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Merged News Corp. execs step aside | U.S. begins investigation | Will Fox News be abandoned?

stokes234 said:
On topic, if any evidence of phone hacking of 9/11 victims on behalf of news corporation is found, I can't imagine fox surviving it. What would be great is if the public starts seeing the overall corporation as the bad guy, rather than individual papers. A cornerstone of partisan right-wing media would crumble. Of course, there is always going to be a market for those views, and plenty of the replacements would have the same political themes, but murdoch always comes across as willing to sacrifice profit in favour of his right-wing political agenda, and with any luck this won't be a trait of the replacements.
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It is exactly opposite. He is not pushing his more moderate agenda on all of his media, which would compromise his profits. The partisan media and tabloid media are most profitable at the moment. Murdoch actually used the British tabloid profits to boost the Times that was not doing profits. Rubert Murdoch is not pushing everybody on Fox or in his media to follow his line, like being pro - climate change, pro - amnesty

http://www.woopidoo.com/business_quotes/authors/rupert-murdoch/quotes.htm

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/20...pert-murdoch-push-for-immigration-reform.html

He even had a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/09/politics/main1600694.shtml
Also his British media supported Labour in several elections

So he is probably more moderate than anybody in MSNBC primetime lineup. Though the most moderate there is Chris "Thrill going up my leg" Matthews so it really isn't achievement.

In early 2008, CNN was leading MSNBC by 50% in ratings. Then the more MSNBC started to bend over to left, err lean forward, the more their ratings started to go up. In this year CNN temporarily regained it's 2nd position after Fox, because they had better coverage over Japan's tsunami and aftermath than MSNBC, but now MSNBC generally has 10-20% higher ratings than CNN. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are making much more money than any centrist talking heads in media, so is probably Rachel Maddow, and Keith Olbermann before his firing. What is the moderate equivalent of Huffington Post? There is none. Partisanship pays.
 
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Murdoch is not working all of his scams for the maximum profit. He and Roger Ailes have an aggenda that requires sponsoring useless scum like Beck and the fat deaf eunuch to sway public opinion their way. Maybe they will benefit, long-term, from lower tax rates and less regulation, but they seem to do much of what they do specificly to advance a radical right wing aggenda.

The Rushblob lost money for his sponsors for the first several years, but he did rouse the sleeping morons to believe that they had the right to run America.

Some men would rather have the ability to work their will on society than to all the money they could grab.

It is, of course, possible to become rich being actively evil. Murdoch is a good example.
 
Teemu said:
So he is probably more moderate than anybody in MSNBC primetime lineup. Though the most moderate there is Chris "Thrill going up my leg" Matthews so it really isn't achievement.
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Well, you left out the part where he was on the Cato Institute board of directors, various donations to right-wing groups, as well as the wholesale character defamation by his papers of anyone in the UK who even vaguely suggests a left-wing political position in the news... but i'll grant you the climate change point, that is suprising.
 
USEagle13 said:
Yeah i saw that whistle blower is dead too. I smell Conspiracy all over this.
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There's no smilie, so I'll just cover the bases by pointing out that it could be (and most likely is) just a coincidence.

What's far more disturbing to me is the likelihood that this will not effect Fox News' credibility with most of its core audience.
 
Phone hacking: Murdochs and Brooks set to face MPs' questions

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, his son James Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks, until a week ago the three most powerful figures in British media, will on Tuesday face an unprecedented three hours of questions over the extent to which they knew, approved or subsequently covered up widespread phone hacking at News International.
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I would think that the FBI officers from the aforementioned US investigation into September 11th victim phone hacking will get updated info from this. Or possibly even have an officer involved.
 
Even if Fox News somehow got knocked out of business because of this, and I don't think they will, some equivalent network would spring up to replace them.
 
USEagle13 said:
Yeah i saw that whistle blower is dead too. I smell Conspiracy all over this.
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It might be interesting to see a corporation charged with Aggravated Murder One. I like the idea of giving Fox Goons the death penaltyy.
 
Man attempts to attack Rupert Murdoch while testifying in Parliament. His 42 yo wife takes out the attacker with a face punch, as his son remains seated.

No link yet, but video will be coming soon.

eta: well the LA times has a link now

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...e-to-defend-themselves-before-parliament.html

The crowd gasped, and his son James Murdoch -- who was sitting next to him at the witness table -- leaped to his father's defense. Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, who was sitting behind the aging mogul, jumped up and reached out to slap the offender.
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I disagree with this.
 
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Analysts: FCC likely won't strip News Corp.

By ELIZA KRIGMAN | 7/19/11 1:42 PM EDT

As the News Corp. hacking scandal continues to widen, the odds of the FCC moving to strip media giant of its American broadcast licenses are slim — but not nil —several telecom analysts concluded Monday.

Industry observers have been scrambling to assess how much collateral damage may ensue from the British episode that has already resulted in the closing of News of the World and the downfall of two top News Corp. executives.

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But the analysts maintain that unless investigations reveal possibly illegal conduct in the U.S., Murdoch will remain out of reach for the commission.

“If alleged bribery and phone tapping are confined to the U.K., we believe the likelihood of U.S. broadcast licenses being revoked or not renewed is very low,” telecommunications analysts Rebecca Arbogast and David Kaut of the investment firm Stifel Nicolaus wrote in a note to clients Monday.

MF Global industry analyst Paul Gallant came to a similar conclusion.

“Based on our preliminary assessment of the law and the politics around News Corp. situation, we think the chances of the FCC stripping News Corp. of its U.S. broadcast TV licenses are relatively low,” Gallant wrote in a note also distributed Monday.

Still, the negative ramifications for the American arm of Murdoch’s media empire could amplify based on what an FBI investigation uncovers, the analysts said.

“It would be a grave problem if the company is found in the United States to have committed a massive coverup of misconduct or questionable links with law enforcement and politicians that is emerging in the U.K.,” Arbogast and Kaut wrote.

One possibility, Gallant suggests, is that News Corp. voluntarily sells off its licenses. If an investigation results in convictions through the American legal system, News Corp. may prefer to sell its licenses than risk not having them be renewed.

Thus far, FCC commissioners have indicated that there isn’t just cause for the agency to investigate whether News Corp. is still fit to hold its licenses.

If the commission did act, its authority would come from a provision in the Communications Act that stipulates vague character requirements for spectrum license holders.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59372.html
 
Newscorp may be involved in a murder. If the whistle blower was actually killed, rather than having committed suicide while depressed, it is clearly aggravated first degree murder, and thus subject to the death penalty. The corporation could then be dissolved and all assets siezed by the government.

(Begin countdown for the start of a movement among Republicons to overturn the idiotic notion of corporate personhood.)
 
leftysergeant said:
It might be interesting to see a corporation charged with Aggravated Murder One. I like the idea of giving Fox Goons the death penaltyy.
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You approve of killing people because you disagree with their politics?

Nice... good job standing up for the constitution there, Lefty.

Not like you ever swore an oath to uphold and defend it or anything...
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
You approve of killing people because you disagree with their politics?

Nice... good job standing up for the constitution there, Lefty.

Not like you ever swore an oath to uphold and defend it or anything...
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I should have thought that a rational person would conclude that I meant that the corporation would be siezed and liquidated, never to exist again, never to pay a single shareholder anything, never to control a license. Gone.

Murdoch and Ailes should get the needle, though.
 
leftysergeant said:
I should have thought that a rational person would conclude that I meant that the corporation would be siezed and liquidated, never to exist again, never to pay a single shareholder anything, never to control a license. Gone.

Murdoch and Ailes should get the needle, though.
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So you don't want to kill everyone you disagree with, you just want to kill two people you disagree with.

Got it, thanks.
 
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