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 […]
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 […]
Maybe he shouldn’t have spent so much trying to gobble up our media then: Murdoch, who bought The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones & Co in 2007, said online advertising, which most U.S. publishers hope will offset ad revenue declines at their print divisions, will not cover their costs. “People reading […]
Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, has some interesting ties that are really close to McCain: Turns out that Joe Wurzelbacher from the Toledo event is a close relative of Robert Wurzelbacher of Milford, Ohio. Who’s Robert Wurzelbacher? Only Charles Keating’s son-in-law and the former senior vice president of American Continental, the parent company of […]
What is truly amazing on this entire Dubai ports deal is the fact that some of the people defending the deal are the same people who have painted the entire Arab/Muslim world as being terrorists. If we are talking about torture, wire tapping or racial profiling then it is fine to question all of them. […]