Think Progress (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The New York Times editorial staff recently rejected an op-ed by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), which responded to a one published last week by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). The Times said Obama’s article “worked” because it offered “new information” and that they would be “pleased” to “look at another draft” from McCain. While the Times wanted [...]
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | yesterday
BIG BROTHER--HE'S REALLY MADE OF CARDBOARD, YA'KNOW I'm sure most, if not all of you, have heard of product placement. Well, until now, American news has been free of that rubbish. The news is the cornerstone of a free state. Without unbiased news, we cannot have an informed democracy, but instead fall prey to propaganda and marketing, which more often than not, distort the news to whatever the corporate...
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Ad Age scored an extremely rare interview with Arthur Sulzberger Jr. today. It's good placement for The New York Times publisher and chairman: his company is days away from releasing second-quarter earnings results, which aren't looking particularly great. Some good press is a welcome event since this year has arguably been one of Mr. Sulzberger's most challenging as publisher. The paper lost money...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Bitter personal rivalries usually aren't forgotten in journalism, much less laid aside in the interest of craft. (Just you wait till we all answer to Julia Allison). So it's pretty big indeed of Sir...
Gawker (Free subscription) | yesterday
You remember Marcus Brauchli? First, short-lived editor of the Wall Street Journal under the reign of Rupert Murdoch and now the newly-installed executive editor of the Washington Post? Well, it's a...
Gawker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rupert Murdoch and his deputy Robert Thomson are eager to get the Wall Street Journal's new magazine off the ground. The publication, WSJ., is to get the Journal in on a consumer-glossy bonanza that...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Good news for you Rupert Murdoch fans out there. The mogul's UK-based pay-TV juggernaut is preparing its own music service, and it's inked a deal with bigwig major label to help make it happen. Yes, BSkyB is getting into the...
Common Sense Journalism (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The World's latest technology podcast has a good piece from the BBC that delves into the reality of newspaper's woes. Lauren Rich Fine, Philip Meyer, Rupert Murdoch are among those interviewed or quoted from earlier remarks. ProPublica's editor contrasts how little of a typical newspaper's expenses go to getting the news to how much of his organization's do. It's about halfway into the MP3 podcast...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I popped over to the start of Fortune's Brainstorm conference primarily because they said Sir Martin Sorrell , who I consider to be one of the world's savviest media executives along with Rupert Murdoch, would be there. Unfortunately, Sir Martin couldn't make it because he is engaged in a multi-billion acquisition. Too bad, this is someone worth watching. Check out Reuter's Eric Auchard's interview...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I was tickled by reports linking Salman Rushdie with the Indian actress Riya Sen not because of their age difference -- he is 61, she is 27. These things happen. Rupert Murdoch is 77 and his wife, Wendi Dee, either...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When NBC Universal jumped into bed with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to launch YouTube-competitor Hulu, you just knew things were going to get tawdry. Murdoch, after all, has shrewdly and repeatedly...
Mark Bernstein (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
I talked about NeoVictorian Computing at a very well-attended PodCamp Boston yesterday. John Wall liked my argument that the debate about amateur journalism is usually presented in specious form. Journalists in mainstream media are workers, not professionals. Rupert Murdoch can make you a professional journalist by giving you a job, but he cannot make you a physician or a lawyer or an engineer. John...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
In the annals of business acumen, no single act of commercial chutzpah can surpass the company manoeuvres carried out by Rupert Murdoch over the period 2010 to 2014. To assess just how revolutionary, how completely beyond the reach of what any human individual had yet achieved in more than 30 millenniums of civilisation his actions were, it is useful to note that prior to the year 2010 the figure...
corksphere (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
RUPERT MURDOCH not only owns FOX NEWS but he also owns the New York Post . As would be expected, the New York Post slams Barack Obama's trip to Iraq and lies to their readers about the success of "the surge." The New York Post , naturally, believes everything Republican candidate for President John McCain says about Iraq. Following this propaganda piece in the New York Post, we present to our blog...
Main St. USA (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Blogtopia is filled with alternative magazine covers for next week's New Yorker. Here are just a few: The Edge of the American West Jeremy Glass News Corpse BarelyPolitical.com
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kamen group | 05/09/2008
Media Appraiser Convinced Murdoch Will Be Good For Long Island and Newsday Baldwin, NY- Media appraiser Kevin Kamen, president of Baldwin based Kamen & Co Group Services, said today that "the pending acquisition of Newsday by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch will be better for both Newsday readers and its employees than a Cablevision deal because Rupert understands the dynamics of owning and operating...
