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Murdoch scandal (cont.)
By Chris Daly Gee, I guess I have been wrong about Rupert Murdoch all along. Turns out he’s just a simple publisher striving always to do the right thing. Here’s the latest from London. Rupert Murdoch...
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“Not a Fit Person”
By Chris Daly Well, now it’s official. Something that many people have thought for a long time is now part of the findings of a British parliamentary report: Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to...
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Another view of Murdoch
By Chris Daly Don’t say this blog is one-sided, even on the subject of Rupert Murdoch. The British writer William Shawcross recently stuck up for Murdoch in this piece in the Guardian. Shawcross, who...
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News about the News
By Christopher B. Daly As so often happens, the Monday business section of the New York Times delivers an array of stories about journalism and media worth reading. (Why doesn’t the paper have a...
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Murdoch scandals (cont.)
The estimable John F. Burns updates the unfolding Murdoch meltdown in today’s Times. Question: will we ever see Murdoch in handcuffs, or slinking into a courthouse with a trenchcoat over his head?...
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Murdoch dodges a bullet
By Christopher B. Daly So, British regulators have blinked in their showdown with Rupert Murdoch and decided that the media mogul can go ahead and stay in the business of broadcasting in the U.K.,...
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For Fox News chief: 4 more years
By Christopher B. Daly Politics aside (now, how often do you see that phrase in a presidential campaign season?), let’s give Roger Ailes of Fox News his due. He did the following: –had an original idea...
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Keeping up with the Murdochs
By Christopher B. Daly Now, British authorities are saying they plan to bring bribery charges against former top-ranking editors in the Murdoch media empire. I’m confused: I thought these people were...
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Memo to Britain
By Christopher B. Daly I’ll keep this brief. Just 11 words, in fact: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. It has worked here (on the whole) since 1791. As the Brits grapple...
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Murdoch to racing writers: drop dead
By Christopher B. Daly When the horses run today in the Belmont Stakes in New York, there will be some empty seats in the press box. Just days before the running of the prestigious horse race, the New...
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The re-making of the news media
By Christopher B. Daly We are living through a period of great flux in the news business. There are new ventures, new hybrids, new devices for gathering and disseminating information, documents, and...
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Inside the Meme Factory: Conservatives gin up “studies” to suit needs
By Christopher B. Daly Here’s a peek inside what I call “the Meme Factory” — the interlocking set of institutions that conservatives built, mainly since WWII, to manufacture “studies,” slogans, and...
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The dinosaurs of old media still shake the earth
By Christopher B. Daly Is all the coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s play for Time Warner a bit of an over-reaction? The NYTimes, for example, cleared the decks and went all-in, devoting nearly a double...
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