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Rupert Murdoch

PRIMETIME - PUTTING LIPSTICK ON OLBERMANN

I suppose the following will be read by some-to-many as a pandering defense of Rupert Murdoch, my boss. I'll risk it. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, on countless occasions, has ripped Murdoch. Olbermann detests Murdoch's politics and...

Dunleavy And The Boss

He's one of the last of the old-time big city newspaper leg men, and now the legs are shot, so last Tuesday, a rainy night at a vintage gin mill in Manhattan's theater district, a bunch of us got together to serenade the...

Watching Fox News: Don't have a cow, man

By Ed Siegel October 9, 2008 ALTHOUGH it's easy to dismiss the Fox News Channel as the broadcast wing of the Republican Party, critics continually turn a blind eye to a basic virtue of FNC: It's really pretty entertaining. As...

MySpace: Going Places

Hoping to renew its growth, the social network will let users transport their profiles to other sites, such as Yahoo and eBay The division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. that includes MySpace missed its revenue target. Users of...

Former Sky News presenter dies

Presenter Bob Friend, one of the faces who launched Sky News, has died after suffering from a brain tumour. Mr Friend, 70, joined the satellite broadcaster for its launch in 1989 after a 20-year career with the BBC. Mr Friend...

Financial crisis How cricket is affected by the credit crunch

We investigate just how the current financial instability around the world is impacting on cricket. Taxing questions: Cricket?s main area of concern is NatWest, who have spent _35m over 20 years, but were bought out by Royal...

They say, we pay.

In what is now a multimedia age, it's two newspaper front page headlines that still sum up a day's events: the Telegraph going with back from the brink, while the Guardian has staring into the abyss. It is even more telling...

Disney expands into Middle East

Studio in talks to fund, produce 'Storytellers' The Mouse has landed in the Middle East. The Arab world has a population of some 300 million people, and with two-thirds under age 30, the market is a natural for family-friendly...

US Kath & Kim not so noice

AFTER two years of delays and an avalanche of negative reviews, the US version of Kath & Kim is finally set to debut on American television. If the atrocious reviews by American TV critics are matched by equally dismal ratings...

Letters to the Editor - The Atlantic (October 2008)

Nicholas Carr (“Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” July/August Atlantic) put into words the unease I’ve felt since the school night a few years back when our home Internet connection went down. As Carr so wisely notes, from the...