Yesterday NewsCorp unveiled their new subscription based iPhone app. This was apparently huge news for the people at FOX: But at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, while MSNBC and CNN ran breaking news alerts and reported live from Cairo, Fox and Fox Business reported live from the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to bring viewers the unveiling […]
Rupert Murdoch is a genius. Genius I tell ya! The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show. Unregistered users of thetimes.co.uk are now “bounced” to a Times+ membership page where they have to register if they want to view […]
Last week Rupert Murdoch said that FOX shouldn’t be promoting the Tea Party. I guess FOX missed that memo. All day FOX has been broadcasting from the Tea Party in D.C. and then tonight you get this: Jessica Brown reports from outside Fifth Third arena, where the Tea Party rally/Sean Hannity show taping will be […]
I had almost forgot about this deal between Google and MySpace, a NewsCorp company. In 2006 the two entered into an agreement. Basically Google would get exclusive search advertising rights in exchange for $900 million over three years. MySpace also had to guarantee a minimum amount of traffic. That was all three years ago and […]
Rupert Murdoch really did open a can of worms when he said he was going to pull all of his content from Google. TechDirt decided to take a look at the hypocrisy that surrounds the media mogul when it comes to using other’s content: As Rupert Murdoch talks about how he wants to cut off […]
There has been a lot of talk today about Murdoch wanting to have Google stop indexing his news sites. I’m not going to go into the piss poor business decision this is, but I do need to highlight this: Mr Murdoch also indicated that he would use legal methods to prevent Google and other search […]
During the entire White House/Fox News feud FOX decided to bolster about their “soaring ratings”. This meme was then picked up by a lot of talking heads in the mainstream media. Media Matters decided to go to the data and see exactly what “soar” meant to FOX: No matter how many times reporters and pundits […]
Good luck with that: Media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch told analysts in a conference call after News Corp released its full-year results that the traditional […]
This seems rather odd: For years Keith Olbermann of MSNBC had savaged his prime-time nemesis Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel and accused Fox of journalistic malpractice almost nightly. Mr. O’Reilly in turn criticized Mr. Olbermann’s bosses and led an exceptional campaign against General Electric, the parent company of MSNBC. It was perhaps the […]
These people are sick and Rupert Murdoch is the enabler to them. Could you imagine the right if someone like Keith Olbermann was saying last year that bin Laden should attack our country again? I can and its not pretty.