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...name of one of Rupert Murdoch??s more controversial projects, Fox News Channel, is something of a misnomer. The channel cannot be considered an objective source of information by any stretch of the imagination, and to deem it “news” is an insult to the very idea of what true journalism is. The list of misdeeds and controversies in which Fox has been embroiled are a Wikipedia page long, and the jesters whom they now seem fond of employing represent little more than proof that, in America, dishonesty and insanity do not preclude gainful...
...University’s total reported holdings.The report also suggests that Harvard is shuffling its other equity holdings, with over half of the investments listed on the previous quarter’s filing sold off. Notable new equity investments include $9.7 million worth of shares in Rupert Murdoch??s media giant News Corp.; $16 million in China Mobile, the world’s biggest wireless-phone carrier; $13 million in Teva Pharmaceutical, the world’s largest generic drug maker; and $3.5 million in Sprint Nextel Corp.The increasing emphasis on emerging market equity has likely helped hedge...
When media tycoon Rupert Murdoch gained enough support to acquire The Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones this summer, the media speculated frantically over what the move would mean for the venerable newspaper. Was the acquisition one more step towards Murdoch??s eventual media monopoly? Would the conservative mogul destroy The Journal’s objectivity? Would the acquisition spell the end of The Journal as we know it? We find much of this hype is ill-reasoned. Murdoch is at heart a businessman and as The Journal’s owner, he will...
Murdoch chose to, as he said, “agree with the American public.” But what he actually meant was that he chose to decide for the American public. And by releasing her own contrite statement shortly thereafter, Regan only served to support Murdoch??s barefaced suppression of her project...
...would think that Rupert Murdoch??s blatant censorship would be lambasted in the media, but surprisingly, it is Judith Regan who has received the punishment. After Murdoch??s public statement that the project was “ill considered,” Regan released her own statement entitled, “Why I Did It.” In it, she identifies herself as a victim of domestic abuse and attempts to justify her decision to publish the book...