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Rupert Murdoch: leftist
Accuracy in Media, a website devoted to correcting media bias, doesn’t just reserve its ire for liberal outlets. Rupert Murdoch gets it in the neck too, for endorsing new Australian PM Kevin Rudd: One Australian observer of Murdoch told AIM that “Murdoch’s helping of leftist candidates is no surprise to longtime readers of The Australian.”…
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Foxing up Sky News
Here is what Rupert Murdoch told the House of Lords Communications committee regarding Sky News. Personally (not that I would necessarily want to) I think you could Fox up Sky, but what you lack in the UK is the Talk Radio base from which to recruit your talent. But don’t listen to me yacking on…
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Mogul news
From Crikey: Of all the embarrassing stories that have come out about Rupert Murdoch over the years, it is hard to go past today’s revelations in The AFR that he short-changed his own mother and then left her with a huge tax bill.
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Rupert Murdoch: a lesson from history?
Press Gazette picks up on the media side of Tony Blair’s former comms chief, Alastair Campbell’s diaries. One of the more interesting revelations concerns the impact of Rupert Murdoch on his editors. July 1995 [Meeting Rupert Murdoch and addressing News Corp editors in Sydney] “I got a fascinating glimpse of the way editors work around…