AMERICAblog: Rupert Murdoch rips media, blames them for own circulation problems
ahaque
· 1 year ago
If Rupert Murdoch will support right wing causes and enable Fox News to impose aggressive right wing agenda on common folks and now navigate Wall Street Journal in that direction too, then what does he expect besides falling profits, limited viewing and lower competitiveness. It is about time that Mr. Murdoch took his hands off the media and allow them to run independently in a balanced manner.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Sure Rupie, "complacency" and "monopoly" didn't help the dear old corporate media but it lost most America through its curious behavior in the 2000 election, the collusion and enabling that helped bring about the Bush disaster and its ongoing utter disregard for the truth and failure to acknowledge its own massive failings.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
My goodness sakes alive! Mr. Murdoch has no accountability whatsoever for how it's all worked out in the modern media. I had no idea he was such an innocent. I was under the impression that Mr. Murdoch almost single-handedly created today's complacent lapdog media. My mistake!
okojo
· 1 year ago
hmmm, maybe it wasn't the right time do a takeover of the WSJ, have News Corp leverage to the hilt, and banks already nervous lending to anyone without gold plated collateral...
He has been in this position before, he had the banks on the verge of calling in his loans in the late 1980s, but got them to back off...
The point of buying the WSJ was to synergy it with his Fox Business channel against cash cow, CNBC. However Fox Business channel has been a financial rat hole, and the dead tree media has all taken a hit, so old Rupert has a couple major ass debt obligations and some loans due dates that keeps him up at night.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Rupert has had his eye on China for awhile too.
With China starting to feel the pinch, though, that's looking more and more long-term every day.
(And, frankly, I don't think somebody who looks like Rupert thinks long-term all that much anymore.)
okojo
· 1 year ago
I don't know what Murdoch wants, but he seems to aim at a couple monoliths, whether CNN or the BBC and tries to bring him down. Going after Dow Jones and starting Fox Business was a shot across the bow at Bloomberg and Reuters. I think he has seen how profitable CNBC has been to GE.
He just leverage News Corp at the wrong time, and he probably paid too much for Dow Jones, and he needs Fox Business Channel to make money, even though ad revenue is way down..
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The corporate media stooped to conquer... Watched Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the NYT, last week, deny any media/NYT complicity with Team Bush...Her examples were all post Judy Miller.
jeffg166
· 1 year ago
Newspapers are on their way out of existence. They may survive online but newsprint is going the way of all things.
ThingsComeUndone
· 1 year ago
Conservative or Liberal who has lost the most circulation or in the fox news vs KO and Rachel who has gained the most viewers?
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Speaking of dishing, Huffpo has some excerpts from Huckabee's new book:
On Mitt Romney:
Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the oddsmakers to win the Iowa caucuses, "which we took as a sign of total disrespect." He mocks Romney for suggesting, during one debate, more investment in high-yield stocks as a solution to economic woes. "Let them eat stocks!" Huckabee jokes.
Fred Thompson:
"Fred Thompson never did grasp the dynamics of the race or the country, and his amazingly lackluster campaign reflected just how disconnected he was with the people, despite the anticipation and expectation that greeted his candidacy," Huckabee writes.
Conservative Christian Leader Gary Bauer:
[Had] an "ever-changing reason to deny me his support." Of one private meeting with Bauer, Huckabee says, "it was like playing Whac-a-Mole at the arcade -- whatever issue I addressed, another one surfaced as a 'problem' that made my candidacy unacceptable." He accuses Bauer of putting issue of national security before bedrock social issues like the sanctity of life and traditional marriage.
John Hagee:
Huckabee speaks to Hagee by phone before the McCain endorsement, while the former Arkansas governor is preparing for a spot on Saturday Night Live. "I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. "I didn't get a straight answer."
The Club For Growth:
"I don't take issue with what they believe, but the smugness with which they believe it," writes Huckabee, who raised some taxes as a governor and cut other deals with his state's Democratic legislature. "Faux-Cons aren't interested in spirited or thoughtful debate, because such an endeavor requires accountability for the logical conclusion of their argument."
Newspapers, vs regular TV vs cable and radio plus conservative vs liberal who has gained lost. Also how are the extremes of Conservative vs liberal media doing?
ObamaLover
· 1 year ago
I love this site, but honestly the Net Roots have done a shitty job getting the story out there about Saxby Chambliss.
He had a fake "bum knee" got 5 student deferments in Vietnam. Is running against a person who despite a case of polio forced his way into service in Vietnam. And of course called a triple amputee veteran unpatriotic.
Where is the Net Roots on this. This Senate Seat should be the main focus from now until runoff election day.
Mighty
· 1 year ago
Rupert can go fuck himself. He created Foxenstein's monster and he can kiss my patooty. There's nothing I like more than for him to be made pennyless.
tc59
· 1 year ago
He'll be next inline asking for a government bailout.
Carl Gordon
· 1 year ago
Rupert's life is the epitome of equal parts philosophy of the absurd and Thomas Pynchon: man's futile search for meaning, dessert, and unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternal truths or values. Does this realization of the absurd require suicide or at the very least a B.S. in Business Administration? No. It requires revolt. And as revolting as his media is, it seems that at times he's condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a bullshit mountain, taking out the trash(news), or finding clarity and purpose in a house full of news hacks, only to see his best intentions and needs cast off like so much dung, as it rolls down the hill of his degradation. Huh? The struggle itself is enough to fill a man's heart, yet he dies of hunger.
How should this abused and tattered downy prince of York live in the rapidly approaching winter of his discontent? Clearly, no ethical rules apply, as they are all based on higher powers or on false justifications based on Bronze age fairy tales. They tell him that integrity has no need of rules. Everything is permitted. Certainly not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgment of a fact and dismal prospects whence facing the Fall T.V. schedule.
I imagine he sometimes pictures himself the unwitting servant in a cosmic play, a Don Juan, a serial seducer who lives the passionate life to the fullest, but ultimately can't get it up. There is no noble love but that which recognizes itself to be both short-lived and exceptional. An actor, who depicts ephemeral lives for ephemeral fame, demonstrating to what degree appearing creates being. In this silly play on the SRO stage that’s his life, he travels the whole course of the dead-end path that the observer in the audience takes a lifetime to cover, or just enough to be annoying. Or crazier yet, his role as the absurd man takes on the aura of the conqueror, the warrior who forgoes all promises of eternity to affect and engage fully in human history, choosing action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final.
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He has been in this position before, he had the banks on the verge of calling in his loans in the late 1980s, but got them to back off...
The point of buying the WSJ was to synergy it with his Fox Business channel against cash cow, CNBC. However Fox Business channel has been a financial rat hole, and the dead tree media has all taken a hit, so old Rupert has a couple major ass debt obligations and some loans due dates that keeps him up at night.
With China starting to feel the pinch, though, that's looking more and more long-term every day.
(And, frankly, I don't think somebody who looks like Rupert thinks long-term all that much anymore.)
He just leverage News Corp at the wrong time, and he probably paid too much for Dow Jones, and he needs Fox Business Channel to make money, even though ad revenue is way down..
Watched Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the NYT, last week, deny any media/NYT complicity with Team Bush...Her examples were all post Judy Miller.
On Mitt Romney:
Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the oddsmakers to win the Iowa caucuses, "which we took as a sign of total disrespect." He mocks Romney for suggesting, during one debate, more investment in high-yield stocks as a solution to economic woes. "Let them eat stocks!" Huckabee jokes.
Fred Thompson:
"Fred Thompson never did grasp the dynamics of the race or the country, and his amazingly lackluster campaign reflected just how disconnected he was with the people, despite the anticipation and expectation that greeted his candidacy," Huckabee writes.
Conservative Christian Leader Gary Bauer:
[Had] an "ever-changing reason to deny me his support." Of one private meeting with Bauer, Huckabee says, "it was like playing Whac-a-Mole at the arcade -- whatever issue I addressed, another one surfaced as a 'problem' that made my candidacy unacceptable." He accuses Bauer of putting issue of national security before bedrock social issues like the sanctity of life and traditional marriage.
John Hagee:
Huckabee speaks to Hagee by phone before the McCain endorsement, while the former Arkansas governor is preparing for a spot on Saturday Night Live. "I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. "I didn't get a straight answer."
The Club For Growth:
"I don't take issue with what they believe, but the smugness with which they believe it," writes Huckabee, who raised some taxes as a governor and cut other deals with his state's Democratic legislature. "Faux-Cons aren't interested in spirited or thoughtful debate, because such an endeavor requires accountability for the logical conclusion of their argument."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/huckab...
He had a fake "bum knee" got 5 student deferments in Vietnam. Is running against a person who despite a case of polio forced his way into service in Vietnam. And of course called a triple amputee veteran unpatriotic.
Where is the Net Roots on this. This Senate Seat should be the main focus from now until runoff election day.
How should this abused and tattered downy prince of York live in the rapidly approaching winter of his discontent? Clearly, no ethical rules apply, as they are all based on higher powers or on false justifications based on Bronze age fairy tales. They tell him that integrity has no need of rules. Everything is permitted. Certainly not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgment of a fact and dismal prospects whence facing the Fall T.V. schedule.
I imagine he sometimes pictures himself the unwitting servant in a cosmic play, a Don Juan, a serial seducer who lives the passionate life to the fullest, but ultimately can't get it up. There is no noble love but that which recognizes itself to be both short-lived and exceptional. An actor, who depicts ephemeral lives for ephemeral fame, demonstrating to what degree appearing creates being. In this silly play on the SRO stage that’s his life, he travels the whole course of the dead-end path that the observer in the audience takes a lifetime to cover, or just enough to be annoying. Or crazier yet, his role as the absurd man takes on the aura of the conqueror, the warrior who forgoes all promises of eternity to affect and engage fully in human history, choosing action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final.