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The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis
Former 'WSJ' Editor Notes Rupert's 'Dark Side'
Former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger was tapped to write News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's profile in Time's "100 Most Influential People" feature. So what does Steiger, who retired from the Journal last year after handing it over to Murdoch—who is evil—think of the media baron? More »
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How satisfying for Rupert Murdoch to sit on the top table at yesterday's dinner to celebrate Time magazine's issue celebrating himself and the other 99 most influential people in the world.
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Rupert Murdoch Finally Gets Two Seats From Power
How satisfying for Rupert Murdoch to sit on the top table at yesterday's dinner to celebrate Time magazine's issue celebrating himself and the other 99 most influential people in the world.
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Woman Angered By Photographer Who Says Her Husband "Looks Well"
[Media mogul/evil person Rupert Murdoch with his wife Wendy Deng at the Time 100 gala last night; image via AP]
monsters
Ruthless press baron Rupert Murdoch has concocted two diabolical schemes to ruin the lives of New York tabloid readers and owners forever. First scheme: Murdoch will raise the price of his New York Post — NO! — to fifty cents, with the extra quarter going directly into a special fund for the eradication of all remaining integrity and decency in American media, starting with the Wall Street Journal, which Murdoch has not yet finished burning to the ground forever. Ha ha, just kidding, the extra quarter will just offset the Post's estimated $50 million per year losses, and you will pay it, because it's not like you can just read Page Six on the internet or something. Scheme the second: is classified. This is a secret scheme. But:
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50-Cent Post Part Of Murdoch's Nightmare Scheme
Ruthless press baron Rupert Murdoch has concocted two diabolical schemes to ruin the lives of New York tabloid readers and owners forever. First scheme: Murdoch will raise the price of his New York Post — NO! — to fifty cents, with the extra quarter going directly into a special fund for the eradication of all remaining integrity and decency in American media, starting with the Wall Street Journal, which Murdoch has not yet finished burning to the ground forever. Ha ha, just kidding, the extra quarter will just offset the Post's estimated $50 million per year losses, and you will pay it, because it's not like you can just read Page Six on the internet or something. Scheme the second: is classified. This is a secret scheme. But:
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journalismism
OMG, I Was Totally On The Uma Thurman Jury, Says WSJ Reporter
There are so many possible stories for the front page of a national business newspaper this morning. The new Democratic primary votes, for example, or the UBS banker detained amid a tax evasion investigation, or the multi-billion-dollar loss at home loan giant Fannie Mae. And The Wall Street Journal made room for some of that today, but it also decided its cover wouldn't be complete without a first-person account of the trial of Uma Thurman's stalker. Reporter Emily Steel was lucky enough to be allowed on the jury in the movie star's case, and as you read her story, you can just see Rupert Murdoch, head of Journal owner News Corp. and frequent presence at the newspaper, rubbing his hands together in glee, his taste for the sensational and drive to broaden the WSJ beyond business both satisfied. More »
fashion
All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli’s Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump.
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Anna Wintour's "Curious" Dress At The Big Ball
All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli’s Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump.
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ominous doings
Murdoch Too Busy Ruining Newspaper to Testify in Sabotage Case
In the late 1990s, employees of Rupert Murdoch's NDS hacked into EchoStar/DISH Network's satellites, or something, and posted secret security codes on the internet, "allowing criminals to counterfeit the security cards used by subscribers to the DISH Network satellite service." Murdoch was reportedly peeved that DISH Network didn't want him to buy them. Now EchoStar is suing News Corp for millions of dollars, and the judge suggests that News Corp will lose if Murdoch doesn't personally take the stand and deny involvement, which he doesn't really want to do. He's a busy man! Just last week he personally moved that weird single-panel cartoon about business from the Wall Street Journal's editorial page to the "Leisure & Arts" section. "Pepper's move could make way for a more Murdochian brand of editorial cartoon, cartoonists said." [ABC]
Obsequious Murdoch Stiffed In China
"After years of pleading, [News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch] finally landed an audience with Jiang Zemin, then China’s party chief, to try to schmooze away the satellite ban... Mr. Murdoch put $60 million into a venture of Mr. Jiang’s son. Mr. Murdoch also relocated his own son James to China. While the elder Mr. Murdoch went on to disparage the Dalai Lama in 1999, his son disparaged the Falun Gong in 2001. The satellite ban stayed in force. Outfoxed!" [Times]
election
Fox News' Pander Orgy With Dems
It's obvious why Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to go on Fox News all of a sudden. They're trying to reach white male swing voters, and those voters tend to watch Fox. But why is the conservative cable news network so eager to cede airtime to these bleeding heart lefties? That would be because of ratings. For some strange reason, Fox News viewers are suddenly very interested in the Democratic primaries, even though they shouldn't care because Republican candidate John McCain has already promised to continue many of the glorious Bush Administration policies they've heard so much about on Fox News. This has led to some, uh, changes: More »
in memoriam
The Death Agony Of America's Biggest Magazine
The death of the quintessential TV listings magazine is a shabby affair. The rumor we floated yesterday—that editor-in-chief Ian Birch and other staff are being laid off—appears indeed to be true. The new owners, Macrovision, is thought only interested in the TV Guide's online and electronic program guides; the print edition is loss-making and may be shut down if a buyer can't be found, according to Deadline Hollywood. The magazine—which could not cope with the proliferation of programming in the 1980s and 1990s and further lost relevance when viewers began to use the program guides supplied by their cable provider—will not be mourned. But let's at least pay some respect to its history. More »
newspapers
Journal Against The Wall
A departing reporter for the Wall Street Journal has delivered an implicit rebuke to Rupert Murdoch's new régime at the paper—and its aversion to long-form journalism. In his farewell note, veteran James Bandler says his former editors "understood that great Journal stories—whether complex corporate probes or powerful narratives—can take weeks, if not months of reporting time." For another defense of the business newspaper's traditions, read the excellent comment by 'medman' in response to yesterday's Gawker article, Civil War At The Wall Street Journal.
Newsday Slipping From Murdoch's Clutches
"Cablevision is preparing a $650 million offer for Newsday, $70 million more than bids by Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer B. Zuckerman... Executives... interested in Newsday said they learned over the last month that printing, trucking and subscription operations were more troubled and inefficient than they knew. Paradoxically, that has persuaded them that the paper was worth more... 'These are problems that can be fixed, so there’s a lot of room for improvement,' one executive said." [Times]
newspapers
Of all the cliques at the Wall Street Journal, the reporters and editors of the newspaper's Money & Investing team were most inclined to accommodate to the new régime put in place by Rupert Murdoch. They're more financially sophisticated than the average Journal reporter, and less precious; the head of the paper's third section is thought friendly with Murdoch aide Gary Ginsberg, and has even been mentioned as a candidate for managing editor; and Money & Investing is widely regarded as the newsiest part of the Journal, in need of less of a re-education than the self-indulgent feature writers of the main paper and the second section, Marketplace. And that's why this week's disastrous pep talk by the Australian media mogul's key lieutenant, Journal publisher Robert Thomson, is so damaging.
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Civil War At The Wall Street Journal
Of all the cliques at the Wall Street Journal, the reporters and editors of the newspaper's Money & Investing team were most inclined to accommodate to the new régime put in place by Rupert Murdoch. They're more financially sophisticated than the average Journal reporter, and less precious; the head of the paper's third section is thought friendly with Murdoch aide Gary Ginsberg, and has even been mentioned as a candidate for managing editor; and Money & Investing is widely regarded as the newsiest part of the Journal, in need of less of a re-education than the self-indulgent feature writers of the main paper and the second section, Marketplace. And that's why this week's disastrous pep talk by the Australian media mogul's key lieutenant, Journal publisher Robert Thomson, is so damaging.
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Naughty Rupert
That largely impotent committee set up to protect the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal has issued a statement. The business newspaper's new owners, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, "failed to meet the letter and the spirit of the agreement" to consult over personnel changes. And?
That largely impotent committee set up to protect the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal has issued a statement. The business newspaper's new owners, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, "failed to meet the letter and the spirit of the agreement" to consult over personnel changes. And?
robert thomson
Murdoch's Man At Journal A Big Ole Softie, Really
The Times profile of Rupert Murdoch's man at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson, reinforces much of what was already known about the newsroom leader. He is good friends with the News Corp. chairman, charming to coworkers, a proven news chief and has responsibilities at the Journal that have long outstripped his title of "publisher." But the Times story adds new information that makes it sound like Thomson will play good cop to Murdoch's bad cop: More »
tabloid wars
Zuckerman to Murdoch: Take Your Monopoly and Suck It.
"Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of The Daily News, believes he can snatch Newsday from Rupert Murdoch without offering a dime more than the $580 million already on the table. Mortimer B. Zuckerman will argue his bid has less potential for regulatory uncertainty." More »
Rupert Murdoch And Robert Thomson
News Corporation tycoon Rupert Murdoch is precisely thirty years older than his lieutenant at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson. And a birthday is far from the only thing they have in common, as shown by this handy list from Intelligencer.
News Corporation tycoon Rupert Murdoch is precisely thirty years older than his lieutenant at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson. And a birthday is far from the only thing they have in common, as shown by this handy list from Intelligencer.
