Rupert Murdoch

Source: www.moreover.com --- 26 days ago
Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 32 days ago
Barack Obama tonight walked into the hostile territory of the rightwing network, Fox News, and said that the troops surge in Iraq was working "beyond our wildest dreams" in an appearance meant to reassure conservatives about his readiness to be commander-in-chief ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 34 days ago
Rupert Murdoch helped broker a truce between Barack Obama and Fox News boss Roger Ailes earlier this year, according to the media mogul's biographer. By Oliver Luft ...

Source: www.fark.com --- 24 days ago
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Source: dir.salon.com --- 11 days ago
As if we needed even more proof of News Corp.'s willingness to cravenly curry favor at every opportunity. ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 33 days ago
Rupert Murdoch brokered a "tentative truce" between the head of his Fox News network and Barack Obama at a secret meeting according to the author of a new book on the media tycoon. ...

Source: gawker.com --- 19 days ago
If you were Rupert Murdoch's niece, you'd probably keep it under wraps too. Anna Torv, the Vera Farmiga-esque star of J.J. Abrams new X-Files rip-off sequel homage? inspired show Fringe, is the... ...

Source: gawker.com --- 22 days ago
Sure, you knew Anderson Cooper was the adorable unicorn of TV news anchors, but did you know he is so incredibly magical he can roll his tongue into a "really complicated four-leaf clover?" He can!... ...

Source: valleywag.com --- 28 days ago
Why doesn't News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch just make it official? His wife, Wendi Deng, serves as "chief strategist" for MySpace China, the media conglomerate's Internet outpost in her homeland.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Source: gawker.com --- 18 days ago
The doubters were wrong: the Wired cover featuring dating columnist/microcelebrity Julia Allison is one of the best-selling covers for the tech magazine in the last eight years, Portfolio reports. We... ...

Source: gawker.com --- 19 days ago
"Whoever wrote that crap, it's nonsense," Murdoch said. "I'm not interested. We're not interested in buying any more newspapers." [ Politico ] ...

Source: wireless.sys-con.com --- 26 days ago
Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in the upcoming elections. CNBC's "Power Lunch" team interviewed Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff about his Vanity Fair piece and his upcoming book. read more ...

Source: www.paidcontent.org --- 24 days ago
Esquire condenses three hours of talk time with News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ) chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch into one long anniversary-issue oral history of sorts >oral history of sorts . (Sorry, no battery-operated flashing lights here.) Some excerpts: -- On MySpace, Facebook and the internet : "We got a big wake-up call from Facebook last year . We put a lot of new things in this year. You can't write off MySpace. It is a genuine social network where people go to look for friends, to make friends, to look for people with common interests. Facebook—I don't want to put it down. It does interesting things and has some very able people there, but it is fundamentally a sort of directory. It's opened up recently to let people bring in new applications. A huge number have tried to do this, but not that many have succeeded. People spend a lot more time on MySpace than they do on Facebook. Every survey agrees on that. Facebook, they tend to go in to contact friends, to look up who they are going to be in college with, to find old friends, or whatever. On MySpace, people go to look for new friends." -- On WSJ vs NYT : "It sounds old-fashioned talking about newspapers, but The Wall Street Journal is a unique opportunity. I think there's an audience for a really good national and international paper. If you can make it really strong in national and international news, and keep it at a very high intelligence level, you're going to get the most a ...

Source: en.afrik.com --- 33 days ago
Fox News is seen by the Obama campaign as among its most hostile critics. Mr Obama initially ... efforts by the Kennedy family to secure a meeting with ... , Michael Wolff writes in the current issue of Vanity Fair. ...

Source: feeds.portfolio.com --- 34 days ago
Is Rupert Murdoch behind the rumor that Michael Bloomberg might buy The New York Times ? Michael Wolff, who interviewed the News Corp. chairman extensively for an upcoming book , thinks he is -- although Wolff himself also deserves some of the blame. In an excerpt of the book in October's Vanity Fair , Wolff says he often used tidbits of gossip to loosen Murdoch's tongue. Having dreamed up the Bloomberg- Times scenario on his own, he says, I offered it to him as a bit of speculation -- conflating two of his favorite subjects, Bloomberg, whom he greatly admires, and the Times , which he does not -- that a Bloomberg- Times deal could be possible. He paused, considered, opened his mouth, seemed blissed out for a second, processed this information against his own needs and interests ... and then said, "It makes sense. I think I'll ask him." And suddenly the rumor was everywhere -- he was telling everybody, which made it true. But in fact, says Wolff, Murdoch himself harbors a very serious and longstanding desire to own the Times . [I]t's obviously irresistible to him. I've watched him go through the numbers, plot out a merger with the Journal's backroom operations, and fantasize about the staff's quitting en masse as soon as he entered the sacred temple. Other tidbits of note from the excerpt: -Murdoch "blithely" disregarded the document he had put in place to safeguard The Wall Street Journal 's editorial independence : It barely figu ...

Source: www.observer.com --- 4 days ago
It rained hard on Wednesday. By the time guests started to arrive at Bourbon Street—the New Orleans-themed saloon in the Theater District—the rain had tapered off but the streets had that shiny, film noir, old New York look. You could almost imagine Travis Bickle cruising by in an old yellow taxi talking about how a real rain would some day come to clean up our dirty streets. It was, in short, the perfect atmosphere for the party Rupert Murdoch was hosting in honor of Steve Dunleavy , the longtime New York Post columnist, reporter and editor. Mr. Dunleavy cut his teeth in New York journalism writing about the Son of Sam. The old New York now familiar only as a kind of ghost story about garbage strikes, rampant muggings, heroin dealers, squeegee men, Times Square street walkers, economic malaise and social dysfunction—that was his New York.  read more » ...