Is Rupert Murdoch simply unaware of what happens in his own company, or is he lying through his teeth? Or, both? Here’s a brief conversation where he, apparently, shows how completely out-of-touch he is with the loss of revenue Glenn Beck has caused (or how out-of-touch the viewers are who believe his reasoning).
SPOCKO: I know [...]
Written on May 13, 2010 | Posted in
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News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is either feigning ignorance, or he’s completely out of touch with reality…
MURDOCH: No. I don’t think we should be supporting the Tea Party or any other party. But I’d like to investigate what you are saying before condemning anyone.
Here are numerous examples to help with Murdoch’s investigation:
“Join Your [...]
Written on April 19, 2010 | Posted in
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is reportedly pressuring Time Warner to pay a per subscriber fee, or else News Corp will pull Fox and all affiliated stations from Time Warner’s channel lineup. This has been referred to as the “Wingnut Tax.”
Apparently, Murdoch wants $1.00 per Time Warner subscriber, per month, but the cable company’s response [...]
Written on December 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Showing that the misinformation we’re used to seeing from Fox News starts at the top, Media Matters for America has put together the following list showing recent falsehoods from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch.
falsely characterized Sean Hannity as being an “academic”;
falsely characterized Glenn Beck as being “purely Libertarian”;
falsely claimed nobody on Fox [...]
Written on November 17, 2009 | Posted in
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Rupert Murdoch wants Google to not index his online properties, thus decreasing exposure and traffic to those web sites. Here’s how you can help to not visit his properties by adding these sites to your .hosts file located at C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\
127.0.0.1 askmen.com
127.0.0.1 broadsystem.com
127.0.0.1 dj.com
127.0.0.1 dailytelegraph.com.au
127.0.0.1 fijitimes.com
127.0.0.1 [...]
Written on November 17, 2009 | Posted in
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Rupert Murdoch has publicly addressed his desire for Google to not index his content, so he can charge people to access it. As the CEO of News Corp. and, ultimately, the head honcho of Fox News, he can easily do this. As was pointed out previously, all he needed to do was ask.
Now, it’s come [...]
Written on November 12, 2009 | Posted in
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Remember back in July, Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist? Of course you do… it resulted in Beck losing 80 advertisers! So, now, why in the world would the CEO of Fox News‘ parent company, Rupert Murdoch, publicly defend Glenn Beck and agree with Beck’s assertion that Obama is a racist?
“On the racist thing, [...]
Written on November 10, 2009 | Posted in
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Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, has issued another idle threat in response to what Murdoch perceives to be theft of information. Apparently, he wants News Corp. content removed from Google, because Google is not paying him to index content, and in connection with his idea of requiring visitors [...]
Written on November 10, 2009 | Posted in
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OUTFOXED (DVD) – In this scathing documentary from Robert Greenwald, the Fox News Channel comes under fire. First the film illustrates the way that its owner, Rupert Murdoch, has dominated the media, buying up TV stations, cable channels, and newspapers worldwide. Next, Fox’s reporting tactics are looked at with a fine-tooth comb, revealing a clear [...]
Written on September 10, 2009 | Posted in
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal, has reached out to other newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post and Hearst Corp. Since Murdoch’s decision to charge users to access content on the Wall Street Journal’s web site, he has apparently realized that it will only work [...]
Written on August 25, 2009 | Posted in
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