Rupert Murdoch

Tories Bleed Support, UK Back in Recession & Levenson Inquiry Wounds… Government

Tories Bleed Support, UK Back in Recession & Levenson Inquiry Wounds… Government

April 25, 2012 7:36 pm
UK Prime Minister David Cameron The Tory Party’s ongoing self-inflicted death of a thousand austerity cuts continued to plague the UK Government as statistics released today...

Posts Tagged ‘Rupert Murdoch’

The Basics on the Latest Murdoch Scandal

by Braden Goyette, ProPublica Yet another scandal is bubbling up at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. On Tuesday, the Murdoch-owned Dow Jones announced that the publisher of The Wall Street Journal’s European edition was resigning, without mentioning why. The next day, The Wall Street Journal reported that the top European exec stepped down after an internal ethics investigation found he had pressured [...]

The Monday Line: Sizzling Summer? 3 Stories Ignored as Washington Self-Immolated

While attention was riveted on the US Congressional debt ceiling stand-off, follow-on stock market implosion and the 1st ever US debt quality downgrade, a number of stories on the near-term horizon could make this coming fall and winter depressingly interesting, as in the Chinese curse: may you live in interesting times. GOP/Tea Party Crazies on [...]

What’s the Deal With News Corp’s Other, US-Based, Hacking Scandal?

by Braden Goyette, ProPublica After testifying before the British Parliament this week, Rupert Murdoch returned to the United States to be greeted with more bad news: The Justice Department is opening up an inquiry into allegations of computer hacking by News Corp’s American advertising wing, News America Marketing. The New York Times’ David Carr revisited News America’s troubled history with [...]

Uncle Sam’s & John Bull’s Crimes Dwarf Murdoch’s Eavesdropping

As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That’s because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch’s editors at The News of The World (NoTW) ever dared attempt. British Prime [...]

Lofty Matters: Murdoch, Committee Hearings and the Truth.

by Felix Columbidae, Human Rights TV Media history has been made today for if anyone would have said this time last year that we would hear Rupert Murdoch explaining himself on public radio (BBC Radio 5) then that person would have been locked away in an asylum. The testimony is going on as I write [...]

It’s FOX’s Night-Mare the F—C—P—A!

With apologies to the Village People, much has been made of Rupert Murdoch’s month-us horribilis over the News of The World mobile phone hacking scandal. Serious questions now arise over whether or not the taint will stain his US holdings, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post or FOX News. Last night’s resignation of Britain’s [...]