Tag Archives: News Corp

Tweet Of The Day – Rupert Murdoch

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Rupert Murdoch On SOPA

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BREAKING: Protestor Attempts To Hit Rupert Murdoch With A Pie

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UNSURPRISING: Fox News Glosses Over News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal

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Murdoch Scandal Hits Home: FBI Launches Investigation Of News Corp

The FBI has launched an investigation into Fox News parent News Corp, looking for evidence that the rightwing news organization may have hacked into the cell phones of 9/11 victims and family members. The inquiry apparently comes at the demand of wingnut Rep. Peter King (R-NY). The FBI has declined to comment on the investigation. According to the British press, …

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News Corp Sells MySpace

Six year’s ago Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp purchased MySpace for $580M. Yesterday the floundering site was sold for a mere $35M. The sale closes a complex chapter in the history of the Internet and of the News Corporation, which was widely envied by other media companies when it acquired MySpace in 2005. At that time, MySpace was the world’s fastest-growing …

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MySpace Likely To Shutter

News Corp is reportedly putting MySpace up for sale after cutting staff by 50% this week. If there are no immediately takers, the site is expected to shut down by June. This will come as a shock to millions who thought MySpace was already gone. The site lost $100M in the fiscal year that ended last June.

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A Very Special Message From Fox News

Media Matters takes on Rupert Murdoch over News Corp’s $1M donation to the Republican Party. By the way, the voice over is by D.C. Douglas, whom you may recall was fired by Geico after he left a ranting voicemail for Dick Armey’s astroturf outfit.

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Google Sets Limit On Free News Access

Days after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced a partnership with Microsoft to block their news stories from search engines, Google has revealed that they have created a program to restrict readers from reading too many stories on news sites without paying. Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can …

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News Corp Teams Up With Microsoft To Block Google’s Indexing Of Their Stories

Wired reports that News Corp is working with Microsoft on their project to prevent Google from indexing stories from the Wall Street Journal, NY Post, and other News Corp-owned publications. News Corp has rattled its saber in Google’s direction for months, as chairman Rupert Murdoch accused the company of “stealing stories” by posting links and short article excerpts on its …

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News Corp To Block Google Indexing, Silences YouTube’s Liberal News Clippers

JMG reader Jon in DC is under attack by Fox News for his YouTube news clipping channel, which provides this and many progressive blogs with video proof of the right wing’s buffoonery. Several days ago Fox convinced Google to once again suspend Jon’s YouTube account, meaning that numerous posts in the JMG archives will have dead videos. So much for …

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Explosion At News Corp Building

Several floors of the News Corp headquarters near Rockefeller Center have been evacuated after a chemical explosion on the 45th floor. Firefighters are reporting that “30 gallons of hazardous materials” may be the source of the explosion. There are no offices on the 45th floor, only machinery. The NY Post is on the 10th floor and Fox News is in …

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Judith Regan: Fox News Made Me
Lie To Protect Rudy

Former book publisher Judith Regan filed a $100M suit against Fox News parent company News Corp yesterday, claiming that senior executives encouraged her to lie about her affair with disgraced from NYC chief of police Bernard Kerik when he became a nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security. Regan’s suit alleges that News Corp was trying to protect the presidential aspirations …

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