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Media Crack
Honduran President Just Sitting Around Hoping a Reporter Will Visit
In your Friday-like Thursday media column: Howard Kurtz types many words for no good reason, Rupert Murdoch denies wanting to own the NYT, the WaPo can't stop distancing itself from that sellout email, and journalism is practiced in Honduras. More »
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Comment by marinaorangina: why don't you call him the DE FACTO president of honduras? not elected, not democratic.... geez, gawker... more » | Other threads
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evil magazines
Little Mag That Could (Help Lead Us to War) Sold
In 1995, Rupert Murdoch founded The Weekly Standard, a right-wing magazine that lost millions of dollars every year. But his new toy is The Wall Street Journal, and so he's sold the Standard to another rich conservative. More »
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By PareeneComment by TouchedByAnOctopus: Does anybody else ever see "Auschwitz" when they read the name Anschutz? Or do I have some sort of issue? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Go to J-School, Learn Business, Have Regrets
In your sun-dappled Wednesday media column: Newspapers crumble like so many sandcastles at high tide, Rupert Murdoch's still rich, Choire has a contest, and J-school is changing. Not enough: More »
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Comment by MinervaAutolycus: Everyone I knew with their fancy Columbia master's degrees in journalism are just as unemployed as I was with my... 5 Responses | Other threads
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brooklyn paper
Murdoch Buys Brooklyn Paper
Why is Rupert Murdoch buying the Brooklyn Paper, as the New York Observer reports today? Does Rupert Murdoch even know that he's buying the Brooklyn Paper? More »
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By John CookComment by Almostbanned: Oh man, this is so awesome. He should buy the company that makes PBR too. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Wisconsin Football Dads Think Reporting is Illegal
In your muddy Thursday media column: the grownup version of 'Jocks vs. School Newspaper Nerds,' a blogger passes away, everything is too sexy, and rumors of magazine troubles: More »
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Comment by econdave: You mean a face like that doesn't sell magazines? Shocker! 6 Responses | Other threads
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media wars
News Corp's Revenge on Michael Wolff
Bad: Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff is rumored to be having an affair with his younger employee. Far worse, for Wolff: this gives News Corp (and others) a chance to get back at him. More »
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Comment by Dickdogfood: For all his specious twattery, Michael Wolff is at least one-half the poundage of Delonas himself. Does the dude have... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Life-Threatening Hemorrhages at Newspapers as Usual
In your chunky Wednesday media column: awful bad terrible newspaper news (and suggestions!), Hallmark dies politely, Rupert Murdoch's deadly newspaper addiction may be getting worse, and much more! More »
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Comment by miss_msry: Anytime the San Antonio News has a layoff, a Hearst gets a new Bentley. 3 Responses | Other threads
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new york post
Sharpton Demands More Than a Nod From Rupert Murdoch
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch himself, the big guy, took the time to sign off on an uncommonly civil apology for the New York Post's racist cartoon. But Al Sharpton is still demanding actual actions. Whoa now! More »
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Comment by AvenueOfTheStrongest: Not that I want to defend the Post or Murdoch, but it does seem like the cartoon was misinterpreted. It's... 6 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Comparisonalism: NYT vs. WSJ on Peter Chernin
Peter Chernin stepped down as Rupert Murdoch's #2 man at News Corp yesterday; now the stories hit, complete with the attendant flackery. Would a News Corp-owned paper report it differently? Let's see! More »
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Comment by GORDONGARTRELLE: When you talk to the paper *and you own the paper* your side gets better coverage. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting... more » | Other threads
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apologies
Rupert Murdoch: I'm Sorry My Paper Is So Racist
Sean Delonas' New York Post cartoon said, essentially, "Screw you, monkeys." The Post itself said, "Screw you if you didn't like it." But Rupert Murdoch—their boss—is suddenly being polite! Did Rev. Al win? More »
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Comment by Nick Denton: Yeah, yeah, the cartoon was crude and thoughtless. But that never bothered Murdoch in the past. Nor is the famously no-nonsense... 4 Responses | Other threads
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news corp
Rupert Murdoch's Newspaper Disease
Rupert Murdoch is fundamentally a newspaper man. That's how he built News Corp. into a world-strangling media conglomerate. But will his stubborn soft spot for papers be the thing that brings the company down? More »
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Comment by GuyBitchy: No, the point is he doesn't care about losing money on the propaganda rags, and never will, because the influence-peddling/reality-warping... 5 Responses | Other threads
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news corp
Rupert Murdoch is Having a Hard Time
Stock downgrades. Acquisitions that didn't pan out. Businesses leaking cash. Layoffs. And a whole lot of pessimism about the future. Is Rupert Murdoch losing his magic, wrinkly touch? More »
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Comment by What I Meant Was...: Karma is a bitch. I hope his wife is too. Jagoff like him, I don't wish death on them, I just... 6 Responses | Other threads
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My Lord
Freedom Fighter Conrad Black Calls Michael Wolff A Shitty Writer
Former newspaper mogul and current jailed columnist Conrad Black says that Michael Wolff's book about Rupert Murdoch was all wrong, and furthermore, that Conrad Black is a heroic innocent man: More »
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Comment by IHateWhatYouHaveOn: Being and Nothingness? Is he Sartre now? 3 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Caroline Kennedy May Want to Reconsider This Senate Thing
Caroline Kennedy, do you seriously want to be a Senator? Don't you know people are going to start asking uncomfortable questions about, say, your marriage?
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By PareeneComment by ♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: did anyone else notice that the mics and the podium make a not-so-smiley on the back of that blazer? =| 2 Responses | Other threads
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media
The Media Companies With The Best Job Security
Just about every media company, from us (small) to Time Inc. (big) to many others of varying sizes, shapes, and predilections have been laying people off lately. Because everything is terrible, especially the prospects of media employment! Still, we don't want to be perceived as negative. So we've assembled a roundup of the major media companies that haven't had any big layoffs throughout this new depression, and analyzed why they've been so fortunate. Praise them: More »
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Comment by Mike_Jahn: I was once offered the job editing Screw. I turned it down, even though it came with amazing benefits ("the... 8 Responses | Other threads
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media
Rupert Murdoch's Gross-Out Gay Sex Joke
Media critic Michael Wolff's new book, The Man Who Owns the News, is excerpted in the London Guardian today. But it glosses over the details of a joke in particularly poor taste that the reptilian Newscorp billionaire told his Sun tabloid editor Rebekah Wade—who was was arrested a few years back for assaulting her supposed "hard man" British actor husband—after "a few drinks in a posh London restaurant," about gay sex. "Seeing [Wall Street Journal publisher Robert] Thomson arrive, Murdoch whispered: "For God's sake, don't tell Robert what I said. He's a gentrified man ... very clever," it reads. The actual joke, as it appears in the book, comes after the jump.
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shouting heads
Bright Futures for Universally Despised Cable News People
Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews are both famous cable news shouty persons, yes, but beyond that how much do they have in common? Both cling to a Northeastern Working-Class Catholicism that colors their broadcast personae even though they've both been rich and famous long enough to leave most of the lessons behind besides the strict moralism. But Matthews is an old Democrat working for liberal-leaning MSNBC, and O'Reilly is a culture war conservative with GOP in-house propaganda machine Fox. One more thing they share: they're not particularly liked by their peers! Matthews is seen as an overenthusiastic, affection-starved dog, at least if last April's devastating Times Magazine profile is to be believed. O'Reilly is just seen as a dick, if Michael Wolff is to be believed. More »
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By PareeneComment by American Dreamer, Again, Some More: the gentleman on the right in the photograph that accompanies this post has a profile on millionairematchmaker.com his profile indicates that... 13 Responses | Other threads
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newspapers
Rupert Murdoch's Two-Way Assault On The NYT
The financial reports of the New York Times Co. yesterday were predictably awful. Print ad revenue was cratering even before the stock market collapsed, so it's hard to see any turnaround in the near future. And as if the economy itself isn't giving the Times enough problems, they're also dealing with Rupert Murdoch trying to crush them, advertising-wise, in a pincer grip; the Wall Street Journal is falling on their head, and the New York Post is coming right up their ass. More »
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Comment by Weegee's bored: The mistake many people make regarding the New York Times is to treat it as if was merely a newspaper.... 7 Responses | Other threads
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ted turner
Why Rupert Murdoch Had Ted Turner Tailed
Had Ted Turner's old rival Rupert Murdoch just issued an "autobiography" written by a former lieutenant, as Ted Turner has, one suspects it would not have been embraced so eagerly by sympathetic journalists at 60 Minutes, the Times, the Wall Street Journal and even AP, which meditated whimsically on the CNN founder's chapter titles. Maybe that's because the News Corporation chairman still enjoys the blood sport of media feuds in his old age, coordinating multi-outlet attacks on relative small fry like Keith Olbermann, while Turner is in the business of moving on — and making plenty of media friends in the process. He has forgiven Murdoch for what he suspects was the hiring of private investigators to prove him insane in the 1980s, as he explains in the attached 60 Minutes clip, and put behind him the loss of $7 billion, a devastating divorceand a bad prescription for Lithium. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BookishLookish: Did anyone else read Prisoner of X just for the dirt on Turner and Jane and the strap-on? 2 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Does Rupert Murdoch Wish The Post Had Endorsed Obama?
Has Rupert Murdoch made a terrible miscalculation? Michael Wolff thinks so! Wolff, Murdoch's newest biographer, says that the New York Post's uncharacteristically fawning Obama-centric cover today is Murdoch's way of apologizing to the future president (Obama) for the Post's endorsement of McCain. In fact, it's been widely rumored for months that Murdoch wanted the Post to endorse Obama. So what's going on here? More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: OT, but does anyone know why there has been a consistent police presence in front of the Post/FOX offices on... 4 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's Strange Kids
Vanity Fair has a new excerpt from professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch already said publicly that the book is flawed, but his problems with it seemed to center on how some of his business relationships are portrayed. The excerpt today, disappointingly, focuses on Murdoch's family life, and some of it is predictable. Friction between the new wife and the old wife and the kids from the old wife! Drama about succession! The only real interesting parts come when Wolff starts riffing on Murdoch'sgreedyambitious kids and their Oedipal tendencies: More »
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Comment by BadUncle: James was a puppetry major at Harvard, specializing in found objects. Which I find weirdly appropriate for a Murdoch. ... 4 Responses | Other threads
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michael wolff
Michael Wolff: Murdoch Just Embarrassed, Tina Brown Just A Hack
Oh professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff, is there any power to which you will not speak the truth, or at least some tough-sounding simulacrum thereof? No, there is not. News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch preemptively slammed Vanity Fair writer Wolff's upcoming biography of him, in a tone of indeterminate sincerity. Now Wolff has responded, telling the Observer that Rupert's just "a little embarrassed" about what he let slip, and what he calls are errors are really just "an internal political thing." That's much nicer than what he had to say about former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's new Daily Beast: More »
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Comment by UnreliableNarrator: Gawker media covering the Observer's midea coverage of Michael Wolff's media coverage of Daily Beast, itself a media outlet. So... 2 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out At Crafty Biographer
If it wasn't inevitable from the get-go that Rupert Murdoch would, via tentacles that touch every distribution channel and medium, obtain an advance copy of Michael Wolff's biography of him, it certainly became so when the book landed in the hands of the News Corporation chairman's son-in-law Matthew Freud. Freud got it from a London newspaper negotiating serialization rights, Murdoch got it from Freud, and Wolff soon heard from Murdoch, the Times reported this morning: "[The book] contains some extremely damaging misstatements of fact," he emailed, thus playing into Wolff's hands, as he seems to have done from the beginning. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Monte Wooley: Oh please! Murdoch isn't stupid. He owns Wolff's ball is is just trying to sell books by manipulating people--and it's... 2 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Fickle Rupert Murdoch Gets Cozy With Palin
Rupert Murdoch seems to have transferred his politician crush from Barack Obama to Sarah Palin. His tentative support for Palin (and her obscure running mate) on the financial meltdown tonight evolved into a "quite chummy" run-in at a charity gala for the Manhattan media elites Palin claims not to care about. Murdoch gave Palin a pat on the back and said "thank you very much" as Palin left the gala, while Palin wore the "radiant smile" of not caring, according to a media pool report summarized by Politico. And to think that just four months ago Murdoch called Obama a "rock star." What happened? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by blix: That pose makes him look like he should be on a ventriliquist's lap. 1 Responses | Other threads
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the panic of '08
Rupert Murdoch Thinks Obama is 'Naive' on Economy, But Loves Genius Sarah Palin
Media gargoyle Rupert Murdoch is savvy enough to run News Corp.—one of earth's premiere evil empires—like one of your more aggressive 19th Century robber barons, and he's savvy enough to pretend that he's in favor of government oversight when that's the thing that obscenely rich people have to say. Despite the fact that Murdoch hates any kind of regulation almost as much as he hates sunlight, he went on his zero-credibility Fox Business Network network to half-heartedly support horror-eyed Veep hopeful Sarah Palin's equally half-hearted calls for increased government regulation of the nation's financial institutions. “I think they have been sending out different signals, but I think what she says is right," he said. "Clearly, there has to be some more regulation, but we have to be careful what that is. It could make things a lot worse. The more you get the politicians in that don't know the first thing about banking, even less than me, and God knows what might come out of it.” As for Barack Obama's calls for regulation? Well, he's just being silly. More »
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Comment by eyekantspel: What people don't recognize is the "card checks" issue. The Employee Free Choice Act has already passed the House, and... 4 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Does Rupert Murdoch Want To Buy The New York Times?
"Whoever wrote that crap, it's nonsense," Murdoch said. "I'm not interested. We're not interested in buying any more newspapers." [Politico]
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Comment by MrInBetween: And Rupe knows nonsensical crap when he publishes, er, sees it. more » | Other threads
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wall street journal
WSJ Misidentifies Canada. Twice.
This is what happens when you let an Australian-born media mogul buy an American newspaper and import his chief editor from Britain: Suddenly no one on staff can correctly identify the country to the north (for the record, it's "Canada" — just "Canada"). And to think we actually believed Robert Thomson would make the Wall Street Journal more globalist! [WSJ]
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By Ryan TateComment by BinkysDream: New Canada turned out to be a horrible marketing mistake. 10 Responses | Other threads
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media
Rupert Murdoch's Genetic Destiny Revealed
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! Tongue-rolling is a genetic trait, but one can't help wonder if Cooper has had some practice. He apparently shows his skills only to certain, uh, special friends, like fellow closeted media personality Barry Diller, who, no joke, compared tongue technique with Cooper at a special retreat in Idaho. Some Google people were there, and the next thing you know, the tonguing had resulted in a big genetic-testing soiree in New York! Here's what Ivanka Trump and Rupert Murdoch said about their DNA at the party:
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By Ryan TateComment by Monkeyrash: There's a tongue technique retreat in Idaho? Shouldn't all men know about this? 13 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Rupert Murdoch, Bleeding Heart
If you're even remotely curious about oft-vilified media mogul Rupert Murdoch or his News Corporation empire, there are plenty of gems to pluck from Esquire's lengthy interview with the mogul. There is, for example, Murdoch's baldfaced assertion that Fox News Channel is "very, very fair;" his wild accusation that Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger tried to bar the hiring of white males for five years; and the mild rebuke that Fox host Bill O'Reilly "shouldn't be so sensitive" to Keith Olbermann's attacks. The biggest takeaway, though, is that Murdoch is softening in his old age, despite a punishing work regimen. The quotes in the Esquire piece reinforce the idea, floated by Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair earlier this month, of this change in Murdoch toward the "magnanimous" and "further nuanced:" More »
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By Ryan TateComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Murdoch is no fool. I don't think he's partisan, either. He wants to be, and remain, a kingmaker. Let's... 2 Responses | Other threads
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fox news
Fox News' Obama Power Play
Liberal peacenik Barack Obama's top secret sit-down meeting with Fox News ahead of the election was revealed in Vanity Fair this week by Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's chosen biographer. So Fox News overlord Roger Ailes decided to go on the record today about all the various machinations at the shadowy back room confab. Did Ailes really have a "cordial" conversation with Obama, as he claims? Or was it actually a "frank discussion," as Obama's people claim? Read the tea leaves before Barack appears on Bill O'Reilly's show tomorrow: More »
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Comment by Meeg: And doesn't Rupert Murdoch actually support Obama? (At any rate, he said he thinks he's going to win). I know... 1 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Softer Murdoch Eyes Times
It should really come as no surprise that News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch wants to be respected by the limo liberals who (officially) disdain his politics and tactics. That's why he paid so dearly for the Wall Street Journal, and was proud for having done so, right? But no one really thought age and young wife Wendi Deng would gentrify Murdoch's barbarian soul to such an extent that he now spins fantasies about buying the Times from one side of his mouth while betraying his conservative shock troops at Fox News Channel out of the other. Murdoch's brash past is becoming an embarrassment to him as his portfolio becomes more respectable, at least according to Michael Wolff, who excerpted his sanctioned Murdoch biography in the October Vanity Fair. And yet the Aussie can't help but revert to his old ways, like when he told Wolff that Muslims are, as a group, inbred: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Private Hangnail: ...he was propounding the genetic theory that the basic problem of the Muslim people was that they married their cousins.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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michael wolff
Wolff Is Coming
Now's the time to pre-order your copy of Vanity Fair word-writer and snazzy dresser Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch! The book will be out in February of next year. A publisher has already said "I think the subject and the author were born to be put together." Uh, good? "Written in the irresistible stye that only an award-winning columnist for Vanity Fair can deliver," promises the promo. Indubitably! [pic via NYM]
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Comment by Stable_Abel: I know a fellow who used to work for Wolff New Media. In 1996, Wolff had a company meeting where... more » | Other threads
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media
Rupert Murdoch's Redeeming Quality
Moguls—relatively unmoderated by outside shareholders, capricious, dictatorial and long-tenured to the point of senility—do have one redeeming virtue. They're distinct individuals who can afford occasionally to tell the truth, while hired managers stick to mealy-mouthed platitudes. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by ThereMustBeAPony: (d'oh) One sip of ... VODKA ... more » | Other threads
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hulu
Free Porn Is Media Giants' Online "Game Changer"
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 exploited the draw of sexual content, at UK newspaper The Sun (with its page three girls), on TV network Fox and elsewhere. And so perhaps it should have been clear from the get-go what Murdoch's number two Peter Chernin was wrong when he declared that Hulu was going to be "a game changer for Internet video... for the first time, consumers will get what they want." Actually, Hulu is bootstrapping itself the same way the entire rest of the internet did: via porn! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Migrant Blogger: Yeah, it will be a game-changer. Mainstream media will follow porn into "non-profit" land. more » | Other threads
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wall street journal
Wall Street Journal Tarting Up And Slimming Down
The Wall Street Journal's new managing editor Robert Thomson took another step toward remaking the paper in the image of his former employer the Financial Times, hiking the cover price 50 cents to match the FT at $2 per copy. But another directive, reported by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio, seems to have been borrowed from the Journal's News Corp. sister, the Post: More » -
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Post And Daily News To Share Sheets
After bitter tabloid rivals the Post and Daily News both lost their bidding war for Newsday to bumbling Long Island cable concern Cablevision, discussion centered on which tab would be first to strike some kind of cost-cutting partnership with Cablevision. As it turns out, the Post and Daily News may just cut Cablevision out of the loop entirely — the Times tonight substantiates prior rumors the two papers will partner. The tabloids are in preliminary but "committed" discussions to share printing, distribution, sales and other functions, stopping short of a full Joint Operating Agreement. If only it were all so easy as simply signing off on such a deal. More » -
media
A Guide To The Media Methuselahs
"I don't want to die. I love what I'm doing," said Viacom chief Sumner Redstone on CNBC yesterday. My, what a positive and also extremely sad quote! Coming from an old, old man like Redstone, it's more of a last-ditch prayer to Father Time than a peppy statement of on-the-job satisfaction. After the jump, a complete guide to the top five elderly figures in media moguldom. They're a cast that could end up having spent decades in power—probably because the younger counterparts who should be overtaking them decided to go into the tech industry on the West Coast instead (except Nick Denton). May these old men all live, um, a lot longer: More »
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irena briganti
Irena Briganti, The Most Vindictive Flack In The Media World
So, David Carr has gone and pulled the curtain back a bit on Fox PR—the single most vicious PR operation in all the media. Good for him. So let's do our part by zeroing in on the one flack who is the face of Fox's feared, vengeful media relations operation. Her name is Irena Briganti. She's the female alter ego and mouthpiece of Fox boss Roger Ailes (pictured). She's been described as bubbly and charming in person. But she's the one holding the bloody hatchet that Fox regularly brings down right on reporters' heads. Here's everything you need to know about the scariest flack in mediadom:
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books
Rupert Murdoch Inspires Yet Another Evil Mogul
A deliciously bitter ex-NYT reporter named John Darnton, who worked at the paper for more than 30 years, has a book coming out called Black and White and Dead All Over, which is murder mystery set at a thinly veiled version of the Times. The terribly-titled (but maybe well-written!) volume features a bunch of obvious allusions to real Times people, including a standards editor who gets murdered (take that, standards). Droopy-faced News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch figures prominently as an ominous character named "Lester Moloch." But this isn't the first time Murdoch has been flogged in fictional works. Oh no! More » -
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Media Bitchery: The Definitive Bibliography
Think of how easy it might have been to understand Arianna Huffington's bloggy animus toward Tim Russert if there were a book out chronicling all the sordid details of their decade-and-a-half-long secret feud. (There is.) Every gossip-mongering gadabout should know the full backstory on every spat, falling out, and long-running mutual antagonism in media. Below are the volumes no shelf should be without.
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