Sort by Raw Story (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009 - YouTube
Sky News political editor David Speers talks to News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch about paywalls, politics, and more.
Sort by Raw Story (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Rupert Murdoch was hailed as an old-media pioneer when he bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005. While the new media social networking site has fallen behind its peers, its still made back more than the purchase price for Murdoch's News Corporation empire. Now Rupert Murdoch has a new approach to the Web: Screw you. In an [...]
Sort by TechCrunch (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles...
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
After President Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley, Glenn Beck infamously declared on Fox & Friends that Obama “exposed himself” with the incident “as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture.” Challenged [...]
Sort by Gizmodo (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Rupert Murdoch says he'll bar Google from indexing any of his sites. Apparently Murdoch is under the impression that readers who come into his vast media empire (which includes Sun , The Times , The Wall Street Journal , FOX News/movies/channel, MySpace, and I-don't-even-remember-what-else) through Google aren't going to lead to any sort of profit: If they're just search people... They don't suddenly...
Sort by Mashable (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
The media today is widely reporting an excerpt from Rupert Murdoch’s interview with Sky News Australia, in which he says he plans to make News Corp sites invisible to Google’s search engine. While Murdoch has been on the verge of saying that for quite a while now, this is the first time he actually uttered it. But one has to listen to the entire interview to understand that Murdoch is not quite clear...
Sort by ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
Media titan and News Corp czar Rupert Murdoch seems to be on a warpath against Google's spiders, particularly with regard to Google News' indexing of News Corp items. In an interview today with Australian media outlet Sky News, Murdoch hinted that when News Corp sites start charging users for access to content around June 2010, said content will be de-indexed from all search engines. It's an old-school...
Sort by Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
Corey Doctorow lays into Rupert Murdoch's bold plan to take all of News Corp.'s web sites out of Google search and undo fair use borrowings of Fox material: You know what? He's lying. But I think it'd be entertaining if every reporter who interviewed him, for the rest of his life, said, "Hey, Rupert, when are you going to take all your company's websites out of Google?" It'd also be hilarious to get...
Sort by The Business Insider (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Rupert Murdoch defended Glenn Beck's accusation that the president was a racist in his long interview with Sky News Australia. At the 18:04, the interviewer says "Glenn Beck who you mentioned has called Barack Obama a racist, and he helped organize a protest against him and others on Fox have likened him (Obama) to Stalin is that..." Murdoch's reponse: "No, no, no, not Stalin, I don't think, not one...
Sort by Media Matters for America (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
He failed miserably with MySpace. He launched the right-wing TheFoxNation.com claiming it was "time to say 'no' to biased media and 'yes' to fair play and free speech." Quit laughing. He may be interested in buying Twitter.com. He paid big bucks to settle hacking lawsuits. Now, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp the parent company of Fox News, is apparently readying himself for war with Google....
Sort by Paidcontent (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Rupert Murdoch was in Sydney for the latest News Corp earnings call but that wasn’t the only talking he did down under. The News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ). chairman and CEO was interviewed by some of his own newsies, including a lengthy video session with Sky News political editor David Speers, embedded below. As it spun through Twitter, Murdoch was claiming his sites will remove themselves from Google (...
Sort by GigaOM (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Rupert Murdoch, founder and the head honcho of News Corp., the largest media company in the world wants to block access to his content and set-up pay walls around it. News Corp already does it at The Wall Street Journal. “The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our [...]
Sort by Epicenter (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Rupert Murdoch has made this kind of noise before (and he gets wrong the extent of actual public access to Wall Street Journal content online, which is 100%). But in an interview with Sky News the News Corp chairman sounds a lot like he would be inclined to take up Google on its oft-repeated suggestion [...]
Sort by Don Surber (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
A few lefty bloggers are having palpitations over this, but 18 minutes into a 37+ minute interview with Sky News (which his company owns) Sir Rupert Murdoch was asked about Glenn Beck. Murdoch said the president made a racist remark. Murdoch said: “On the racist thing, that caused a [ruckus]. But [...]
Sort by VentureBeat (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch told Sky News interviewer David Speers that he will remove his news sites — The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Times of London and many more — from Google’s search index. I’ve posted the 37-minute interview here, and am working on excerpting the good quotes.
Sort by The Inquisitr (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
News Corp founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch has told an interview with Sky News Australia that News Corp will likely remove News Corp content from Google. The revelation came early in the interview, after Murdoch claimed that Google and others are stealing News Corp content in response to a question about who he was talking about [...]
