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Posted at 7:06am on Monday, August 1, 2011

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Mondo Stars editors
Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:39am on Friday, November 12, 2010

Media Matters Pays Small Fortune to Lunch with Rupert Murdoch

-- Mediaweek Magazine reported on November 11, 2010:

"A good cause makes for strange bedfellows—or at least lunch dates. Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog that bashes Fox News on a daily basis, will soon be lunching with News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch. In an online charity auction benefiting the Global Poverty Project, Media Matters bid $86,000 to win the honor of breaking bread with Murdoch."

Mondo Stars editors
Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:15am on Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Fox Threatening World Series, NFL Blackout for Viewers Across Nation

-- Source: Sports Fans Coalition

-- October 11, 2010 -- The Sports Fans Coalition today urged News Corporation's Fox Sports Net to lift its current blackouts of regional sports networks across the nation and back off its threat to extend the blackout to Fox broadcast stations, depriving viewers of the NFL and World Series.

"Fox has blindsided sports fans this month by taking its regional sports networks off of a pay-tv provider as a form of leverage in contract disputes," said Brian Frederick, executive director of the Coalition. "With the professional and college football seasons well underway and postseason baseball just getting started, many sports fans are already extremely upset about missing the games they want to see. We have written News Corp. CEO and Chairman Rupert Murdoch, urging him to settle these commercial disputes off the field, but keep the games on the air."

The Sports Fans Coalition is a nonprofit fighting to give sports fans a voice on issues like media blackouts, college football playoffs, stadium construction and high ticket prices.

Fox has already removed its regional sports networks from a major pay TV provider in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Tennessee and Los Angeles and is threatening to do the same with the Fox broadcast network in cities that include New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Many of these cities have teams in the MLB playoffs.

"Sports fans should not be treated like fumbled pigskin in a clash between corporate behemoths," said Frederick. "Because sports are so important to Americans, sports coverage is often used as the primary form of leverage in contract disputes between broadcasters and pay-TV companies. We ask that this October, Fox not engage in this practice."

shelley anderson
el cerrito, CA USA

Posted at 11:31am on Monday, May 3, 2010

There is a very common sense law in this country that one has to be born a citizen of the U.S. in order to run a newspaper (much less a media conglomerate). Murdoch bought a special dispensation from Congress in order to obtain dual citizenship that allowed him to buy media here. Since then he has done his level best to undermine the whole concept of a free press dedicated to educating American citizens. When the next Hitler comes along, he can do the same and obtain a propaganda stage for his own ideology. Murdoch has led the way and our own Congre$$ let him do it.

Mondo Stars editors
Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:40pm on Tuesday, October 6, 2009

In the November 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff writes about the business psychology of Rupert Murdoch:

"Murdoch’s son-in-law Matthew Freud—married to Elisabeth Murdoch, and one of the most well-known P.R. men in the U.K.—explained to me what he believes is the essence of Murdoch’s approach to business: Murdoch is not a modern marketer. He runs his business not on the basis of giving the consumer what he wants but through more old-fashioned methods of structural market domination. His world, and training ground, is the world of the newspaper war—a zero-sum game, where you wrestle market share from the other guy. Curiously, his newspaper battles have most often involved cutting prices rather than, as he now proposes to do on the Internet, raising them. (Murdoch has contributed as much as anyone, with his low-priced papers, to the expectation that news is a de-valued commodity.)

But more than being about cost, his strategy is about pain. What he is always doing is demonstrating a level of strength and will and resolve against which the other guys, the weaker guys, cower. He can take more pain than anybody else. While others persist in the vanity of the Internet, he will endure the short- or medium-term pain necessary to build a profitable business."

Dina
Ceres,Ca

Posted at 8:55pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2007

never heard of him I think he looks really saggy and old.

elizabeth barry
fuquay-varina, nc

Posted at 8:32pm on Thursday, June 14, 2007

I am an alumni of Worcester, MA colleges. I am stunned that Benji on "So you think you can dance" was allowed to end his dance in his underwear. The music was latino re America and the underwear was absolutely disgraceful to our Country. Shame on Fox Network... Shame on the sponsers for taking a great show and allowing this to happen... no products, no sales...