How Thatcher and Murdoch Made their Secret Deal (Guardian)
Adapted from the preface to the new fifth edition of Good Times, Bad Times (Bedford Square books and, in the […]
“Clinton Cash” Author Peter Schweizer’s Long History Of Errors, Retractions and Questionable Sourcing
Also see: “Rupert Pulls The Strings To Push ‘Clinton Cash’ Into Respectable Media“ Media should be cautious with Republican activist […]
Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire Pushes Baseless Conspiracy Theory That Google “Controls The White House”
Related: Fox News Attacks Google As Anti-Church? Fox News, Wall Street Journal, And New York Post Mimic Murdoch By Attacking Google […]
Rupert Murdoch’s US Empire Siphons $4.5 Billion from Australian Business Virtually Tax-Free
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the US has siphoned off $4.5 billion of cash and shares from his Australian media businesses in […]
How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch
Special Report: Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but […]
Murdoch, Scaife and CIA Propaganda
December 31, 2014 Special Report: The rapid expansion of America’s right-wing media began in the 1980s as the Reagan administration coordinated […]
FOX Affiliate Faked “Kill a Cop” Protest Chant
Last night, Baltimore’s WBFF aired a video of protesters chanting “kill a cop”– evidence, it claimed, of murderously violent rhetoric […]
Russell Brand Takes On Rupert Murdoch Over Mogul’s Own Tax Dealings After The Sun’s ‘Hypocrite’ Front Page (Guardian)
04 December 2014 Who needs an interview with a rival paper when you can get to the very root of […]
Review of Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch, by Nick Davies, with an Excerpt from the Book
Nick Davies’s account of how he exposed the Murdoch empire is as exciting as a thriller By Peter Oborne Most journalists […]
Scotland Yard: Rupert Murdoch was Involved in “Industrial-Scale” Phone-Hacking Scandal (NY Daily News)
News of the World phone hacking plot traces to Rupert Murdoch himself, cops claim Andy Coulson, former editor of the […]
Only U.S.-Based News Corp Phone-Hacking Suit Dismissed; Angelina Jolie’s Stunt Double Must Pursue Case In UK
“… Plaintiff Eunice Huthart has suffered a grotesque invasion of her privacy …” By DOMINIC PATTEN Deadline Hollywood, May 22, 2014 […]
The Secret History of Rupert Murdoch: CIA/Mafia Drug & Murder Ties, Cover-Ups in Australia
The CIA, Drugs, And An Australian Killer Cop By Michael Barker “Most well-developed heroin networks very quickly move towards a complementation […]
Partisan Witchhunt Claims from Club for Growth Upended by New Court Filings
New court filings in a federal challenge to Wisconsin’s John Doe campaign finance probe into Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker undermine […]
Ex-News Corp. Reporter Says He Was Part of Hacking ‘Conspiracy’
By Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg News, January 29, 2014 A former reporter at the News of the World told a London […]
Fox Chairman Roger Ailes’ Immigration Policy: “Shoot to Kill” – and His Personal PR Consultant is a Knight of Malta
Media Pro: Sherman’s march By Nicole Levy (Excerpt) Capital New York, January 13, 2014 SHERMAN’S SUNDAY: As Tuesday’s pushed-up publication date […]
Perception Management: Wall Street Journal Columnist Repeatedly gets Facts Wrong about NSA Surveillance
Now that illicit NSA surveillance has been exposed and universally deplored, it’s time to raise our hackles over media perception […]
Major Contributors to Boehner for Speaker Committee: Lindner, Anschutz, Paulson, News Corp. Execs …
Also see: “John Boehner’s Ranking Campaign Contributor has a Sordid History of Corporate Crime“ Boehner for Speaker Committee Stacks Up […]
Fox News Swayed Public Opinion Using Online Sock Puppets
Also see: “HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook & The Industrial Surveillance Complex” “A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters” There’s a strange […]
Cashing in on Kids: 139 ALEC Bills in 2013 Promote a Private, For-Profit Education Model
Despite widespread public opposition to the education privatization agenda, at least 139 bills or state budget provisions reflecting American Legislative […]
Fox News Found to be a Major Driving Force Behind Global Warming Denial
American consumers of conservative media like Fox News distrust climate scientists and don’t believe the planet is warming A new […]
Daily Beast on “The Daniel Morgan Murder: An Unsolved Mystery of the Murdoch Hacking Scandal”
Also see: “The murder of Daniel Morgan: A crime the police wouldn’t solve,” independent.co.uk May 10, 2013 On Friday, Britain’s […]
Breaking: Fox News Investor Prince Alwaleed’s Attorneys Threaten to Sue Constantine Report for “Defamation”
Photo: Prince Alwaleed bin Tatal of Saudi Arabia Over the years, there have been a litany of “legal” attempts to chill […]
News Corp. Investor Prince Alwaleed Believes “Too Much is Made” of Phone-Hacking Scandal
The Stockholder in the Sand Excerpt from Vanity Fair, March 21, 2013 … The ties between Alwaleed and Murdoch run deep. […]
Murdoch Defends N.Y. Post’s Coverage of Boston Bombing
“… The story was deemed ‘reckless and appalling’ by the Columbia Journalism Review, a sentiment echoed by much of the […]
Barrick Gold (CIA/Mafia Front) Co-Chairman Paid Staggering $17-million in 2012, as Company gets Generous with Executives
” … Mr. Thornton is familiar with high compensation, as he is a former president of Goldman Sachs. He also […]
Phone Hacking: Rupert Murdoch Hit by 600 New Claims
Suspect turned informant gives new evidence to Met before parliament vote on newspaper regulation March 15, 2013 Detectives are examining […]
Spies and the Media
“… There is a similar operation in the U.S. I think it was called Operation Mockingbird. But in the U.K. […]
Guns, Race and America’s Collective Psychosis
By ISHMAEL REED CounterPunch, December 21-23, 2012 When I appeared on a panel with Chris Hedges during the Miami International […]
Rupert Murdoch, Big Brother & Press Freedom (re Levenson Inquiry Report on UK Mass Media)
The Reporter, December 8, 2012 “Big Brother is watching you.” That was the pervasive punch line in British writer George Orwell’s […]
British Activists Protest Murdoch’s “Media Mafia”
NTD Television, November 29, 2012 Activists demonstrated in Westminster on Thursday, outside the conference center where the Leveson report into […]
Murdoch’s News Corp. Adds Two New Directors: Elaine Chao and Alvaro Uribe
By MICHELLE CELARIER New York Post, October 17, 2012 News Corp. shareholders backed the company-nominated board of directors at yesterday’s […]
Michigan GOP Rep. Fred Upton, Whirlpool Heir, and the Demise of Benton Harbor
Whirlpool Heir Fred Upton and the Reagan Administration Wikipedia: Frederick Stephen “Fred” Upton (born April 23, 1953) is the U.S. […]
Rupert Murdoch in the News – Fair and Balanced Vilifications of the Most Reviled Man in Media
Murdoch Confidante Recalls Chummy Ties With British Leaders New York Times Blogs, May 11, 2012 Former News International chief executive […]
Independent and Principled? Behind the Cato Myth
” … The more you get to know the real Cato Institute, the more you see a rank, powerful rightwing […]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Faces Multiple US Lawsuits over Hacking
Legal pressure is mounting on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in the US after it emerged that multiple lawyers are preparing […]