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My Name Is Bill Swadley, And I Work For Fox

Bill Swadley | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

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Bill Swadley

Many employees, and we number in the thousands, who work on the entertainment side of Fox often feel embarrassed, ashamed, and angry at the blatant, one-sided, dis-informational tactics of the producers, staff, and on-air "talent" at Fox News.

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MySpace Music Launches, Challenges Apple's iTunes

Financial Times | Kenneth Li and Matthew Garahan | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

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News Corp's MySpace launches a new online music service on Thursday, aiming to loosen Apple's grip on the US music industry and challenge all other on...

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Lachlan Murdoch Visits Indonesia, Spurring Media Deal Talk

Reuters | Posted 10.15.2008 | Media

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Lachlan Murdoch, son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, met Indonesian tycoon James Riady in Jakarta last week, a Riady official said on Sunday, prompti...

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Fox News Picks Facebook Over News Corp's MySpace

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

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Fox News Channel wants more friends. But instead of reaching out on the News Corporation's own social network, MySpace, the cable news channel is choo...

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News Corp Profits Jump 27% Though TV And Interactive Still Struggling

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — News Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on profit from asset sales and higher operating earnings in most busine...

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Rupert Murdoch Increases Stake In India With Six New TV Channels

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media

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Deepening the News Corporation's extensive presence in Indian media, the chairman, Rupert Murdoch, announced on Monday that the company would invest $...

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Fox News: It's Eductaoinal!

Bob Harris | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: News Corp, Education, Spelling Bee, Spelling Bee Champion, Adult Illiteracy, Spelling Bee Winner, Fox News, Fox, Media, Scripps Nationals Spelling Bee, National Spelling Bee, Media News
Bob Harris

Hat tips to ThinkProgress and NewsHounds. ...

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Microsoft's New Yahoo Plans May Include Old Allies News Corp, Time Warner

Reuters | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business

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(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal ...

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News Corp, CBS, Hit 52-Week Lows

Hollywood Reporter | Georg Szalai | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

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It was a tough first half for big media and entertainment stocks as economic sluggishness, company-specific concerns and broader market declines -- pa...

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MySpace Redesign To Focus On Making So Much Money

The New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: News Corp, New Batman Movie, Social Networking, MySpace Redesign, Myspace, Murdoch News Corp Myspace, Business News

When the News Corporation added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing -- and ...

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Verdict In $1 Billion NewsCorp Spying Case

ABC News | Len Tepper and Brian Ross | Posted 05.22.2008 | Business

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Jurors in Los Angeles have reached a verdict in a $1 billion lawsuit alleging that a company in Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp empire spied on a rival and ...

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News Corp Withdraws Bid For Newsday

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.18.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island paper Newsday, a N...

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News Corp Earnings Triple As Newsday Sale Looms

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday he expects to clinch a deal to buy the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday within a week...

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Rupert Murdoch To Double The Price of The New York Post

New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

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Mr. Murdoch has set his sights on Newsday because he sees it as a way to eliminate losses at The New York Post, a News Corporation property that loses...

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Murdoch: Economy Hurting Advertising

Reuters | Kenneth Li | Posted 05.15.2008 | Business

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Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday stress in the U.S. economy is squeezing advertising budgets, adding that News Corp's (NWSa.N) Fox Interactive Media w...

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Actress Judy Davis Sues News Corp Subsidiary For Defamation

AP | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment

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Judy Davis told an Australian court Tuesday that she stopped attending her daughter's soccer games out of anguish over newspaper articles she claims s...

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The Media Shopoholic Strikes Again

Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

Read More: News Corp, Media Consolidation, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Rupert Murdoch Newsday, New York Post, Newsday, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Washington Post, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Media Monopolies, Media News
Marvin Kitman

Whenever Murdoch is depressed, my studies over the years as a media pathologist find, he has what he calls "an expansionist lunge." And when he's in one of them he can't be outbid.

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Rupert Murdoch Vs. FCC In Battle To Control New York Media — And Wage War Against The New York Times

Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

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Several stories this morning highlight Rupert Murdoch's battle to control New York media — first by ousting the editor of the Wall Street Journa...

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WSJ: News Corp Nearing $580M Deal For Newsday

Wall Street Journal | Merissa Marr | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

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Tribune Co. is closing in on an agreement to sell its Long Island newspaper Newsday to News Corp. for about $580 million, according to individuals fa...

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Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React

PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

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With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analyst...

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Internet, Media Stars Line Up for Yahoo

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale feat...

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Justice Dept. Sues News Corp For Refusing To Pay FCC Fine

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media

Read More: News Corp, Fox Married by America, Fcc, Scott Grogin, FCC Fines, News Corp Lawsuit, Married by America, Media News

WASHINGTON — In an unusual move, the Justice Department sued Fox Broadcasting Co. and another broadcaster Friday to collect $56,000 in fines for...

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News Corp. Blows MySpace Targets, Dumps Sales Chief

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business

Read More: News Corp, Fox Profits, FIM, Myspace, Techcrunch, Rupert Murdoch, Fox Interactive Media, News Corp Missed Targets, Fox Revenue, Business News

News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media group, which includes MySpace and other web sites, will miss the company's goals of $1 billion in revenue and $200 ...

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Fox News Ironically Needs Endangered Species Act

236.com | Posted 04.06.2008 | Media

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Time magazine, pondering the fate of Fox News, called the network a "cultural artifact of the Bush era." Ratings have begun to plateau and MNSBC is co...

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Media Mogul Battle! Murdoch, Zuckerman Both Eyeing Another New York Paper

Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2008 | Media

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As first reported yesterday by Crains New York, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch — who recently acquired Dow Jones (and the Wall Street Journa...

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