For anyone out there thinking News Corp is innocent, we just need to look back to 2009: News Corporation admitted at a trial in 2009 that computers at its U.S. marketing division, News America Marketing, hacked into the secure website of a rival U.S.-based company 11 times, according to Bloomberg. The FBI is currently investigating […]
U.S. shareholders of News Corp are not happy at all over the Murdoch empires handling of the phone hacking scandal. Shareholders called it “inconceivable” that directors were not aware sooner of the questionable news practices that led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid, given that news of the hackings first surfaced […]
Over the weekend someone hacked a Fox News twitter feed and made some malicious posts: A series of alarming Twitter posts about President Obama appeared on Fox News’s Twitter account for political news early Monday morning, and the Web site for the cable television network said it was a victim of hacking. The Twitter account, […]
It all started early in this week. On the front page of Drudge was a big story saying that President Obama’s India trip would cost $200 million per day. By the next day it was being pushed by the GOP: However, instead of answering that question, Bachmann wanted to talk about President Obama’s upcoming trip […]
A story appearing in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal today saying that fast food giant McDonalds is planning on dropping it’s health care coverage for employees because of requirements tied to the new health care bill: While many restaurants don’t offer health coverage, McDonald’s provides mini-med plans for workers at 10,500 U.S. locations, most […]
Well this is certainly going to leave some tea baggers in tears: FoxNews commentator Sean Hannity has cancelled his appearance and broadcast at a Tea Party rally at Fifth Third Arena. Hannity planned to tape his television show from the event, which starts at 6 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati. Organizers of the rally […]
Looks like the network news is in some trouble: “I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter […]
Image by Eric Schmidt / Google via CrunchBase Eric Schmidt, the head cheese of Google, has written a lengthy article appearing in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal. In the piece Schmidt not only clarifies the distortions Murdoch has been laying out these past few weeks, but also what Google is doing to help the […]
It sure looks that way: Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced. The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages. Under the First Click Free programme, […]
According to a report in the Financial Times, Microsoft has approached News Corp. about de-listing their sites from Google, which would be an apparent escalation in the search engine wars. It appears that Microsoft isn’t limiting this to just News Corp either. It’s reported that they are approaching numerous online publishers and offering to pay […]