- "The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." --Al Franken
- 10 New items including:
- Rush Limbaugh's Vile Rants Are So Bad They're Screwing Other Radio Programs
- Is the FCC Plotting a Giveaway to Rupert Murdoch?
- No More Media for Murdoch
- Investigate Rupert Murdoch
- Phone-hacking scandal hits Murdoch business as investors grow restless
- UK: PM's ex-aide charged in hacking scandal
- UK hacking scandal spreads, 100-plus new claims
- Rupert Murdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta
- UK's Cameron to face media ethics inquiry
- Ex-Cameron aide detained over alleged perjury
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Rush Limbaugh's Vile Rants Are So Bad They're Screwing Other Radio Programs, Digby, Hullabaloo
- Radio host Doug Stephen says Limbaugh has cost him tens of millions of dollars in advertisements.
- Report: Britain needs independent press regulator
Is the FCC Plotting a Giveaway to Rupert Murdoch? Craig Aaron, FreePress
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Jim Fuller
What if I told you the Obama administration's first major post-election policy move was a big, fat gift for Rupert Murdoch?
No More Media for Murdoch, FreePress
- Rupert Murdoch — the guy who’s under investigation in England for phone hacking, influence peddling and bribery — wants to get his mitts on the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. These are the major papers in the nation's second- and third-largest cities (where, incidentally, Murdoch already owns TV stations).
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Investigate Rupert Murdoch, Robert Weissman, Public Citizen
- Now there’s evidence that the most powerful media mogul on earth has — in the words of the British Parliamentary committee that recently declared Murdoch unfit to run a major company — “exhibited willful blindness” while people working for him hacked into private citizens’ phones and bribed police officials.
- Phone-hacking scandal hits Murdoch business as investors grow restless
Phone-hacking scandal hits Murdoch business as investors grow restless, Paul Harris, Jamie Doward, Guardian UK
- Scandal in the UK and a boycott in the US has wealthy News Corp investors restless.
- Storm surrounding News of the World threatens to engulf global empire
- Special Report | The Limbaugh and Murdoch Meltdowns: Week of May 27
- Rupert Murdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta
UK: PM's ex-aide charged in hacking scandal, Raphael Satter, Associated Press / Washington (DC) Post
- British authorities charged an ex-aide to the British prime minister, a former protege of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and six others in the ever-widening phone hacking scandal, accusing them of key roles in a lengthy campaign of illegal espionage.
- UK hacking scandal spreads, 100-plus new claims
- Congress Needs to Investigate News Corp.
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UK hacking scandal spreads, 100-plus new claims, Raphael Satter, Associated Press / Montreal (QC) Gazette
- Police have been widely criticized for their failure to come to grips with the hacking issue when it first emerged nearly seven years ago. Police repeatedly ignored crucial leads and dismissed new evidence, claiming that phone hacking was a limited practice affecting only a handful of people.
- Congress Needs to Investigate News Corp.
- New Arrests in Murdoch Bribery Scandal Raise Question of U.S. Charges
Rupert Murdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta, John Pilger, Truthout
Fairfax senior executive Mark Scott, said, "Smart clever people are not the answer. What you want are people who can execute your strategy and Fairfax's strategy to create editorial to support maximizing revenues from display advertising."
UK's Cameron to face media ethics inquiry, David Stringer, Associated Press / Eureka (CA) Times-Standard
- The British leader will face questioning over his decision to assign Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to make an impartial decision on a takeover deal by Murdoch's News Corp.
- Special Report | The Limbaugh and Murdoch Meltdowns: Week of May 27
Ex-Cameron aide detained over alleged perjury, David Stringer, Associated Press
The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was detained Wednesday on suspicion of perjury in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers.
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December 2, 2012 | The Federal Communications Commission is charging ahead with its plan to let Rupert Murdoch gobble up more media outlets. And we've just learned that the FCC may try to hold a secret vote to allow more media consolidation in the U.S. — possibly within the next two weeks.
