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Olbermann Slams Bill O'Reilly, Rupert Murdoch In "World's Worst Persons" Segment (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Msnbc, World's Worst Persons, Olbermann Video, Olbermann O'reilly Truce Over, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Worst Persons in the World, Rupert Murdoch, Media News

Well, Lloyd Grove was right that the truce between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly wouldn't last long. Olbermann slammed O'Reilly...

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Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Countdown, General Electric, President Obama, Olbermann-O'Reilly Feud, Media, Media Censorship, Obama, Journalistic Independence, Fox, Keith Olbermann, Olbermann, Jeffrey Immelt, Msnbc, Politics News, O'Reilly Feud, Jeff Zucker, Journalistic Freedom, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Olbermann O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Brian Kilmeade, Censorship, Olbermann-O'Reilly Truce, The New York Times, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Nbc, Media News, Olbermann Feud, O'Reilly, Media Feuds, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Michelle Schweiger Schecter

A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong

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Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Immelt Met To Broker MSNBC-Fox News Truce: Report

Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, News Corp, Fox News MSNBC, General Electric, Rupert Murdoch Jeff Immelt, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Jeff Immelt, Media News

News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch and General Electric chief Jeffrey Immelt met up at -- appropriately enough -- the Microsoft CEO summit in Redmond, Wa...

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No Excuses: Why The TV Nets Must Carry Obama's Press Conference This Week

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Press Conferences, Abc, Fox TV, Rupert Murdoch, Nbc, New York Daily News., Cbs, Hollywood Reporter, Barack Obama, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The unprecedented pity party television executives have been throwing themselves since Obama was inaugurated continues.

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10 Ultra-Expensive CEO Divorces (PHOTOS)

Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Most Expensive Divorces, Jack Welch, Marie Douglas-David, Slidepoll, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Costliest Divorces, CEO Divorce, Craig McCaw, George David, Ted Turner, Business News

The world's best CEOs are accustomed to expensive lifestyles, jaunts in private planes and perks galore. But there may be no better evidence of the la...

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Rupert Murdoch Engages in a Bit of Portal-Speak

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Portals, Myspace, Online Advertising, Internet Advertising, Hulu, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

Social networking has been clubbed to death. It needs to stop. We need to let the poor animal escape off the beach and prosper as it might, or might not, in nature.

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Could Murdoch's Love of Gossip Doom His Family?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

Read More: News Corp, Michael Wolff, The Guardian, Gossip, Wiretapping, Rupert Murdoch, Media, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, James Murdoch, Rebekah Wade, Media News
Michael Wolff

Gossip, for Murdoch, is partly business intelligence, but Murdoch also likes to know who is sleeping with whom. It is a prurient interest, but it is also leverage.

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The CIA and Murdoch Will Get Away With It

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Tabloids, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Cia, Leon Panetta, Investigation, Celebrities, Media News
Michael Wolff

The CIA and the Murdoch organization are protected by their own consistently bad behavior and negative image.

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Murdoch Tabloid Hacked Into Cell Phones Of "Hundreds Of Celebrities And Politicians": Report

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Murdoch Lawsuit, Journalists Phone Hacking, Phone Hacking, News Group, Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch, Murdoch Phone Hacking, Media News

LONDON — The tricks of the trade of Britain's rambunctious tabloid press came under scrutiny Thursday, after a newspaper reported that a tabloid...

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Sun Valley Media Conference Photos: Mogulmania Day 1! (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Tim Armstrong, Tom Friedman, Slideshow, David Zaslav, Les Moonves, Robert Iger, Herb Allen, Haim Saban, Ron Meyer, Sir Martin Sorrell, David DeVoe, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, John Scully, Robert Wiesenthal, Michael Lynton, Sun Valley, Sun Valley 2009, Media News

The annual Allen & Company summer media conference kicked off in Sun Valley, Idaho Tuesday night and by Wednesday morning the attendees were decked ou...

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News Corp, CBS In Harsh Sun Valley Spotlight

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, Sun Valley 2009, Les Moonves, Cbs, Sun Valley, Media News

NEW YORK/SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - News Corp's Rupert Murdoch and CBS Corp's Leslie Moonves will likely be under a harsh spotlight at this year's ...

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News Corp Will Keep MySpace, Won't Purchase Twitter: Murdoch

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, Twitter, Sun Valley 2009, Myspace, Sun Valley, Media News

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network...

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Bob Iger: "People Are Going To Pay" For Content Online

WSJ | Julia Angwin | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Blake Krikorian, Twitter, Sun Valley 2009, Sling Box, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Evan Williams, Bob Iger, LeBron James, Allen Company, Sun Valley, Allen and Company, Media News

As the media moguls gather here in Sun Valley, Idaho, for their annual schmooze-fest, there is one phrase on everybody's lips as they emerge from thei...

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Wall Street Journal Plans NY Culture Section In Bid To Compete With Times

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York

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Eighteen months ago, at the Marriott Hotel on West Street in the Financial District, Rupert Murdoch had his first meeting as owner of The Wall Street ...

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Murdoch, Google Eye Twitter As Moguls Gather In Sun Valley

Guardian | Bobbie Johnson in San Francisco | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Google Twitter, Murdoch Google Twitter, Murdoch Twitter, Twitter Future, Allen Company Sun Valley, Allen Company, Sun Valley, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Sun Valley 2009, Media News

As the media world's most powerful figures gather in Sun Valley, Idaho to discuss the state of the industry the topics are likely to range far and wid...

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Did Rupert Bed Jackie?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Affairs, Jackie Kennedy, Jfk, New York Post, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Rfk, Jackie O, Media News
Michael Wolff

Is it really possible to have had as much sex as the Kennedys had? Well, anyway, thank God for it. The Kennedy sex saga is really the story that keep...

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Rupert Murdoch: CNBC's On-Air Talent Not 'All That Good'

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media

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Rupert Murdoch spoke last week with TheStreet.com. In the interview the media tycoon denied interest in the New York Times, dissed Twitter, and dug i...

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Rupert Murdoch Denies Interest In New York Times, Disses Twitter, CNBC

The Street | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Newspapers, Rupert Murdoch New York Times, Media News

TheStreet.com: Michael Wolff has written in Vanity Fair that you want to buy The New York Times (NYT Quote), that you've planned out the deal in detai...

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Eebs: A History of Future Publishing

Giles Slade | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Jobs, Swiss Army Knife, Whiskey, Stanza, Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Ipod, Digital-Ecosystem, Aap, Wall Street Journal, Sony, Apple, Google Books, Chocolate, Rupert Murdoch, Iphone, Ebooks, Technology, Lingerie, Itunes, Amazon, Google, Ereaders, Epublishing, Amazon Kindle, mp3, Media News
Giles Slade

The Kindle is for the book-lover who might buy a first, a signed or a special edition. It is lingerie. It is a box of chocolates or a bottle of double-malt. Competition will drive it to adapt, and it will.

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Conservative Media vs. Progressive Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Philip Anschutz, Pittsburgh-Tribune-Review, Washington Times, RIchard Mellon Scaife, Rupert Murdoch, The Young Turks, Progressive Media, Ny Post, The Weekly Standard, Sirius Xm Radio, You Tube, Media News
Cenk Uygur

Do you know how many people read The Weekly Standard? 80,000. To put it bluntly, that's pathetic. Its main purpose is to spread Republican propaganda in the guise of news.

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And The Rains Came

Sherman Yellen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Rain, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Meryl Streep, Rupert Murdoch, Pete Seeger, Obama Family, Vegetarianism, Mark Sanford Affair, Global Warming, Arianna Huffington, Noah's Ark, Green News
Sherman Yellen

The trouble this modern Noah faces is that virtually every wild animal is now an endangered species, as is much of mankind, so rule number one is no eating the passengers.

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Can Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta Save MySpace or Is It Toast?

Charles Warner | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Myspace, Iphone, Social Media, Ipod, Twitter, Rupert Murdoch, Facebook, Social Media Networks, Media News
Charles Warner

What can MySpace do to grow? It has to start a new business, not merely tweak its tired old business. It can buy a disruptive technology, like Apple did when it launched the iPod and iPhone.

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Caution: Pundits On This Network May Appear More Relevant Than They Are

Dave Hackel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Delay, Rupert Murdoch, Fox, Vitter, Bill O'Reilly, Rove, Dick Cheney, Fox News, Santorum, Media News
Dave Hackel

Karl Rove never designed anything other than a way to help elect George Bush and Dick Cheney. He should be ashamed to show his face in public but, of course, that's why Fox loves him.

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Murdoch-Berlusconi Feud Over Reports Of Relationship With 18-Year-Old Model

New York Times | ERIC PFANNER | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Berlusconi Noemi Letizia, Murdoch Berlusconi, Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch Berlusconi Feud, Silvio Berlusconi, Media News

When Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi clash, it is no surprise that the dispute plays out across multiple platforms....

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Old Media: Why the End Takes a Long Time to Get To

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Media, Barry Diller, Online Advertising, Media News
Michael Wolff

Over the past number of months a consensus has formed among media companies trying to do business on the Internet that advertising alone cannot support their efforts.

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