RUPERT MURDOCH AND THE MEDIA. One day those two terms might be used as synonyms for each other. That certainly seems to be Mr. Murdoch‘s dream. He already owns vast acres of the international media landscape, or his News Corporation does(Plug in News Corporation in the search box). But he yearns for more, and that […]
Rupert Murdoch
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MURDOCH’S CONSCIENCE MONEY.
MURDOCH’S CONSCIENCE MONEY. Okay, Bill, you got in Chris Wallace‘s stuff good and proper. (Wallace has been on my radar since he ran one of the most dishonest pieces of reportage I’ve ever seen over on ABC when he assaulted the Supplementary Security Income program based on fake data and spurious — remember Crazy Checks? […]
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Citizen Rupert
April 6 must have been a dark day Down Under. Since Midnight Oil broke up and Paul Hogan stopped making Crocodile Dundee movies, Australia’s undisputed, unofficial ambassador to the northern world has been the beloved and bejowled Rupert Murdoch (Russell Crowe doesn’t count; he’s actually from New Zealand). Never mind that Murdoch became a U.S. […]
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Rupert Redux
Rupert Murdoch is back in the news. But then when is he not in the news? He is the news — this time by virtue of having granted a rare interview to the enemy side, arriving here in the person of David D. Kirkpatrick of The New York Times. The interview demonstrates once again the […]