http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rupertmurdoch/ en-us Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:38:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3031982/posts Hong Kong gossip has it that the first time Wendi Deng met her future husband Rupert Murdoch, she accidentally-on-purpose spilled red wine on his trousers. Recounted by the Australian journalist Eric Ellis, the story is probably apocryphal, but it still captures something important: she is the sort of person other people like to tell stories about – and the more outrageous the better. Deng is evidently not one to be bound by normal rules. And that is why we may wonder whether even Rupert Murdoch, equipped as he is with a steel-trap mind (not to mention the best prenuptial advice... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3031982/posts#comment Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:38:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3031451/posts Tony Blair denied outrageous internet rumours today linking him with the divorce of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng. The internet was awash with unfounded suggestions that the former Prime Minister may have been romantically involved with 44-year-old Miss Deng, who is a close friend. The feverish speculation followed a Twitter claim by BBC business editor Robert Peston, who has close links with senior Murdoch empire insiders, that he had been ‘told that undisclosed reasons for Murdoch divorcing Deng are jaw-dropping - & hate myself for wanting to know what they are’. The rumours are understood to have been emphatically rejected... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3031451/posts#comment Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:34:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3023488/posts News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is complete. The New York-based media conglomerate also said Friday that the target date for the split is June 28. The company holding its TV and movie properties will be 21st Century Fox. The new News Corp., a smaller entity, will be focused on newspapers and publishing. Both will be publicly traded, under separate ticker symbols. … The... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3023488/posts#comment Fri, 24 May 2013 20:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2766101/posts On April 8, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi headlined a Boston conference on ''media reform.'' She was joined by four other congressmen, a senator, two FCC commissioners, a Nobel laureate and numerous liberal journalists. The 2,500-person event was sponsored by a group called Free Press, one of more than 180 different media-related organizations that receives money from liberal billionaire George Soros. Soros, who first made a name for himself in investing and currency trading, now makes his name in politics and policy. Since the 2004 election, the controversial financier has used his influence and billions to push a laundry list... Media Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2766101/posts#comment Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:23:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3005689/posts Girl Guides have thrown their support behind the “No More Page 3” campaign, in a bid to stop the perpetuation of the idea that “women are objects” in a family newspaper. Girlguiding UK has signed the campaign to try and force the hand of Rupert Murdoch, who hinted a few weeks ago that he is considering ending the publication of photographs of topless models on page 3 of The Sun—which he owns, as chief executive of News Corporation. … Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3005689/posts#comment Tue, 9 Apr 2013 08:15:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003747/posts The Los Angeles Times is up for sale, and there are super-wealthy conservative bidders. Get the popcorn out and watch the liberals squeal. The hilarious kickoff came when two leftist collectives -- the Daily Kos website and the California-based Courage Campaign Institute -- set out to buy an ad in the LA Times to protest the Koch brothers pondering a bid. I kid you not, the ad began: "WE NEED NEWS, NOT MORE SPIN." This would assume that today's Los Angeles Times -- which just endorsed Obama's re-election -- is an oasis of objectivity in a desert of media bias.... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003747/posts#comment Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:13:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003424/posts Tribune Company’s moves to sell its newspapers—a string that includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune—has reportedly sparked the interest of a number of heavyweight financiers. These include familiar media moguls like Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch. But heads turned when another pair of possible bidders emerged early in March: the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. The Koch brothers, of course, are best known for funding conservative causes and conservative politicians. Unlike Buffett, who has purchased 63 newspapers in the last 15 months, and Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal and the New York... The Columbia Journalism Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003424/posts#comment Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:59:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984574/posts Immigration Reform: Rupert Murdoch and the Fox News Factor 9:37AM Saturday February 2, 2013 (WASHINGTON) -- In the brewing battle over a path to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, Fox News Channel is uniquely positioned to play a make-or-break role. The question is, will it? Advocates on both sides of a proposed U.S. immigration overhaul are closely eyeing the nation's most-watched cable news network -- and megaphone -- for politically-conservative causes as it joins a rapidly escalating national debate. Will the network and its high-profile opinionators fan the flames of opposition to a comprehensive reform plan, or... Chicago WLS AM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984574/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:25:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983832/posts For many Americans, Fox News is their “alternative” choice for news. They’ve made it the No. 1 cable news network, largely because they believe its “fair and balanced” promotional slogan. Many even believe Fox leans to the right and provides news they can’t get anywhere else. But is Fox really different from the rest of the media? Or has it been successful merely at positioning itself as different? Would it surprise you to know that individuals at News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, gave nearly six times as much money to Barack Obama than Mitt Romney in the... WND.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983832/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:11:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982869/posts Rupert Murdoch apologized on Monday for a “grotesque” cartoon in his London-based Sunday Times newspaper depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a bloody wall trapping the bodies of Palestinians, after complaints from Jewish groups. The image, which shows Netanyahu holding a trowel dripping blood, was published on Holocaust Memorial Day and carried the caption “Israeli elections. Will cementing peace continue?” The Board of Deputies of British Jews said the cartoon was “shockingly reminiscent of the blood libel imagery more usually found in parts of the virulently anti-Semitic Arab press”. The so-called “blood libel”—accusations that Jewish peoples murder children and... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982869/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:20:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2974841/posts In August, Rupert Murdoch's FX picked up a Cold War series set in the 1980s titled "The Americans." Liberals might have braced themselves for the worst. It sounded like some kind of Chuck Norris-style "jingoistic" homage to freedom-loving intelligence agents. But this is Hollywood, so the show instead focuses on KGB spies who speak perfect English, working to destroy Reagan-era America, which is not altogether a bad thing to people in Hollywood. Joe Weisberg, who worked for more than three years at the CIA, first wrote a script about two CIA case officers stationed in Bulgaria. Fox bought that script,... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2974841/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:42:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2971299/posts So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch's ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America's democratic institutions on a scale equal to his success in kidnapping and corrupting the essential democratic institutions of Great Britain through money, influence and wholesale abuse of the privileges of a free press. In the American instance, Murdoch's goal seems to have been nothing less than using his media empire – notably Fox News – to stealthily recruit, bankroll and support the presidential candidacy of General David Petraeus in the 2012... The London Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2971299/posts#comment Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:39:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969123/posts Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons? As in Oz after similar tragedy. - Rupert Murdoch | Twitter ++++ News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch expressed support for an automatic weapons ban tonight following today's shooting in Newtown, Conn. "Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?," Murdoch wrote on Twitter. Murdoch made a similar call following the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., in July: "We have to do something about gun controls. Police license okay for hunting rifle or pistol for anyone without crim or pscho record. No more,"... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969123/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:29:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961268/posts Founder and chief executive of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, apologized for posting a message on Twitter slamming the "Jewish owned press" for its anti Israel coverage of the Gaza conflict. Murdoch reportedly received angry responses to his tweet, which asked: "Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?" "Middle East ready to boil over any day. Israel position precarious. Meanwhile watch CNN and AP bias to point of embarrassment," Murdoch wrote in a second tweet in support of the Jewish state. Due to negative backlash, the media mogul tweeted an apology ... Arutz Sheva http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961268/posts#comment Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:45:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944371/posts News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch went on a bit of a Twitter tear Saturday morning, predicting a “nightmare for Israel if Obama wins” re-election and accusing the White House of “still lying about Benghazi.” The media mogul — whose company owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and others — said Vice President Joe Biden “threw [the] CIA under the bus“ and ”now [White House] throws State [Department]!” He also came down on Mitt Romney, saying the Republican presidential nominee needs to ignore personal attacks at the next debate and focus on his jobs plan:(continued) The Blaze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944371/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:46:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2934488/posts Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read Back in 1983, approximately 0 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don't even stop to think about who... http://stateofthemedia.org/media-ownership/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2934488/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929478/posts Ever since Rupert Murdoch started his Twitter account, he has been sounding off on everything from gun control to Scientology. Now he’s offering some words of advice for Mitt Romney, tweeting earlier today that the Republican nominee needs to get more specific and to “stop fearing [the] far right” abandoning him if he makes a play for the middle because they have “nowhere else to go.” Murdoch acknowledged that the Democrats scored a “big net win” with their convention, highlighting Bill Clinton‘s “brilliant” speech. He went on to say that between now and the November election, Romney has to offer... Mediaite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929478/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920996/posts Michael Bloomberg, the independent mayor of New York City, is no one's idea of a hardline Republican conservative. Media titan Rupert Murdoch, whose empire includes Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, is no one's idea of a squishy Republican moderate. And Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a lifelong Democrat, is no one's idea of a Republican at all. It isn't every day that three men with such disparate ideological profiles find common cause, let alone on a high-profile issue that has been roiling American politics for years. But there they were at Boston's Seaport Hotel one evening last week, jointly... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920996/posts#comment Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:16:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903283/posts 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... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903283/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2012 02:38:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2902625/posts The eldest son of Rupert Murdoch has denied he ever considered joining Scientology after reports emerged claiming Tom Cruise tried to convert him. Lachlan Murdoch was assiduously courted by the Hollywood star in 1999 while they were both living in Australia, according to the Daily Beast. Cruise, who had moved to live near his then-wife Nicole Kidman's family, was said to be determined to bring the younger Murdoch into the Scientology fold, believing that he would soon take over his father's media empire. Cruise reportedly traveled with Murdoch and his friend James Packer on private jets, all the while evangelizing... Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2902625/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:32:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2902086/posts At a private meeting with a group of influential supporters including Rupert Murdoch, Mitt Romney said he wasn’t going to flip-flop from his past positions on immigration, according to Politico: Murdoch chimed in, three sources said, telling the candidate on the issue of immigration generally, “You have to take the fight to Obama on this.” Romney said the Hispanic vote is important, noting he has Sen. Marco Rubio on the trail for him and that one of his own sons speaks Spanish, but indicated he is not going to change positions from some of what he said in the primaries.... Talking Points Memo / The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2902086/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2012 22:35:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2901801/posts <p>Rupert Murdoch, New Corp. chief executive... took to Twitter on Sunday to weigh in on the breakup of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.</p> <p>"Scientology back in news," Murdoch tweeted. "Very weird cult, but big, big money involved with Tom Cruise either number two or three in [hierarchy]."</p> Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2901801/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:15:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888673/posts Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favorable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry on Monday. The inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid admitted hacking phones, has tarnished Britain's elite by laying bare the collusion between politicians, the police and the media. Blair kicks off an important week at the Leveson inquiry by answering questions about his often obsessive media management which included courting Murdoch. The inquiry has so far focused... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888673/posts#comment Mon, 28 May 2012 05:37:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2881624/posts The New York Times really loathes Rupert Murdoch. The Gray Lady almost achieved nirvana on the front page the other day when a group of laborites in the British Parliament asserted in a "damning report" that Murdoch was "not fit" for major media ownership. Bill Keller, recently the paper's executive editor, devoted his latest column to Fox News with the headline "Murdoch's Pride Is America's Poison." The man who edited The New York Times is blunt: "I would argue that -- at least for Americans -- Fox News is Murdoch's most toxic legacy." If that's not ridiculous enough, try this:... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2881624/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2012 11:35:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878991/posts Ethics watchdog asks FCC to revoke Fox's broadcast licenses By Andrew Feinberg - 05/02/12 09:56 AM ET An ethics watchdog group is using the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday, arguing that U.S. law states that broadcast airwaves shall only be licensed to people of "good character" and used "in the public interest." They're asking the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses for the 27 stations the Fox network... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878991/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2012 15:22:22 GMT