Showing posts with label Rupert Murdoch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rupert Murdoch. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

"Fox News’ Coming War On Donald Trump"

"Fox News’ Coming War On Donald Trump"

July 22, 2015 2016 Election , Fox News 0 Comments

The Murdoch/Trump Twitter Feud Which Could Catch Fire

By Salon Staff, July 20, 2015 Salon

Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal have soured on Donald Trump. Now what will Fox News do?

On Saturday, after Trump crossed a line in the eyes of many Republicans with his comments on John McCain’s war record, Rupert Murdoch tweeted that:

That was followed this morning by a scathing Wall Street Journal editorial which argued that:

It came slightly ahead of schedule, but Donald Trump’s inevitable self-immolation arrived on the weekend when he assailed John McCain’s war record. The question now is how long his political and media apologists on the right will keep pretending he’s a serious candidate.

The piece also called out conservative magazine editors — Bill Kristol, we’d assume — for enabling Trump and his rise to the top of the GOP polls. (It did not mention a certain conservative cable news network which has also helped enable Trump.)

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

No surprise

January 24, 2015 American Sniper , Hollywood 0 Comments
Rupert Murdoch Rips 'Hollywood Leftists' Over 'American Sniper'

Hollywood Reporter, Jan. 23, 2015

Murdoch wrote on Twitter, "Hollywood leftists trash American Hero, show how completely out of touch they are with America. Bravo Clint Eastwood!" He added, clarifying, "Yes, American Sniper!"

On Monday, Rogen tweeted that American Sniper "kind of reminds" him of the Nazi propaganda film about a sniper showing near the end of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. He later clarified that tweet, writing that he liked American Sniper and that he wasn't comparing the two, just saying one reminded him of the other.

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Friday, July 18, 2014

--T-W to reject offer--so far...

July 18, 2014 (FOXA) , Rupert Murdoch 0 Comments
Murdoch Open To Bid Above $75 Billion For Time Warner  

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By Jeffrey McCracken, Jul. 16, 2016, Bloomberg.org

Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (FOXA) is willing to pay more than $75 billion for Time Warner Inc. (TWX), according to people with knowledge of the matter, a sign Rupert Murdoch is undeterred after being rebuffed in an initial offer for the media company. Time Warner shares soared.

Fox’s willingness to raise its offer higher than $85 a share is contingent on Time Warner engaging in talks and opening its books to Fox, according to one of the people, who said Murdoch hasn’t been directly involved in discussions. A deal would reshape the media industry by giving the TV-and-film companies bargaining power in negotiations with cable operators such as Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc., which are in the process of their own merger.

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

The Atlantic: "Malaysia 370: Landing Strips, Cell Phones, and More-- Has Plane Landed At A Secret Site? Probably Not; Here's Why"

The Atlantic: "Malaysia 370: Landing Strips, Cell Phones, and More-- Has Plane Landed At A Secret Site? Probably Not; Here's Why"

March 15, 2014 China , Derek Thompson 1 Comments
By James Fallows
The ongoing Malaysia 370 investigation coincides with my being in transit, with family, and away from the Internet most of each day. (Writing this from the passenger seat of a car on a four-hour drive, hoping that my TMobile hotspot via Samsung Galaxy III holds up.) Here is a quick update on some of the developments since the inflight dispatch yesterday:

1) Derek Thompson sums up recent news for the Atlantic. You can see inhere.

2) Rupert Murdoch loses his mind. You can see it here. What's most amazing about the response below is that it happened before anything was known about the flight -- whether it had blown up, ditched in the sea, been hijacked, landed safely by mistake somewhere, etc.
Source:  The Atlantic / Twitter
It's possible that the jihadist interpretation will turn out to be true. But the word "confirms," before anyone knew (or yet knows) what happened to the flight, from perhaps the single most powerful "journalistic" figure in the world is ... well, it "confirms" a lot of judgments about Murdoch.

3) What about those cellphones?  We all know that cellphones can minutely track our movements as we walk or bike through cities or drive through the countryside. So why aren't they being used to track this flight?

One answer: We don't know whether all the phones were seized and disabled, if this was a hijacking. Another: planes can track us in our normal life because we're operating right at ground level, and in places designed to offer phone coverage. At airliner-flight levels, 35,000 feet in the case of this plane, and at airliner speeds, there usually is no coverage. (Try to make a call from 30,000+ feet on your next cross-country flight.) At any altitude there is usually no coverage over open water or in remote, jungle, mountain, or desert areas, which describes most of the path of this flight. More in a good AP explainer here. 

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