posted in New York, Newspapers, Wall Street, Labor, Rupert Murdoch |
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
John Gibson follows the lead of Dick the Veep.
If caught in a lie, keep lying!
*
I am trying to recall how Gibson had made a name for himself.
That’s it, he had started a Madras School in 1964.
*
“Fox’s Gibson: CNN Reporter Who Debunked Obama Smear Probably Went To The Same Madrassa
Last week, Fox News highlighted a […]
Posted in Rupert Murdoch, Barack Obama, Fox Channel |
Monday, December 18th, 2006
“Judith Regan’s Attorney Vows ‘War’”
This is part of a headline on the Wall Street Journal online edition. Regan vs. Murdoch. I don’t know about you, but choosing sides will be very tough.
Thanks to Huffington Post for heads up on the story found here.
Posted in Baseball, Books, Rupert Murdoch, O.J. Simpson, Judith Regan, Publishing |
Monday, December 18th, 2006
This is reminiscent of the CASABLANCA scene in which Claude Rains declares his shock at the gambling at Rick’s Bar, then graciously pockets his winnings from a waiter.
‘Offensive’ phone call by publisher preceded her firing
*
Photo: Stuart Ramson/AP
*
‘Comments by Judith Regan, already in hot water over Simpson and Mantle deals, to a lawyer at HarperCollins were […]
Posted in News Media, Society, Television, Baseball, Books, Rupert Murdoch, O.J. Simpson, Judith Regan, Publishing |
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
O.J. sewer leads right to Murdoch
Tim Rutten:
Regarding Media
The Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2006
AMERICA’S popular culture lost its sense of shame so long ago that it’s a little hard to recall precisely what that emotion felt like.
Every once in a while, though, a small shiver of compunction runs through our collective nervous system, like phantom pain […]
Posted in News Media, Television, Books, Rupert Murdoch, O.J. Simpson |
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Clinton gains unlikely support
BY GLENN THRUSH
NEWSDAY
WASHINGTON BUREAU
May 9, 2006
WASHINGTON — A founding father of the vast right-wing conspiracy is throwing a July fundraiser in New York for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s re-election campaign.
Rupert Murdoch, the devoutly conservative Australian-born founder of Fox News and owner of the New York Post […]
Posted in Business, Congress, New York, Hillary Clinton, 2006 Election, Democrats, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Schumer |
