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Post by jdredd on May 19, 2017 2:16:13 GMT -5
Just think, this time last year Roger Ailes was still at the peak of his power as the evil mastermind behind Fox News. Now, the guy is wormfood. As I've said, time will eat all my enemies. Even Rupert, eventually.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 15, 2017 0:35:16 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/business/media/rupert-murdoch-21st-century-fox.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0"For a while, Rupert Murdoch seemed invincible. First, the mogul emerged relatively unscathed from a 2011 phone hacking scandal involving his British tabloids that threatened to upend his empire. Then, he installed his sons, Lachlan and James, in leadership roles at 21st Century Fox. And, last year, the thrice-divorced Mr. Murdoch married Jerry Hall, a former supermodel 25 years his junior. But even Mr. Murdoch, a self-made billionaire whose range of media assets wield enormous political influence on three continents, was no match for Silicon Valley. Like King Lear confronting his mortality, Mr. Murdoch, 86, is preparing to divide up a lifetime of spoils. And as he moves to sell off wide swaths of his media and entertainment business, he is also throwing into confusion the line of succession and testing the ties that bind the family-run fief." Well, unlike some "self made" men, Rupert is smart enough to realize his time is almost up. For better or worse, he helped super-polarize America with his Fox News. But now he has to figure out how to divide up his evil empire between his offspring, something that has often left even the sharpest ultra-wealthy dirtbag befuddled
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Post by jdredd on Jun 20, 2018 2:45:04 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/business/media/fox-news-immigration-coverage-celebrities.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsFor years, the Murdoch family has been able to maintain a separation between its Fox News network and its sprawling entertainment empire. But that corporate buffer seems to be disintegrating, with several prominent creators of hit TV shows expressing disgust in recent days with the 24-hour news channel’s coverage of the Trump administration’s border security policy. The brewing enmity between Fox’s generally left-leaning entertainment talent and Fox News could create even further fallout during what is already an uncertain time at the studio. Ryan Murphy left Fox earlier this year for a $300 million contract with Netflix, in part because of the uncertainty created by the 21st Century Fox sale." "The future of the company’s top executives is also in some doubt. Fox’s TV studio heads, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, both have agreed to stay at the company in the short term but it is not certain whether either would continue to work at the studio under new ownership." Uh-0h, some of Murdoch's minions are starting to rebel. Better late than never I guess, even though most of the damage has already been done. I suspect many former Fox fans have moved on to even more extreme news sources.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 21, 2018 2:40:00 GMT -5
Made the mistake of buying Murdoch's WSJ again, to read a story with the headline "Blue-Collar America Turns Solidly Red". Not very enlightening. But I also flipped through the rest of the paper and saw page after page of investor avarice on display. Rather depressing. I'm going to try to remember not to make that mistake again.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 25, 2021 22:57:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/business/media/rupert-murdoch-josh-hawley-woke.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage"The media mogul Rupert Murdoch denounced an “awful woke orthodoxy” and declared, “I’m far from done,” while accepting a lifetime achievement award this weekend. Mr. Murdoch, 89, made the remarks in a prerecorded video shown on Saturday during a virtual event for the United Kingdom nonprofit that honored him, the Australia Day Foundation. The video was shared on the website of The Herald Sun, a newspaper in Melbourne owned by Mr. Murdoch." "He also took the opportunity to condemn “cancel culture.” “For those of us in media,” he said, “there’s a real challenge to confront: a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation, to stifle debate, to ultimately stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential. He continued: “This rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media, is a straitjacket on sensibility. Too many people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech to be suppressed by this awful woke orthodoxy.” Geez, I've been trying for years to psychically cancel this dirtbag who helped polarize America with his Fox News, with absolutely no success. He'll probably outlive me.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 16, 2021 15:50:32 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/world/europe/murdoch-uk-news-channel.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"LONDON — Beset by declining ratings, upheaval in its on-air ranks and a multibillion-dollar defamation suit related to its election coverage, Fox News is staggering out of the Trump era — blamed by many for seeding the poisonous political culture that brought a violent mob into the halls of the United States Capitol. Yet in Britain, where television news is regulated to avoid political bias, Rupert Murdoch and a competing group of investors are seizing this moment to create two upstart news services that will challenge the BBC and other broadcasters by borrowing heavily from Mr. Murdoch’s Fox playbook." While we are out of the Trump era (for now?), the Murdoch era continues.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2021 17:52:10 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/media/fox-news-defamation-suit-dominion.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage"Fox News and its powerful owner, Rupert Murdoch, are facing a second major defamation suit over the network’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election, a new front in the growing legal battle over media disinformation and its consequences. In the latest aftershock of Donald J. Trump’s attempt to undermine President Biden’s victory, Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company that was at the center of a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory about rigged voting machines, filed a lawsuit on Friday accusing Fox News of advancing lies that devastated its reputation and business. Dominion, which has requested a jury trial, is seeking at least $1.6 billion in damages. Less than two months ago, Smartmatic, another election tech company, filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Mr. Murdoch’s Fox Corporation and named the Fox anchors Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro as defendants." There can be a price to pay for making sh&t up when you are pretending to be a news organization. First Ailes, then Rush, now Murdoch needs to go.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 31, 2021 2:17:13 GMT -5
Considering I started this thread in December 2009, once again waiting for bad guys to die is almost always an exercise in frustration. Nonetheless, those villains such as Mitch McConnell who seem like they have been around forever and will always be with us, will obviously eventually kick the bucket. Look how we are finally living in a world without Rush Limbaugh. Of course good guys will pass away too, but somehow it’s not the same. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe because good guy’s lives are a shining light while bad guy’s lives are dark stains, so you can look back on good guy’s lives as an inspiration while you just feel relief when a bad guy goes, such as Andrew Breitbart. Is it all just subjective and about emotions? Of course. But those are important. So I can take comfort from the fact that someday Donald Trump will be put to rest. Probably not before Joe Biden though.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 15, 2022 9:33:46 GMT -5
Here’s a fun story: The lawsuit Dominion, the voting machine company, is bringing against Faux News for its smearing of the company in the 2020 election. The bar is that Fox had to knowingly put on the air people who were telling lies about Dominion. Are they guilty? I think it’s pretty obvious. Of course the lawsuit will drag on for another 10 years, but it would be satisfying if Fox had to pay billions.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 27, 2023 13:41:11 GMT -5
Rupert must have really made a good deal with the Devil. Of course, with his money, he could. But at 92, he is now moving on to his FIFTH wife. What a dirty old man. But while he is not a Catholic, he got some award from (who else?) Pope John Paul II, so I guess he’s protected from Satan. For now. Personally, I liked Wendi.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 21, 2023 17:27:17 GMT -5
Looks like Rupert is beginning, probably grudgingly, to give up on his power. It’s so hard (look at Feinstein and Biden). He has got a new wife, too, number five. But even though he hasn’t gone to his reward, he is beginning to be old news. Really old news. But we are still stuck with the WSJ and Fox News spewing their conservative dogmas, and then whining about polarization. I say: we need to be polarized because the right sucks so much.
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