Rupert's News Corp Swings to $203 Million Loss | The Wrap
I don't understand how this will work, what will drive people to pay for content on the internet, content that they can find on another site for free - easily. That they can get from Twitter, Facebook... or countless other sources. What prevents a few blogs from paying for access, just to reframe the articles with clips, and reposting them to their free sites - sites that people who don't want to pay will be drawn to.
Showing posts with label Rupert Murdoch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rupert Murdoch. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Monday, February 4, 2008
Murdoch says News Corp. isn't considering a bid for Yahoo - Feb. 4, 2008
Murdoch says News Corp. isn't considering a bid for Yahoo - Feb. 4, 2008:
Now that would be a fun deal to watch.
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- News Corp. is not considering a bid for
Internet giant Yahoo, said CEO Rupert Murdoch during an earnings call with
analysts Monday."
Now that would be a fun deal to watch.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Judith Regan Vs. Rupert Murdoch: Who Has The Bigger Cock? [Broadsuits]
Judith Regan Vs. Rupert Murdoch: Who Has The Bigger Cock? [Broadsuits]
Is she going to try and blame them for people thinking she is crazy, people think she is crazy because she wanted to sell a book written by a person widely believed to be a killer. A book about the crime, he "didn't" commit. That is why people think she is crazy.
Former HarperCollins imprint editor and assistant taunting "crazy bitch" Judith
Regan finally filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against NewsCorp,
HarperCollins' parent company yesterday, almost a year after she was fired for
planning a certain O.J. Simpson confessional and also for alleged anti-Semitic
remarks.
Is she going to try and blame them for people thinking she is crazy, people think she is crazy because she wanted to sell a book written by a person widely believed to be a killer. A book about the crime, he "didn't" commit. That is why people think she is crazy.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Murdoch Bags Dow Jones - The Ag - News Summary - News in Brief - TIME
Murdoch Bags Dow Jones - The Ag - News Summary - News in Brief - TIME:
This is a great win for Murdoch. He is going to use this to launch his own business channel that he is planning to compete against CNBC.
"The wooing game is over and Rupert Murdoch has won (as he has made a habit of
doing during his career). The New York Times reports that Murdoch now has
'enough support from the deeply divided Bancroft family to buy Dow Jones &
Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal and one of the world’s most
respected news sources, for $5 billion'. His News Corp. empire is both vast and
eclectic notes the Washington Post and includes 'the Times of London, 'American
Idol,' 'The Simpsons Movie,' Fox News Channel, MySpace, National Geographic
television and a British tabloid that prints photos of topless women'. We assume
the new Journal's Page 3 pics will be illustrated, keeping with tradition at
least."
This is a great win for Murdoch. He is going to use this to launch his own business channel that he is planning to compete against CNBC.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Friday, June 1, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp to become carbon neutral - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp to become carbon neutral - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:
Just some more information about News Corp. going carbon neutral. I think this is Murdoch taking a step towards the left on the global warming issues. It is also a great step for the movement being accepted as a whole.
"Mr Murdoch has bought a Toyota-made Lexus GS450H 'green' car, and other
practical measures include solar-powered golf carts to carry people round the
Fox film lot in Hollywood, building environmentally friendly studios, replacing
company fleets with hybrids, using renewable energy, and offsetting remaining
emissions by financing windpower in India.
The world's most prominent
media tycoon is being hailed by environmentalists as the most important of a
chain of high-profile new recruits to the battle to control climate change,
including Sir Richard Branson and Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco.
His planned campaign 'to change the way the public thinks about these
issues' could be particularly effective because of the strength of his
operations in the United States, China and India, the three most critical
countries for tackling global warming. Mr Murdoch told his employees: 'We must
first get out own house in order.'
News Corporation has a carbon
footprint of at 641,150 tons a year and will now aim to be carbon neutral by
2010. News International, which publishes his British newspapers, and the
publishers HarperCollins will achieve this goal by the end of the year and all
books published by the imprint Fourth Estate are to be printed on recycled paper
from 1 July."
Just some more information about News Corp. going carbon neutral. I think this is Murdoch taking a step towards the left on the global warming issues. It is also a great step for the movement being accepted as a whole.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Media Blog on National Review Online
Media Blog on National Review Online:
I had an interesting conversation about this today. I mentioned I had read about this on the internet and this guy said he doubted it. I went on that there is reason to believe it is true because Murdoch is not an idiot- which he right away said that he thought he was (I think anyone who thinks an idiot could run News Corp. is an idiot and a willful idiot at that). I mentioned that it could save the company money, and that Murdoch would never turn his back on something that could save money. The man replied that money wasn't everything, got impatient and walked off.
I wonder sometimes why that the left hates so strongly. Why hate Starbucks with such venom, it does good things for its workers, it does good things for education and it is working to do better on the environmental and free trade areas. It used to be said that the left was based on a politics of hatred and envy, and I find that hard not to believe sometimes. Talk to people about McDonalds working to make their food healthier and some of them will tell your right out that they will still hate McDonalds.
Does it make sense to hate a business just because it is big, and how big does it have to be before you should start hating it.
A major problem with the approach that many take towards corporations is that it undermines their causes. Suppose there is a restaurant that sells chickens, it is a fast foot chain and it is fighting for its small part of the market. To do that it has to cut corners on cost to under sell its competitors. It does this by buying chickens from farms that treat their chickens poorly. Now suppose a new president takes over the company, he has heard the complaints and wants to make a change. He makes the commitment to get the best healthiest chickens he can - and has to raise the price to make up for that. If the left continues to treat him with disgust and hatred, the business will go down because the change will not generate new customers and the old ones will leave seeking lower prices. No business can or will take a loss for long, corners will get cut again to lower that price and be competitive. On the other hand if the parties on the left work with the company president and support the company and the change results in a continued profit - the change will remain. Not only that but one business making money doing the right thing can leverage the industry to higher standards.
"May 10, 2007 — EDITOR'S NOTE: News Corp., The Post's corporate parent, employs
some 47,000 people on five continents. Yesterday, Chairman and CEO Rupert
Murdoch announced the company's dramatic plans to become fully carbon-neutral by
2010. Below are some of his remarks to News Corp. employees explaining why, and
how, we'll do it - and that this is only the start. "
I had an interesting conversation about this today. I mentioned I had read about this on the internet and this guy said he doubted it. I went on that there is reason to believe it is true because Murdoch is not an idiot- which he right away said that he thought he was (I think anyone who thinks an idiot could run News Corp. is an idiot and a willful idiot at that). I mentioned that it could save the company money, and that Murdoch would never turn his back on something that could save money. The man replied that money wasn't everything, got impatient and walked off.
I wonder sometimes why that the left hates so strongly. Why hate Starbucks with such venom, it does good things for its workers, it does good things for education and it is working to do better on the environmental and free trade areas. It used to be said that the left was based on a politics of hatred and envy, and I find that hard not to believe sometimes. Talk to people about McDonalds working to make their food healthier and some of them will tell your right out that they will still hate McDonalds.
Does it make sense to hate a business just because it is big, and how big does it have to be before you should start hating it.
A major problem with the approach that many take towards corporations is that it undermines their causes. Suppose there is a restaurant that sells chickens, it is a fast foot chain and it is fighting for its small part of the market. To do that it has to cut corners on cost to under sell its competitors. It does this by buying chickens from farms that treat their chickens poorly. Now suppose a new president takes over the company, he has heard the complaints and wants to make a change. He makes the commitment to get the best healthiest chickens he can - and has to raise the price to make up for that. If the left continues to treat him with disgust and hatred, the business will go down because the change will not generate new customers and the old ones will leave seeking lower prices. No business can or will take a loss for long, corners will get cut again to lower that price and be competitive. On the other hand if the parties on the left work with the company president and support the company and the change results in a continued profit - the change will remain. Not only that but one business making money doing the right thing can leverage the industry to higher standards.
6 Reasons Bill O'Reilly Is Probably Crazy [Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid]
6 Reasons Bill O'Reilly Is Probably Crazy [Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid]:
There really is something about O'Reilly that is crazy. I think it is one thing to talk about people who want the end of the Iraq war as being wrong, it is another to say that they hate America. O'Reilly's rhetorical language stirs the pot of national discussion but does little to address the important problems. He has been waging a war against Soros and his movements in the media and on the internet. To argue that he doesn't have a right to have his voice heard, is to imply that Rupert Murdoch does not have the right to have his voice heard.
"6. O'Reilly created a chart purporting to show a vast array of powerful forces
financed by George Soros devoted to attacking him and destroying Democracy As We
Know ItTM.
5. Bill O'Reilly claimed that the French economy was in trouble
because he called for a boycott of that nation for their opposition to the Iraq
war. As evidence he cited a publication called the Paris Business Review. No
such publication exists (well, maybe).
4. Bill O'Reilly had an on-air freak
out when NY Times columnist and economics professor Paul Krugman cited research
from Media Matters for America. He went on to compare Media Matters to Fidel
Castro and the KKK. Nowhere on Media Matters' website is there any expressed
support for white supremacy or communism.
3. Bill O'Reilly said that white
people were afraid to say things to black people.
2. Bill O'Reilly screamed
that Geraldo Rivera wanted anarchy because Rivera didn't think that the most
important element of a drunk driver killing two children was the fact that the
driver was an illegal alien (as opposed to him being a murderer).
1. Bill
O'Reilly thinks that gay marriage will lead to people marrying goats, dolphins,
and ducks."
There really is something about O'Reilly that is crazy. I think it is one thing to talk about people who want the end of the Iraq war as being wrong, it is another to say that they hate America. O'Reilly's rhetorical language stirs the pot of national discussion but does little to address the important problems. He has been waging a war against Soros and his movements in the media and on the internet. To argue that he doesn't have a right to have his voice heard, is to imply that Rupert Murdoch does not have the right to have his voice heard.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Explications: What Everyone's Saying About Rupert Murdoch's Bid For Dow Jones - Gawker
Explications: What Everyone's Saying About Rupert Murdoch's Bid For Dow Jones - Gawker
The bid by Rupert Murdoch for the Dow Jones Company owner of The Wall Street Journal and other properties, is not meeting with a friendly reception. The bid for $5 million is reportedly going to be voted down by more than 50 percent of the voting shares. A number of the shares are owned by the Bancroft family,which is said to have long disliked Murdoch's newspaper style. Murdoch is after the company to create a foundation for his own business news channel that he is planning on starting.
The bid by Rupert Murdoch for the Dow Jones Company owner of The Wall Street Journal and other properties, is not meeting with a friendly reception. The bid for $5 million is reportedly going to be voted down by more than 50 percent of the voting shares. A number of the shares are owned by the Bancroft family,which is said to have long disliked Murdoch's newspaper style. Murdoch is after the company to create a foundation for his own business news channel that he is planning on starting.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
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