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Enormous Impact
“News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they’re thinking... when they’re laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential—and duty—of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.”
—Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, CEO of News Corp
(owner of Fox, Wall Street Journal, StarTV and scores
of other media and other companies.
2008 revenues: $32.9 billion)
(See TIME and video clip
at “OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.”)
(owner of Fox, Wall Street Journal, StarTV and scores
of other media and other companies.
2008 revenues: $32.9 billion)
(See TIME and video clip
at “OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.”)
Today in History
2003: Yugoslavia dissolved, replaced by Serbia & Montenegro; 1999: NYC police shoot and kill immigrant Amadou Diallo; 1997: OJ Simpson acquitted of murdering his ex-wife; 1974: Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst kidnapped; 1969: PLO is born; 1945: Yalta Conference—FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet to discuss war; 1861: States meet to form Confederacy; 1826: The Last of the Mohicans published; 1789: Washington elected to two terms as first U.S president; 1783: Britain declares end of hostilities with the former American colonies
(See History.com)
Ted,
ReplyDeleteMike Royko said it best years ago, when Murdoch’s sleaze machine bought the Chicago Sun-Times. As Mike was heading out the door, that same day, to write his column for the Tribune across the street, he said “no self-respecting fish would be caught dead wrapped in a Rupert Murdoch newspaper.” Amen. That $32.9 billion in revenues reaffirms the famous quote by H. L. Mencken that “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." For an Australian, Murdoch certainly seems to have figured out the American people quite well. The New York Times struggles and Fox News Channel prospers. Go figger.
Dan
Dan:
ReplyDeleteI love what Rupert's success says about the country. Well, "love" is a bit strong. On an investor group's page describing NewsCorp,under "Major Industry" it says, "Recreation" and under "Sub Industry," "Motion Pictures."
Its not that hard to figure out americans... look at your foreign policy, your politics and the swill that comes out of 'hollywood', big and small screen...
ReplyDeletea dash of this, a pinch of that, a dose of the other and you have it in a nutshell... Rupert's merely providing what you say you want...
What a sad epitaph for what once was the promise of this land...
And I dont say that with any malice....rather with the weariness of one who's been working hard with a small group of others to save one of Seattle's schools - the first alternative school in the city, founded 40 years ago - from the latest of regular District attempts to close it down ...
Newscorp has decided that only one side of the issues Americans are dealing with today are important to it's audience. Apparently anything that Rupert Murdoch doesn't approve of isn't going to be defined as an issue in our time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this comment. People don't realize that the newspaper and media were started in this country to inform the public of the tyrannies of Britain's government. The media have been doing it for hundreds of years and people don't appreciate that fact.
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