“Fair and balanced” sure has an interesting meaning when it comes to Fox News. We’re all used to their highly partisan reporting, but this story takes the political involvement of the network to a whole new level. Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice […]
An article currently appearing on Fox 19 in Cincinnati asks if the media is fairly covering the Ruppert Murdoch hacking scandal. After giving a vague background on the story, they go to their analysis: In the great scheme of things,”News of the World” is pretty immaterial to News Corp.’s earnings, in the one percent range. […]
We haven’t heard much from the News Corp/Murdoch hacking scandal lately. I think that is all about to change: A former News of the World reporter has alleged that there was a massive cover-up of phone hacking at the paper. Clive Goodman, the former royal reporter jailed for his role in phone hacking, wrote a […]
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 […]
When your parent company is the largest media corporation in the world and in the middle of one of the hugest corporate scandals in history, then blaming the media probably isn’t a good idea, but that’s exactly what happened on Fox yesterday. Bob Dilenschneider of the Dilenschneider Group was on Fox and Friends, trying to […]
According to a tweet from CNBC, Ruppert Murdoch is reportedly considering stepping down as CEO of News Corp. It’s interesting this tweet came on the even of Murdoch’s much anticipated testimony before the U.K. Parliament today. In other News Corp news, Rudy “9/11” Giuliani has decided to throw 9/11 victims under the bus to support […]
It’s looking like Fox could be involved in some phone hacking also: According to former Fox News executive Dan Cooper, whose gripes with his former employer run quite deep after being fired in 1996, Fox News chief Roger Ailes allegedly had him design the so-called “Brain Room” to facilitate counter-intelligence efforts and other “black ops.” […]
I think that is the $1 million dollar question right now: Rupert Murdoch donated $1m to a pro-business lobby in the US months before the group launched a high-profile campaign to alter the anti-bribery law – the same law that could potentially be brought to bear against News Corporation over the phone-hacking scandal. News Corporation […]
We knew it was only a matter of time: Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid. Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that […]
Eliot Spitzer is no stranger to corporate corruption. The former governor and attorney general of New York made it a point to make such cases a priority and he had a very high success rate. Today in Slate, the former governor is now calling for the Department of Justice to prosecute News Corp under the […]