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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, with his son Lachlan to head both companies. In a memo to employees, Murdoch said "the time is right" for him to take on "different roles". Murdoch, 92, launched Fox News in 1996. It is now the most watched TV news channel in the US.

Fox Corp boss, Rupert Murdoch has officially taken a side in the Republican race leading up to the 2024 National elections, and this time he is backing Ron DeSantis.According to Vanity Fair, the conservative news mogul invited the Florida Governor to his Vineyard in Bel Air, California for dinner in 2020 and assured him that Fox would support his potential presidential run in 2024.Earlier this year, signs of this sentiment became more apparent as Fox implemented a soft ban on Trump and began featuring DeSantis more frequently.Additionally, during this time, the Dominion lawsuit loomed over the news corporation, prompting it...

10 days ago a man from Illinois who took part in protests in both Chicago and Minneapolis was caught handing out explosives and encouraged others to “light that b***h and throw it” at police officers. He is facing federal criminal charges, but the mainstream media said that there are no bombs on the peaceful protests and that this man was not guilty Matthew Rupert, 28, was charged with civil disorder, carrying on a riot and possession of unregistered destructive devices, according to a federal complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota. And it seems that his bombs...

Sorry, no pop-culture references Astronomers have amassed such a gigantic database of identifiable celestial bodies, that naming these objects has largely fallen wayside in favor of efficiency. Devoting time and creative energy cooking up a unique name for a dot in the sky is not worth NASA’s (or other space agencies) time, considering the millions of stars in the observable universe. Exoplanets, planets orbiting a star other than our own, are a different story. Our spacecrafts and telescopes have only spotted about 1800 of them, including the first potentially habitable Earth-sized planet, a planet anticlimactically named Kepler-186F. This is all...

Gay actor Rupert Everett has provoked a furious backlash after saying that he 'can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two dads'. His comments will likely offend and surprise couples such as Sir Elton John and David Furnish because he has previously championed gay rights since coming out of the closet 20 years ago. Gay rights campaigners have rounded on the 53-year-old, with one saying he should 'get out a bit more'. Everett, an army major's son, has in the past rubbished the idea of homosexuals having children through a surrogate. But the latest remarks,

To hear Rupert Murdoch tell it lately, Mitt Romney lacks stomach and heart. He “seems to play everything safe.” And he is not nearly as tough as he needs to be on President Obama. Mr. Murdoch’s thoughts on the Republican presidential candidate’s prospects? “Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from the team.” Chances of that? “Doubtful,” he tapped out in a Twitter message from his iPad last weekend. Then, on Thursday, Mr. Murdoch’s flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, published a blistering editorial criticizing Mr. Romney’s campaign, accusing it of being hapless...

On the heels of the very-much-pro-candidate documentary "The Undefeated," British filmmaker Nick Broomfield is about to debut a much tougher cinematic profile of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. In this clip, Broomfield ("Kurt and Courtney") travels to a Central California rally for Palin, where all the questions are pre-screened -- Example: "What do you think about Obamacare?" (She doesn't like it!) Broomfield gets tossed when he violates the Q&A mandate and queries the probable 2012 Presidential candidate, "Do you think your political career is over?" Palin takes a long drink of water, then ducks the question, referring to her avid...

Dan Cooper, who helped launch Fox News as managing editor in 1996, said that a “brain room” carried out “counter intelligence” on the channel’s enemies from its New York headquarters. He was threatened after it found out he spoke to a reporter, he claimed. Another former senior executive said the channel ran a spying network on staff, reading their emails and making them “feel they were being watched”. The channel, which has come under pressure amid allegations that outlets owned by Mr Murdoch might have attempted to hack the voicemail messages of

"...We are begging to be destroyed. I hope everyone is feeling good about themselves in the process. That’s what this is all about, “look at me, I’m such a humanitarian because I pacify terrorists, I'm such a diplomat…” They gave Yasser Arafat a friggin Nobel Peace Prize!... I cannot say I’m surprised by Murdoch’s selling us out. Just because I prefer Fox News over the others, I have no delusions about this guy. It is clear Murdoch has put his back pocket ahead of US national security and national morality. Murdoch through the Fox Network is the biggest purveyor of...

"...The meddia, at our peril, venerate the terrorist Muhammad – and to be honest, that word is a euphemism for the so-called “prophet”. As I look at the western media dismissing a prescient man like Wilders, it reminds me of the years of disdain that Sir Winston Churchill endured from Parliament and the media as he vociferously warned them of the evils of Adolf Hitler. The ignorance toward the murderous intent of Islam upon the entire globe is absolutely surreal. Couple that with the extreme hostility those same appeasers of Islam have toward Christ and it will strengthen the faith...

I was recently forwarded a link to a column by conservative author Diane West. In this column (linked below) Ms. West points out some disturbing trends regarding the media mollycoddling of Islamic tyrants. A recent example she highlighted was their treatment of Geert Wilders. If you are not familiar with Mr. Wilders, it’s not surprising given the obvious pro-Islam bias our media has demonstrated. Wilders is leader of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands and has been sounding the alarms against the Islamization of Europe. Wilders became internationally known for his controversial film called Fitna - roughly translated as "strife"...

In the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Europe, an armada of Allied ships assaulted the beaches of Normandy, France. Simultaneously, thousands of airplanes dropped paratroopers into the action. Along with the paratroopers, the Allies also dropped hundreds of rubber dummies behind the enemy lines. Called “Ruperts,” these dummies were intended to simulate an attack to confuse the enemy. As the Ruperts landed, some German outposts were tricked into fighting the “paradummies,” creating a vital crack in the walls of Fortress Europe. We accept that kind of deception as part of a legitimate military operation designed to thwart oppressive forces....

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...

News Corp. reported a 30 percent drop in quarterly profits on Wednesday and the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch said its operating profit for the current fiscal year will drop because of the U.S. dollar's strength overseas and a slowdown in advertising revenue. Company executives said they expected a "low to mid-teens" percentage drop in operating profits in the fiscal year that began in July. The forecast was a major departure from analysts' expectations of profit growth. Murdoch, the company's chief executive who controls more than a third of its shares, said the forecast was a "clear reflection of...

Rupert Murdoch may not be done expanding his newspaper empire. The News Corp. chairman, who’s still digesting Dow Jones & Co., is now believed to have set his sights on Newsday. According to one newspaper industry insider, the company has made a bid for Tribune Co.’s Long Island paper. Newsday also owns amNew York, a daily tabloid handed out free in New York City. Talk of the bid has surfaced at the same time that Tribune’s new Chief Executive Sam Zell has said that an advertising downturn has forced him to consider selling off company assets. Additionally, Standard & Poor’s...

Despite his remarks on coverage, some expect changes on the Journal's business side first. If the Gray Lady didn't have enough problems battling industrywide woes, now she has Rupert Murdoch to worry about. The media billionaire has made no secret of his desire to take aim at the New York Times once his News Corp. acquires Dow Jones & Co. and its flagship Wall Street Journal in a $5-billion deal expected to close this fall. Murdoch said during an earnings conference call last week that he wanted the financial newspaper to have "more coverage of national, international and nonbusiness news...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on Wednesday reported a higher profit in its fourth fiscal quarter, led by higher revenue and income at its cable networks, but the subject of the day was the media giant's buyout of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. News Corp. said that net income in the three months ending June 30 rose to $890 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $852 million or 27 cents a share. The prior-year figure included a gain of $134 million, or 4 cents a share, on its sale of Sky Radio...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS) (NWS.A) said Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 19% on increased revenue at its film studios and television networks. New York-based News Corp. said said net income in the latest three months rose to $852 million, or 27 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $717 million, or 22 cents a share. Earnings in the latest quarter included a gain of $134 million, or 4 cents a share, on its sale of Sky Radio Limited. Revenue rose to $6.78 billion from $6.11 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call...

When 250 News Corp. executives gather this weekend for a management retreat at a posh California seaside resort, they'll skip the typical team-building exercises that such confabs are known for. Why role-play when you can pick the brains of actual world leaders and rock stars? Speakers at the Pebble Beach event will include such political powers as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former President Clinton and Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres. Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton will opine on remaking complex organizations, former Vice President Al Gore will riff on climate change, and U2's Bono will deliver a...

"It all started with Oprah. A few weeks ago, New York Post reporter Philip Recchia heard that Winfrey, recently embarrassed by the plagiarism of memoirist James Frey, had begun using Barrie's service to vet submissions and make sure prospective guests hadn't cribbed someone else's work. Recchia called Barrie and asked how his service worked, and Barrie offered to test a sample chosen by the Post. Recchia e-mailed a 2005 speech by Hillary Clinton. In a matter of minutes, Barrie found five instances of plagiarism." "Oddly, Recchia decided not to run a story about the senator. (When asked why, he declined...