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Mazel Tov! It’s Fox News’ 13th Birthday! It’s Bar Mitzvah…
wrightandleftreport | October 8th 2009 by Matthew Wright
Happy birthday to the most dominant news network on television. If only they would use their powers for righteous purposes, and not propagandist fire-breathing. Still, it is important to recognize the milestone. Rupert Murdoch has turned the netwo read more
Why does The New York Post support racism?
at-Largely | October 7th 2009 by Larisa Alexandrovna
The Murdoch rag - The New York Post - continues to act as a propaganda vehicle for corporations and the Republican party, while seemingly having no problem embracing racism with both hands: ... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com read more
Times and Sunday Times unveil membership schemes
Western Journalism | October 7th 2009 by Caleb
News International has unveiled a new model for The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers with the launch of a membership scheme that gives readers access to exclusive events and special offers in return for a £50 annual fee. Murdoch is shaking up read more
The commie Glenn Beck wont talk about? His Boss!
The Accidental Patriot | October 7th 2009 by The Accidental Patriot
This story is by John H. Richardson is a repost from Esquire.com. Glenn Beck’s commie-hunt continues! Last month he was waving the bloody pelt of Van Jones. “We need to at least in this country start having the necessary discussion of, Do read more
Is There a Hole in the Middle of the Information Age?
The Scholarly Kitchen | October 7th 2009
Newspapers created a choke point for information supply. How do we avoid creating a hole at the center in the age of the demand economy? read more
Corporate sponsored propaganda continues to attack health-care re…
at-Largely | October 6th 2009 by Larisa Alexandrovna
It is unfortunate that a foreigner, Rupert Murdoch, can have so much control over domestic policy debates. Moreover, he gets ad money from the very people and industries that his reporters then go on... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely read more
Murdoch tries £50 a year Times club
WhizzyBiz - Watching Out For Great Marketing Ideas | October 6th 2009
From the Independent: “News International has launched a paid membership scheme connected to its Times newspaper titles, as the latest bid to combat the decline in industry revenues by targeting new revenue streams. The group, headed by read more
Boris blows London’s trumpet.
Financial News | October 6th 2009 by Mark
According to Boris Johnston, London is the best city in the world to do business, Boris, the current Mayor of London Johnson who during his visit to New York, enjoyed the privilege of ringing both the opening bell at NASDAQ and the closing bell at th read more
Prensa online de pago: realidad, ficción o un sueño de los gran…
GurusBlog | October 5th 2009
Ya comenté hace unas semanas que pensaba que el “todo gratis” en cuanto a los contenidos empezaba a tener los días contados. Me refería a que creo que veremos dentro de no mucho tiempo a los principales periódicos y medios de información, ta read more
Moderate Tories also support the impartiality of British TV
Soho Politico | October 3rd 2009 by Soho Politico
Yesterday, I looked at how Labour should respond to Rupert Murdoch's officially abandoning them for the Tories. Whereas the Tories have indicated that they would slash the regulations that prevent Murdoch from achieving his cherished goal of br read more
Bad day dawning for newshounds – soon to be no more freebies.
Financial News | October 2nd 2009 by Mark
The golden age that has not been long with us looks like it will soon be disappearing into the sunset. That is the era of free access to web content. Media analysts are predicting that within a year more than two thirds of online publications will be read more
Labour should now pledge to defend political impartiality on Brit…
Soho Politico | October 2nd 2009 by Soho Politico
In an excellent column today, Johann Hari highlights (as I did last week) how the Tories have indicated that they would embark in government on a purge of the media regulations that have so far prevented Rupert Murdoch from achieving his longstanding read more
Time to stand up for the BBC
Letters From A Tory | October 2nd 2009
Dear Johann Hari, Much as I find your Independent columns rather dull affairs for the most part, today I will make an exception. Although the recent declaration of support for the Conservatives from Rupert Murdoch may seem like little more than pol read more
Look out any window
Paris Parfait | October 1st 2009
Rain-spattered window, Oxford Street, London. If you and I look out this window, chances are we won't see the same things. A tsunami in Tonga and the Somoan Islands; an earthquake in Indonesia. Refugees driven from their homes by the... read more
“We still support Labour,” says the Beano
The London Drummerboy | September 30th 2009 by Steve
Gordon Brown brushed aside The Sun's attempt to derail his speech by revealing that rival newspaper "The Beano" has backed him to win another term. "The Sun is just a grubby porn rag run by some sour-faced Aussie," he said. "And for every one of them read more
It’s the Sun wot will win it…
Plenty2say | September 30th 2009 by Chris Gaynor
GORDON won’t be a happy bunny this morning – mobile throwing on the cards? All that hard work in his conference speech only to wake up to the headline from The (Murdoch) Sun, “Labour Have Lost It.” And what The Sun newspaper s read more
DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Wendi Murdoch
DISGRASIAN | September 25th 2009
Mr. and Mrs. Rupert MurdochMaybe we're wrong to judge Wendi Murdoch for her giggling evasian of New York Magazine's prying questions about whether she likes or watches that fuckhole Glenn Beck.From NY Mag's Daily Intel Blog:"'I can’t say!' she said read more
Moose Tracks
B;og of Revelation | September 25th 2009 by Tim O'Donnell
Tracking the stories that are much too hot for the American MSM.Glenn Beck: "It's all over, but the crying" The Latest Setbacks for Fox News and Glenn BeckNew York - That snowball, known as, 'advertisers jumping ship', is now as big as the State of A read more
Get ready for a British Fox News, courtesy of the Tories
Soho Politico | September 25th 2009 by Soho Politico
We know that Rupert Murdoch has long nursed the ambition to import the format, style and ethos of Fox News to the UK. From the Guardian in 2007, for instance: The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said he wants Sky News to become more like his ri read more
The Gayest Show on Television - GLEE
JoyZeeBoy | September 24th 2009
In case you haven't seen it yet, do tune in. It's on Fox, no less. Rupert Murdoch doesn't really care where the money comes from, the extreme right in his news businesses, the moderate left (us) in the entertainment field. Just as long as, well, t read more
Magere fünf Prozent der User ist für Bezahlinhalte im Netz
Die Dreckschleuder | September 22nd 2009 by Horts
Laut Freeman bleibt es abzuwarten, ob die Nachrichtenindustrie diesen Sprung machen und anfangen wird, für Content Gebühren zu verlangen, der so lange kostenlos war. read more
Rupert Murdoch plans to charge for reading online newspapers...
Communati.com - Learn to Write & Blog | September 21st 2009 by Mark Whitbeck
Monday, September 21, 2009 Rupert Murdoch plans to charge fread more read more
Rupert Murdoch plans to charge for reading his online newspapers.…
Huttriver8's World - My selected posts | September 21st 2009 by peter petterson
News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch plans to charge people to read his newspapers’ websites within the next year. It's a bold move designed to claw back some of the $4 billion in lost revenues — in a year that has been "the most difficult in recent his read more
Anyone still think news pay walls will work after looking at this…
This is Herd | September 21st 2009 by Dirk Singer
Check out the following survey done by paidContent:UK. They asked people what they'd do if their favourite news site started charging - note their favourite site, not just any old online news service. The result? Three quarters would go elsewhere read more
Rupert Murdoch To Charge For Online Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Con…
Gadget News, Reviews and Stories | September 18th 2009 by Kash
Global media big shot, Rupert Murdoch will start charging alll WSJ (Wall Street Journal) subscribers to access online content. Murdoch’s bizarre plan kicks in next month, with a $104 fees for non-print or online subscribers for the WSJ Mobile R read more
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008 showcase
New Beltane | Digital Media | September 18th 2009 by Steven Dale
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008 showcases the work of the most talented emerging young photographers, photography students and gifted amateurs alongside that of established... Read more..... read more
Asian Trophy Wives: Every Moguls Fantasy?
Models And Moguls | September 17th 2009 by John Williams
According to Chu, when the comedian/writer/director ditched his wife Mia Farrow for their adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, Allen "may as well have sent out a press release: Asian-girl fantasy trumps that of Hollywood royalty!" Related Posts As read more
Wall Street Journal Takes Paywall Fight to Mobiles
Epicenter |wired.com | September 17th 2009 by John C Abell
Dow Jones will start charging next month for Wall Street Journal stories delivered via its iPhone and Blackberry apps — a long-anticipated move spurred on by News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, who has complained as loudly as any media executive that the read more
Save The BBC!
Anonymousteenager's Blog | September 17th 2009
The BBC is being attacked from all sides, and somebody needs to help it! Labour is attacking the BBC: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6837699.ece Newspapers are attacking the BBC: http://business. read more
Murdoch puts his hope in the e-reader. But is he still making an…
This is Herd | September 17th 2009 by Dirk Singer
Kirk La Pointe of the Vancouver Sun has a post up about Rupert Murdoch's latest media pronouncements, made to the Goldman Sachs annual media conference. Murdoch repeats what he told Fox News the other month that the printing presses will finally st read more
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