Right-wingers occasionally ask people on the left if there are any immigrants who’ve done such terrible things that they should be deported. To which I think we lefties are obliged to reply: Of course there are. I can think of one immigrant who has devoted himself with a single-minded fury to eroding democratic processes, stoking […]
Rupert Murdoch
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Meet the Billionaires Backing Team Blue With a Megaphone Only Money Can Buy
Conservatives have the Kochs and Rupert Murdoch, but progressives have their mega-donors, too.Â
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What Murdoch Teaches Us About Policing Global Corporate Abuse
Rupert Murdoch and News Corp may end up being prosecuted in the US under a 1977 US law known as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for their illegal bribes to officials in Britain. The law prohibits American companies from bribing foreign public officials overseas. I had a hand in both drafting the law and […]
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The Sun Sets on a Media Empire
The British political class may finally be rid of Rupert Murdoch.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Rupert Murdoch Won’t Let the WSJ Talk About a Lower-Valued Dollar
Okay, maybe someone else is preventing them from making sense in talking about the imbalances between China and the U.S. Incredibly, the WSJ suggests that the U.S. needs to save more to correct this imbalance. The WSJ probably has not been able to find out that the U.S. is in the middle of a recession, […]
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Rupert Murdoch is Aware of Some Internet Traditions.
News Corp media mogul Rupert Murdoch certainly has some unconventional views about the Internet. He’s already made it clear that he thinks fair use is a scam — ignoring the fact that the majority of newspaper content is generated through fair use — by recently accusing the BBC of copyright infringement. Now, he’s accusing Google, […]
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RUPERT MURDOCH NOW OWNS THREE MAJOR NEW YORK PAPERS.
He has purchased Newsday, the voice of Long Island, which used to also have a venerable Manhattan-based Metro desk, but which has scaled back there in recent years. Newsday would share content with Murdoch‘s New York Post, which would significantly change the tenor of its coverage, pushing it to the right. So let’s review New […]
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RUPERT MURDOCH’S MSM-PIRE HAS ARRIVED.
RUPERT MURDOCH’S MSM-PIRE HAS ARRIVED. It looks like the media mogul has finally bullied the Bancrofts into submission. The New York Times reports that the family has tentatively authorized Murdoch‘s $5 billion buyout of The Wall Street Journal‘s publisher, just months before the debut of Murdoch latest on-air venture, the Fox Business Channel: For Mr. […]
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Does The Wall Street Journal Deserve Murdoch?
So it looks like Murdoch will be taking over the Wall Street Journal. But is his hunger for the Journal nothing more than the paper’s karma? The New Statesman thinks so: Let us imagine that a century-old manufacturing company based in a Midwestern town is being stalked by a corporate asset-stripper. The company turns a […]
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Murdoch The Scorpion
The editors at the Columbia Journalism Review caution that the Bancroft family, which owns the Wall Street Journal, shouldn’t be lulled into complacency by Murdoch’s promises of good behavior: A familiar fable tells of a scorpion that asks a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is sensibly fearful of getting stung. But […]
