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Fox News le declara la guerra a Obama

Blog Tele | October 13th 2009 by www.100Blogs.com

No son buenos tiempos para el Yes, we can: Barack Obama, quien uno creería el hombre más poderoso del planeta, enfrenta una dura oposición a su plan de salud, a su política en Afghanistan, y hasta se le culpa de ser el responsable de la perdida a read more

EhticalMartini

No Future! A pessimistic and money-grubbing view of journalism

Ethical Martini @ Wordpress | October 12th 2009 by Martin Hirst

The Philistine phase of the digital age is almost over. The aggregators and the plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content. But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid-for content, it will be th read more

CaelumSilensNocte

Murdoch wants IT all

Emeralds and Ash | October 11th 2009 by Gorgonzola Happiness

Rupert Murdoch has all but declared war on internet search engines for using the content that his (and others') websites are generating. It seems more than just a little bit duplicitous for this billionaire tycoon to claim that search engines which read more

goblinRFD

Its our news…pay up! – Murdoch’s rant?

Openbytes | October 11th 2009

Pay up! News content on the Net? Would you be willing to pay for it? Rupert Murdoch and Tom Curley are reported to have made a strong speech at the World Media summit in Beijing.  Their issue?  News aggregators, Google, Bloggers and just about any read more

justrootspr

MySpace Music Australia Launches Without Leading Local & Global I…

Blues in the Digital Age | October 10th 2009 by Dave King

MySpace’s disregard for the value of independent music has been exposed by yesterday’s Australian launch of MySpace Music prior to having finalized a license with Australia’s leading independent labels and artists. MySpace Music Aus read more

gilwaters

The S-Word

Dead Zone Times | October 10th 2009 by Gil A. Waters

{pic by luna715} Judging from the signs and slogans which are so often on display during “tea parties,” “9-12” protests, and other tawdry public gatherings of the Radical Right, there seems to be a lot of confusion within the read more

ArabNews

Obama as Nobelist, Obama as game-changer

Arab News | October 10th 2009

I was listening to National Public Radio on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, and they brought on some nonentity from one of Rupert Murdoch’s faux “magazines,” who delivered himself of the remark that whe read more

scbs

Website Pengguna Berita Harus Bayar

SCBS FM | October 10th 2009 by fm

Rupert Murdoch Raja Media dan pemilik News Corporation mengatakan telah tiba saatnya bagi mesin pencari Internet seperti Google dan website lain untuk membayar berita dan artikel yang selama ini mereka terima secara gratis. Dalam orasinyanya di KTT M read more

geofffox

Rupert Murdoch From Both Sides Of His Mouth

Geoff Fox - My Permanent Record | October 9th 2009 by Geoff Fox

Murdoch blames the search engines, but the truth is the entire business model for advertiser supported information is broken. read more

wordsmith36

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

Larisa

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

westernjournalism

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

accidentalpatriot

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

kentanderson

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

Larisa

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

SimonSaysMedia

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

Draco71

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

SohoPolitico

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

Draco71

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

SohoPolitico

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

Lettersfromatory

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

SteveDrum

“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

rex6666

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

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

BrotherTim

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

SohoPolitico

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

JoyZeeBoy

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

4topas

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