http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/murdoch/ en-us Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:08:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407078/posts ... [U]nder Mr. Murdoch’s leadership, the [WSJ] is no longer anchored by those deep dives into the boardrooms of American business with quaint stippled portraits, opting instead for a much broader template of breaking general interest news articles with a particular interest in politics and big splashy photos. [...] But there are growing indications that Mr. Murdoch, a lifelong conservative, doesn’t just want to cover politics, he wants to play them as well. A little over a year ago, Robert Thomson, The Journal’s top editor, picked Gerard Baker, a columnist for The Times of London, as his deputy managing editor.... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407078/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:08:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383179/posts After a summer of silence, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch has piped up to say that his newest Fox News star, Glenn Beck, "was right" when he called President Obama a racist in July even if he was wrong to say it. "On the racist thing, that caused a [unintelligible]," Murdoch said in an interview with his Sky News Australia over the weekend, referring to Beck's claim which seems to have been prompted by Obama's reaction to the controversial arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates. "But [Obama] did make a very racist comment about blacks and whites and so... The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383179/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:16:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366268/posts Sky News is now streaming its TV channel for free over its website 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Despite Rupert Murdoch's mumblings about charging for all online content, the site is free - for now at least. Murdoch said yesterday that it was time for aggregators and search engines must start paying for news content - a slight refinement on previous announcements which seemed to want to get some money out of the readers. theregister.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366268/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:43:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360990/posts I’m going to say three words to you and I want you to think hard before responding: O’Reilly. Olbermann. Co-anchors. No, I kid. Given the chairman’s opinion of Kayo, the only thing he’d be anchoring is the 2 a.m. edition of SportsCenter if ESPN took him back. Which, let’s face it, they wouldn’t. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWSA.O) and John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp (LINTA.O) are interested in NBC Universal, according to a report by CNBC, citing sources. Cable company Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) has been widely reported to be in talks with NBC Universal parent General Electric Co (GE.N) to... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360990/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:47:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359503/posts News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch has launched a stinging attack on Google and other online entities for stealing content. At a conference of World Media Executives at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at search engines like Google as internet parasites. According to the News Corporation Chairman, the so-called "aggregators" on the internet steal content from traditional media organisations and, he says, the time has come for them to pay for it. "If we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid-for content, it will be the content creators - the people in... ABC (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359503/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:51:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322901/posts The Wall Street Journal, which is also owned by Dow Jones publishing group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, reported over the weekend that the company was in discussions with potential buyers of the business. Goldman Sachs has been appointed to lead the talks. News Corp bought Dow Jones for $5.7bn (£3.45bn) in 2007 but was recently forced to write down $2.8bn of the purchase price after its publishing operations were hit by the fall in advertising. Potential buyers of the indices business have been named as Bloomberg, FTSE – which is a joint venture between the Financial Times Group... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322901/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:53:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309090/posts MURDOCH: 'WE PLAN TO CHARGE FOR ALL OF OUR NEWS SITES'... 'WE WILL START CHARGING FOR FOXNEWS.COM'... Q. WILL YOU SHUT DOWN ANY OF YOUR NEWSPAPERS?' A. 'ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE... BUT NO PLANS FOR IT' FOXNEWS PROFIT 50% HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR... VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW JAMES CAMERON FILM... http://drudgereport.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309090/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:03:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309360/posts Vivian Schiller, now CEO of National Public Radio in the US, said in an interview with Newsweek last week that talk of charging for news online is "mass delusion". She should know. Schiller was head of nytimes.com when it charged and then stopped charging for its content. If you can charge for your content - if you are the FT or the Wall Street Journal, the only brands that do it successfully - and your readers can make money on your content, and pass the cost of it onto their employers I have nothing against it. But for most, pinning... Guardian.UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309360/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 04:28:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309336/posts This is big. ... Not because its Rupert Murdoch who said it (the chairman of News Corp) Its big because it could set the trend for others to follow. Murdoch says he plans to charge for all the online content. (Would I be blogging on this if I had to pay for it? Would you be reading this if you had to pay for it? ) So when will he start charging? cbs47 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309336/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 03:47:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309338/posts see link FT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309338/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 03:48:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309119/posts Media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch told analysts in a conference call after News Corp released its full year results that the traditional newspaper business model has to change. "The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution," Mr Murdoch said. "But it has not made content free. Accordingly we intend to charge for all our news websites," he said. He said News Corp would use the Wall... Business Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309119/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305695/posts Truce Reached in Cable News Feud Keith Olbermann of MSNBC Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel regularly trade swipes at each other on their cable news shows. By BRIAN STELTER July 31, 2009 It was a media cage fight, televised every weeknight at 8 p.m. But the match was halted when the blood started to spray executives in the high-priced seats. For years Keith Olbermann of MSNBC had savaged his prime-time nemesis Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel and accused Fox of journalistic malpractice almost nightly. Mr. O’Reilly in turn criticized Mr. Olbermann’s bosses and led an exceptional... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305695/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:32:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304020/posts The sale of The Weekly Standard should put paid to any lingering illusion that the neoconservative empire was anything but a Potemkin Village. Whatever happens from this point on, the news of Rupert Murdoch’s repudiation of his ugliest stepchild is as refreshing a pick-me-up as the morning’s second Bloody Mary I am enjoying, anchored off Spetzai on the Bushido with Chronicles’ incomparably hospitable columnist, Taki. The only thing needed to make my happiness complete would be for the boys of National Review to take the hint and sell out for oh, maybe $2 million. Allegedly, Murdoch sold the magazine for... Chronicles Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304020/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:03:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2298218/posts Fox News is on a tear. Its ratings have surged and its competitors have declined, not just in share, but in total numbers. When Fox News began in 1996 it was given little chance for success. But by 2001 it began surpassing CNN the only other all news cable channel at the time. The hunger for better balance, so lacking at CNN, vaulted FNC into the lead. It now has prime time demo ratings larger than its two competitors combined. From Media Life Magazine: "When Barack Obama arrived at the White House six months ago, there was a lot of... Island Turtle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2298218/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:17:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289261/posts The world's most powerful media moguls are "very bearish" on the economy, but they don't seem to be blaming President Obama for the tough times, Rupert Murdoch says. Apart from Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, both owned by News Corp., the media "remains very supportive of him, perhaps not of all of his policies," Murdoch told Stuart Varney of Fox Business Network. Speaking during an interview with Varney on Thursday at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, the News Corp. chairman and CEO also criticized the stimulus bill that was supposed to have juiced the... Hollywood Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289261/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273083/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) – MySpace, the social network owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said it will cut 30 percent of its staff to lower costs as it struggles to stay popular in the face of rising competition. MySpace will be left with about 1,000 employees, it said in a statement released on Tuesday. The company declined to say how many people work at the service, but the percentage suggests that about 400 people will lose their jobs. The cuts, which were presaged in several blog reports in recent weeks, are the biggest move so far by new management at... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273083/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:38:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269622/posts "Video: Some things need to be defended..." Krauthammer: "....I've long thought that the Bush/Cheney administration will be treated by history like the Truman administration. But the one aspect of that I got wrong is the timing; whereas it took 50 years for Truman's work and genius to be acknowledged, we are only 5 months into the new era, and with every day and every action by this administration of adopting the wise policies that Bush/Cheney administration had adopted, even as it denounces them at the same time, the vindication of the last administration is strongly under way, and that in... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269622/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:11:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248989/posts News Corp plans to introduce micro-payments for individual articles and premium subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal's website this year in a milestone in the news industry's race to find better online business models. "A sophisticated micropayments service" will launch this autumn, Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal, told the Financial Times. The move will position the Journal as the first big newspaper title to adopt a model many are studying cautiously as they seek to reduce dependence on plunging advertising revenues. It comes as John Kerry, the Massachusetts senator leading congressional hearings on... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248989/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 02:35:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248537/posts Operating income at News Corp.'s cable networks, meanwhile, was up 30 percent, with revenue up 11 percent. And although it won't break out specific figures for individual networks, the company said its biggest gainer was the home of Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. "This past quarter, Fox News achieved its highest operating profit ever, nearly doubling its profits from the previous year's quarter," Murdoch, News Corp.'s chairman and chief executive, said in a conference call. "It's a stunning achievement for a 13-year-old network." A Newspaper Whose Parent Company is in Bankruptcy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248537/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 15:30:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247377/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) – As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch. The much-villified Australian-born media tycoon is preparing to battle against the practice many hold largely responsible for newspapers' current plight -- the "original sin" of giving away their content for free online. The 78-year-old Murdoch announced this week that the days of free are over. He said he planned to begin charging readers of the websites of News Corp. newspapers "within the next 12 months," testing the scheme "first on some of our stronger ones. "We... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247377/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 03:15:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246685/posts Poll upert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year. 'The current days of the internet will soon be over,' he said, as the media strived to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Would you pay to read papers online? guardian uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246685/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 04:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2246348/posts This was a few short months ago... MURDOCH WARNS: NATIONS WILL BE REDEFINED, FUTURES ALTERED Tue Feb 24 2009 08:36:39 ET Media baron Rupert Murdoch issued an urgent internal communication late Monday, warning his staff: "We are in the midst of a phase of history in which nations will be redefined and their futures fundamentally altered." MORE The dramatic call comes as markets continue their plunge and the future of media becomes increasingly muddled. "Many people will be under extreme pressure and many companies mortally wounded," Murdoch declared. "Our competitors will be sorely tempted to take the easy beat, to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2246348/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 20:10:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236024/posts Thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Bill Ayers’ “comrade” and Weather Underground terrorist Mark Rudd is on a book tour, trying to cash in on his bloody record. Murdoch’s Harper Collins published Rudd’s book, Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen. This week he is in the San Francisco/Oakland, California area. According to Rudd’s website, he has other speeches and lectures scheduled around the country. [snip] On Thursday [today, April 23, 2009!], we are holding a news conference in San Francisco to demand justice in the case of the bombing murder of Sgt. McDonnell. If you are in the San Francisco... Accuaracy n Media - AIM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236024/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:37:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222339/posts No one can accuse News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch of being an economic cheerleader, despite his net worth of $4 billion according to Forbes magazine. In an interview with Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto on April 2, Murdoch was not hopeful the financial markets would recover their value within the next 12 months. "Look, I'm not a market expert," Murdoch said. "I would say this is a bear market rally still. We're not going back to the old levels in any hurry at all. That's two or three years away." ..more (w/video).. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222339/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 17:19:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209815/posts Over the years, some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were. So let me set the record straight: I live in New York. I have a wife who craves Chinese food. And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word "chutzpah." Ladies and gentleman, I am humbled by the honor you have given me - because this award speaks more to your good work than it does to mine. The American Jewish Committee started in response to the persecution of Jews in... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209815/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:54:24 GMT