Rupert Murdoch

Olbermann: Murdoch "Worst Person" For Using Fox News As Vendetta Machine (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News MSNBC, Fox News, Keith Olbermann Rupert Murdoch, Keith Olbermann, Media News

Keith Olbermann named News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch "Worst Person in the World" Thursday night for his admission that Fox News decided to "retaliate" a...

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Gordon Brown: Murdoch's Sun Trying To "Become A Political Party"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Gordon Brown, The Sun, The Sun Labour, James Murdoch, Labour Party, Gordon Brown the Sun, Media News

Another international leader has come out attacking a Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlet as a political operative. As the White House continues its wa...

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Lebanon's LBC TV Rides Layoffs Wave Ahead of Murdoch Buy-in, Arab Media Market Expansion

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media

Lebanese media group LBC recently sliced 140 jobs, is trimming fat, and repositioning itself for a mega deal involving Rupert Murdoch's purchase of shares in Rotana Media.

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How Well Do You Know Bernie Kerik?

Len Levitt | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Joe Dunne, John McCain, John Picciano, Bernard Kerik and Giuliani, Ray Kelly, Bernard Kerik, Judith Regan, Michael Bloomberg, George W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Nypd, Howard Safir, Bernie Kerik, New York News

Bernard Kerik is now Inmate 210-717, awaiting his corruption trial. And Rudolph Giuliani has already paid dearly for appointing Kerik -- his presidential ambitions among the toll.

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Jon Meacham: Fox News Attack Makes Obama Seem More Progressive Than He Really Is

Newsweek | Jon Meacham | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Propaganda, Obama, Media, #Newsweek, Roger Ailes, Tv, Television, Politics, White House, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Meacham, TV News, Fox, John McCain, Media News

To the base, the White House looks tough, willing to hit back--all while the base is getting few of the substantive reforms it has fought for. I am no...

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Fox News Is the Story

Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Josh Gerstein, White House, Happening Now, Bill Shine, The Nation, Martha MacCallum, Politico, FOX Report, America’s News HQ, Dick Morris, Ruth Marcus, Cavuto, Jake Tapper, Tea Parties, Roger Ailes, Fox News Sunday, Fox Business Network, Trace Gallagher, Julie Banderas, Jon Scott, Chris Wallace, Mike Huckabee, Rupert Murdoch, The Fox Nation, Washington Post, Bernard Goldberg, Fox News Channel, Greg Gutfield, Brian Kilmeade, Bernie Goldberg, Bill Clinton, News Corp, Red Eye, Tom Rosenstiel, Greta Van Susteren, Studio B, Shepard Smith, Bill Hemmer, Mike Allen, Center for Media and Public Affairs, FoxNation.Com, Steve Doocy, The Live Desk, Barack Obama, Harris Faulkner, Special Report, Fox News Watch, Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, America’s Newsroom, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, ABC News, John Nichols, Robert Gibbs, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.

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Marc Lamont Hill Found Out Through 'Google Alert' That Fox News Fired Him

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Marc Lamont Hill, News Corp, Marc Lamont Hill Fired From Fox News, Google Alerts, Marc Lamont Hill Fired, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Google Alert, Media News

Last week HuffPost reported that liberal Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Lamont Hill had been fired. The news was announced by News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch ...

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Glenn Beck Had Armed Body Guard, According To Page Six

Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Communism, Glenn Beck Bodyguard, Body Guard, Obama Racist, Nancy Pelosi, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Memphis Musical, Assassination, Glenn Beck, Obama, Threats, Bodyguard, Media News

Glenn Beck is using an armed bodyguard, according to the New York Post's Page Six. The Fox News host who distrusts the government, has called Preside...

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Is Dr. Fox-enstein - Roger Ailes - Building Another Monster?

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Birthers, Msnbc, Cnbc, Lou Dobbs, Crossfire, The Glenn Beck Show, Immigration, Roger Ailes, Fox Broadcasting Company, Tucker Carlson, Fox Business Network, RFD TV, Fox Business, Chris Wallace, Rutgers Womens Basketball Team, Cnn, Don Imus, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Savage, Fox News, 20/20, John Stossel, Glenn Beck, ABC News, Dancing With the Stars, Fox News Channel, Media News

For months now, Roger Ailes has been putting the finishing touches on his first monster, Fox News Channel, just as its bride, Fox Business Network, is showing signs of life.

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Murdoch's MySpace Is Probably Pretty Much Worthless

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Facebook, Social Networking, Myspace, Rupert Murdoch Myspace, Media News

How much is a deeply troubled, money-losing social network that has long-since surrendered its buzz and momentum to Facebook worth? Not much.

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Memo To The Media: Fox News Is Now the Opposition Party

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Politico, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Washington Post, Roger Ailes, Newsweek, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to criticize the competition -- because those rules no longer apply.

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The Most Glamorous CEO Wives (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Wendi Murdoch, Slidepoll, Melanie Craft, Melanie Knauss-Trump, Peter Clark, Veronica Lario, Dianne Von Furstenberg, Salma Hayek, Kristy Hinze, Carl Icahn, Silvio Berlusconi, Gail Ichan, Rupert Murdoch, Erica Baxter, Erica Parker, Barry Diller, Kathy Freston, Oleksandra Nikolayenko, Business News

The world's top CEOs are, of course, known for their expensive hobbies, ridiculous spending, and legendary work habits. But what they're not always kn...

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Murdoch Spars With Chinese President Hu At Media Summit

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Hu Jintao, Media News

In an unprecedented exchange, Chinese president Hu Jintao and global media executives including News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch sparred in su...

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All Aboard! The Right's Fox News Gravy Train Rolls On

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Town Halls, Greta Van Susteren, Dick Morris, 9/12 Tea Party March, Steve Doocy, Roger Ailes, Rep. Joe Wilson, Fox Business Network, Barack Obama, Republican Governors Association, Fox Business, Mike Huckabee, Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, Tax Day Tea Parties, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, James Rosen, Independence Day Tea Parties, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Republican Party, Fox News Channel, Republicans, Media News

Perhaps it's the rallies or the fundraising or the demonstrably false attacks that have kept Obama from appearing on Fox. Regardless, the right's gravy train rolls on undeterred, facts be damned.

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Why The Sun's Cameron Endorsement "Is All About Murdoch's Son James"

The Independent | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, The Sun Gordon Brown, The Sun David Cameron, James Murdoch, Media News

The truth is that Rupert can't stand David Cameron. He physically reacts to his name. He gets a sour face. His shoulders twist away. The way David loo...

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Murdoch: TV, Print Advertising Picking Up

Wall Street Journal | KENNETH MAXWELL | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Advertising, Media News

News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said Monday that traditional newspaper and television advertising markets are picking up, echoing growing se...

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Why Rupert Murdoch Will Fire Glenn Beck

Ben Cohen | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Obama, Glenn Beck, Media News

Glenn Beck is unlikely to moderate his position unless his corporate paymasters instruct him to do so. And if they do, he'll lose the base of fringe right idiots who tune into his show on a nightly basis.

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Is Bias Creeping Into Murdoch's Wall Street Journal?

nytimes.com | David Carr | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Wsj, Wall Street Journal, Media News

Many fans of The Wall Street Journal worried that the newspaper would become a cat toy for Rupert Murdoch after he bought it, but the paper's shift to...

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Content Is Not King

Charles Warner | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, Stephen King, Bruce Greenwald, Jonathan Knee, The Atlantic, Ava Seave, Media News

The explosive growth of the Internet has led to such a proliferation of content out in the long tail that it is now virtually infinite.

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Eric Schmidt Questions Murdoch's Online Pay Plan

The Independent | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Online Fees, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Schmidt, News Corp, Newspapers, Newspapers Online, Google, Media News

Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Go...

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Murdoch vs. Berlusconi: News Corp Sues Two Berlusconi Companies

Guardian | John Hooper | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch Berlusconi, Sky Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, Media News

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation last night announced that it was suing two of the firms in Silvio Berlusconi's media empire, accusing them of refusi...

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Flash! Glenn Beck Forces President to Resign!

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 09.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Glenn Beck Van Jones, Jim Croce, Health Care Reform, Rupert Murdoch, Propaganda, Yosi Sargent, Fox News, Leroy Brown, Political Satire, Obama, National Endowment for the Arts, Comedy News

In effect, Obama has emboldened Beck with the veto power over presidential appointees that is generally reserved for the Senate.

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Why Roger Ailes Made $24 Million Last Year -- More Than Murdoch!

BusinessWeek | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Roger Ailes, Roger Ailes Salary, Media News

Anyone who ever wondered how important the Fox News Channel is to Rupert Murdoch and News Corp (NWS) need only peruse the company's recent proxy state...

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My Letter to Rupert Murdoch

Trish Nelson | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Media Criticism, Right Wing Media, Right-Wing Extremism, Media, Media News

Dear Mr. Murdoch: I have been sickened and saddened by the choices your news organizations have made to show, over and over, on TV, horrible, hate inspired images against President Obama.

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