The plot thickens...will Faux News be next?

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How about that? Turns out Rupert Murdoch really is a soulless scumbag, devoid of morality.

Now the question becomes...how many supporters of Murdoch's various properties will now renounce the man and his despicable actions?

The phone hacking scandal widened on Monday, as new reports emerged that papers beyond the News of the World were also involved in criminal behavior. In addition, Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, looked to be in serious peril.

Multiple outlets reported that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to claim that several News International papers illegally obtained his personal details.

According to The Guardian, The Independent and the BBC, investigators working for the News of the World, The Sun and The Sunday Times obtained information about Brown's family, his legal, his financial and his medical records. This marks the first time that any allegations about News International have targeted papers outside the News of the World. The Sun allegedly received details about Brown's son, Fraser, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, when he was an infant, and wrote exclusive stories about his then-unknown illness. The Sunday Times allegedly posed as Brown to obtain his personal financial records. His bank, Abbey National, wrote to The Sunday Times charging that "someone from the Sunday Times or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as Mr Brown for the purpose of obtaining information from Abbey National by deception," according to the BBC.

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News Corp apparently gave in to public pressure as well, issuing a statement asking for its bid to take over BSkyB to be referred to the Competition Commission and dropping its agreement to sell of Sky News as part of the bid. This means that any takeover will, at the very least, be delayed as regulators examine the "fitness" of News Corp to take over BSkyB.

Jeremy Hunt, the minister responsible for the handling of the bid, announced in the House of Commons on Monday that he will agree to this request.

All in all, the scandal surrounding Murdoch's British media empire has not lessened, even after the paper at the center of the controversy was closed for good.
 
what a lame hack piece devoid of facts and whole truth...nothing but a typical smear hate filled rant by the bitter whiner sappygetard
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Nice job debating the subject and not just smearing the person who posted it.
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Nice job linking us to your source

Nicer job attacking Murdoch for the actions of some employees and other 'alleged' activity. Good to see you do indeed believe in innocent until proven guilty as well.
 
Superfreak said:
Nice job linking us to your source

Nicer job attacking Murdoch for the actions of some employees and other 'alleged' activity. Good to see you do indeed believe in innocent until proven guilty as well.
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So the Chairman and CEO of a corporation that ran what was essentially a criminal enterprise gets off the hook because it was only the actions of some employees operating under his management? Nice.

And yes, Rupert Murdock and the rest are innocent until proven guilty for purposes of a court of law and cannot be punished by the state until their guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but in the court of public opinion Rupert Murdock and the rest are entitled to no such presumption. This is scumbaggery of the highest order and an affront to basic human decency. And while some of the acts are still "alleged," others are admitted and the fact that the News of the World has been shuttered should tell you a thing or two about the truth of the allegations.
 
Did Stuporcreep remind everyone that former Congressman Weiner was innocent until proven guilty?
 
It looks to me that once Murdock found out about the situation he dealt with it swiftly and decisively, and let the ax fly and started heads rolling. Imagine where we'd be if, say, our federal legislatures dealt with rouge agencies under their control in this manner. We wouldn't have a $14 trillion national debt, be importing 60% of our oil, be taxing our corporations out of the country and be reeling under the biggest housing crisis in US history.
 
David St. Hubbins said:
So the Chairman and CEO of a corporation that ran what was essentially a criminal enterprise gets off the hook because it was only the actions of some employees operating under his management? Nice.

And yes, Rupert Murdock and the rest are innocent until proven guilty for purposes of a court of law and cannot be punished by the state until their guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but in the court of public opinion Rupert Murdock and the rest are entitled to no such presumption. This is scumbaggery of the highest order and an affront to basic human decency. And while some of the acts are still "alleged," others are admitted and the fact that the News of the World has been shuttered should tell you a thing or two about the truth of the allegations.
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LMAO.... this was A DIVISION of the corporation.... one of hundreds.... for you to pretend that Murdoch knew what was happening in these instances is nothing short of absurd partisan bullshit....

News Corp holdings include:

Filmed Entertainment

20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blue Sky Studios
20th Century Fox Español
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Television
Fox Studios Australia
Fox Studios LA
Fox Television Studios
Shine Group

[edit] Television
[edit] Broadcast/Production assets

20th Century Fox Television
20th Television
Foxtel
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox International Channels
Fox International Channels Italy
Fox Sports Australia
Fox Telecolombia
Fox Television Stations
Fox Television Studios
Imedi Media Holding
Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija
MyNetworkTV
STAR TV
TV5 Rīga
British Sky Broadcasting (39%)

[edit] Cable Assets

Big Ten Network (49%)
Fox Business Network
Fox College Sports
Fox Movie Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Sports Enterprises
Fox Sports en Español
Foxtel (25%) -
Fox Sports Net
FUEL TV
FX Networks
Fox Reality Channel
National Geographic Channel (50%)
National Geographic Channel UK (50%)
Speed Channel
SportSouth
LAPTV (Latin America — co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC Universal)
Telecine (Brazil — co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios and DreamWorks);

[edit] Television Assets

BSkyB [United Kingdom] (39.1%)
Sky Deutschland [Germany](49.90%)
SKY Italia [Italy](100%)
SKY Network Television [New Zealand] (43.65%)
Foxtel [Australia] (25%)
Star TV [India & Greater China] (100%)
Tata Sky [India] (20%)

[edit] Internet

Fox Interactive Media
AmericanIdol.com
AskMen.com
Fox.com
Foxsports.com
GameSpy
Hulu.com
kSolo
IGN
MyNetworktv.com
NewRoo.com
Strategicdatacorp.com
Scout.com
SpringWidgets
WhatIfSports

News Digital Media
Slingshot Labs
Authonomy via HarperCollins
MySpace (5%)

[edit] Magazines and Inserts

All titles sourced from News Limited - NewsSource: Magazines on 15 October 2010.

Alpha
Australian Football Weekly
Australian Golf Digest
Australian Good Taste (with Woolworths)
Australian Parents (with Woolworths)
Best of the Gold Coast Magazine
Big League
Chopper
Country Style
delicious. (with the ABC)
donna hay
Gardening Australia (with the ABC)
GQ Australia
Inside Out
Lifestyle Pools + outdoor design
Live to Ride
MasterChef Magazine
Modern Boating
Modern Fishing
News America Marketing
Overlander 4WD
SmartSource
Super Food Ideas
Tattoo
Truck & Trailer Australia
Truckin' Life
Two Wheels
Two Wheels Scooter
Vogue Australia
Vogue Entertaining + Travel

[edit] Newspapers and Information Services
[edit] United Kingdom

News International

The Sun
News of the World (closed after a scandal on July 10th 2011)
The Times
Sunday Times
thelondonpaper (a free newspaper which closed in September 2009)

[edit] Australia

News Limited

[edit] Metropolitan newspapers, magazines and news distribution channels
[edit] National

The Australian including weekly insert magazine The Deal and monthly insert magazine (wish)[1]
The Weekend Australian including insert magazine The Weekend Australian Magazine[2]
Australian Associated Press (45%)
www.news.com.au National online news website

[edit] New South Wales

The Daily Telegraph[3]
The Sunday Telegraph including insert magazine sundaymagazine[4]
mX (Sydney)[5]

[edit] Victoria

Herald Sun[6]
Sunday Herald Sun including insert magazine sundaymagazine[7]
mX (Melbourne)[8]

[edit] Queensland

The Courier-Mail including weekly insert magazine QWeekend[9]
The Sunday Mail[10]
Brisbane News[11]

[edit] South Australia

The Advertiser including the monthly insert the Adelaide* magazine[12]
Sunday Mail[13]

[edit] Western Australia

The Sunday Times[14]

[edit] Tasmania

The Mercury[15]
The Sunday Tasmanian[16]

[edit] Northern Territory

Northern Territory News[17]
Sunday Territorian[18]

[edit] Community suburban newspapers
[edit] Sydney

Cumberland/Courier (NSW) newspapers[19]

Blacktown Advocate
Canterbury-Bankstown Express
Central
Central Coast Express Advocate
Fairfield Advance
Hills Shire Times
Hornsby and Upper North Shore Advocate
Inner West Courier
Liverpool Leader
Macarthur Chronicle
Mt Druitt-St Marys Standard
NINETOFIVE
North Shore Times
Northern District Times
NORTHSIDE
Parramatta Advertiser
Penrith Press
Rouse Hill Times
Southern Courier
The Manly Daily
The Mosman Daily
Village Voice Balmain
Wentworth Courier

[edit] Melbourne

Leader (Vic) newspapers[20]

Bayside Leader
Berwick/Pakenham Cardinia Leader
Brimbank Leader
Caulfield Glen Eira/Port Philip Leader
Cranbourne Leader
Dandenong/Springvale Dandenong Leader
Diamond Valley Leader
Frankston Standard/Hastings Leader
Free Press Leader
Heidelberg Leader
Hobsons Bay Leader
Hume Leader
Knox Leader
Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader
Manningham Leader
Maribyrnong Leader
Maroondah Leader
Melbourne Leader
Melton/Moorabool Leader
Moonee Valley Leader
Moorabbin Kingston/Moorabbin Glen Eira Leader
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader
Moreland Leader
Mornington Peninsula Leader
Northcote Leader
Preston Leader
Progress Leader
Stonnington Leader
Sunbury/Macedon Ranges Leader
Waverley/Oakleigh Monash Leader
Whitehorse Leader
Whittlesea Leader
Wyndham Leader

[edit] Brisbane

Quest (QLD) newspapers[21]

Albert & Logan News (Fri)
Albert & Logan News (Wed)
Caboolture Shire Herald
Caloundra Journal
City News
City North News
City South News
Ipswich News
Logan West Leader
Maroochy Journal
North-West News
Northern Times
Northside Chronicle
Pine Rivers Press/North Lakes Times
Redcliffe and Bayside Herald
South-East Advertiser
South-West News/Springfield News
Southern Star
The Noosa Journal
weekender
Westside News
Wynnum Herald
Weekender Essential Sunshine Coast

[edit] Adelaide

Messenger (SA) newspapers[22]

Adelaide Matters
City Messenger
City North Messenger
East Torrens Messenger
Eastern Courier Messenger
Guardian Messenger
Hills & Valley Messenger
Leader Messenger
News Review Messenger
Portside Messenger
Southern Times Messenger
Weekly Times Messenger

[edit] Perth

Community (WA) newspapers[23] (50.1%)

Advocate
Canning Times
Comment News
Eastern Reporter
Fremantle-Cockburn Gazette
Guardian Express
Hills-Avon Valley Gazette
Joondalup-Wanneroo Times
Mandurah Coastal / Pinjarra Murray Times
Melville Times
Midland-Kalamunda Reporter
North Coast Times
Southern Gazette
Stirling Times
Weekend-Kwinana Courier
Weekender
Western Suburbs Weekly

[edit] Darwin

Sun (NT) newspapers[24]

Darwin Sun
Litchfield Sun
Palmerston Sun

[edit] Regional and rural newspapers
[edit] New South Wales

Tweed Sun'

[edit] Victoria

Echo
Geelong Advertiser
GeelongNEWS
The Weekly Times

[edit] Queensland

Ayr Advocate
Bowen Independent
Cairns Sun
Gold Coast Bulletin
Gold Coast Sun
Herbert River Express
Home Hill Observer
Innisfail Advocate
Northern Miner
Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette
Tablelander - Atherton
Tablelands Advertiser
The Cairns Post
The Noosa Journal
Townsville Bulletin
Townsville Sun
weekender

[edit] Tasmania

Derwent Valley Gazette
Tasmanian Country

[edit] Northern Territory

Centralian Advocate


[edit] Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Post-Courier

[edit] United States

New York Post

Community Newspaper Group

The Brooklyn Paper
Courier-Life Publications
TimesLedger Newspapers
Bronx Times Reporter Inc.

[edit] International

Dow Jones & Company

Consumer Media Group

The Wall Street Journal - the leading US financial newspaper.
Wall Street Journal Europe
Wall Street Journal Asia
Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.
Marketwatch - Financial news and information website.
Far Eastern Economic Review
Financial News

Enterprise Media Group

Dow Jones Newswires - global, real-time news and information provider.
Factiva - provides business news and information together with content delivery tools and services.
Dow Jones Indexes - stock market indexes and indicators, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Dow Jones Financial Information Services — produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialised markets and industry sectors.
Betten Financial News — leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.

Local Media Group'

Dow Jones Local Media Group (formerly Ottaway Community Newspapers) - 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.

Strategic Alliances

STOXX (33%) - joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.
Vedomosti (33%) - Russia's leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).
SmartMoney (50%)
FiLife.com (50%)

[edit] Books

HarperCollins
HarperCollins India (40%) joint venture with India Today Group
Zondervan Publishing
Youth Specialties — organisation helping youth workers worldwide through training seminars and conventions, resources and the internet.
Inspirio — religious gift production.

[edit] Miscellaneous

National Rugby League (NRL) (50%)
Ansett Australia, Until 2000 (50%)
Fox Music
Jamba! - Mobile Entertainment/Mobile Handsets Personalisation/Games.
Maximedia Israel (67%)
Mosgorreklama (50%) - Russia sign and marketing material manufacturer
NDS Group (49%) - DRM and conditional access company.
 
I guess by that logic, next time any federal official does something you don't like, you'll give Obama a pass, right?
 
Damn Yankee said:
It looks to me that once Murdock found out about the situation he dealt with it swiftly and decisively, and let the ax fly and started heads rolling. Imagine where we'd be if, say, our federal legislatures dealt with rouge agencies under their control in this manner. We wouldn't have a $14 trillion national debt, be importing 60% of our oil, be taxing our corporations out of the country and be reeling under the biggest housing crisis in US history.
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He swiftly and decisively stonewalled and defended the executive in charge...



Rupert Murdoch put on an extraordinary show of support for Rebekah Brooks on Sunday, apparently unconcerned about her imminent interview under police caution.




Flying into London to take personal charge of the phone-hacking scandal, the billionaire flaunted his confidence in his News International chief executive.




Brooks, who has twice offered to resign over the controversy, was seen entering Murdoch's Mayfair apartment at around 5.30pm on Sunday.




Later, when asked what was his top priority, the 80-year-old media mogul gestured to Brooks. "She is," he replied.




The pair spent an hour in the apartment discussing the scandal on the day the final edition of the News of the World hit news stands.




Then, in front of hordes of photographers, Murdoch walked her out of the block of flats with his arm firmly around her.




They had beaming smiles as they crossed the road to the Stafford Hotel, where they were expected to dine together and were later joined by Murdoch's son, James, the chairman of News International.




Pictures of the ‘Rupert and Rebekah show' will infuriate the victims of phone hacking and those who question her denials.




The jovial scenes come just two days after Brooks, 43, warned News of the World staff that worse revelations about the newspaper were still to emerge.






http://gulfnews.com/news/world/uk/murdoch-shows-strong-support-for-brooks-1.837143




Dumb Yankee pwned again.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
How about that? Turns out Rupert Murdoch really is a soulless scumbag, devoid of morality.

Now the question becomes...how many supporters of Murdoch's various properties will now renounce the man and his despicable actions?

The phone hacking scandal widened on Monday, as new reports emerged that papers beyond the News of the World were also involved in criminal behavior. In addition, Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, looked to be in serious peril.

Multiple outlets reported that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to claim that several News International papers illegally obtained his personal details.

According to The Guardian, The Independent and the BBC, investigators working for the News of the World, The Sun and The Sunday Times obtained information about Brown's family, his legal, his financial and his medical records. This marks the first time that any allegations about News International have targeted papers outside the News of the World. The Sun allegedly received details about Brown's son, Fraser, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, when he was an infant, and wrote exclusive stories about his then-unknown illness. The Sunday Times allegedly posed as Brown to obtain his personal financial records. His bank, Abbey National, wrote to The Sunday Times charging that "someone from the Sunday Times or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as Mr Brown for the purpose of obtaining information from Abbey National by deception," according to the BBC.

SCROLL DOWN FOR THE LATEST UPDATES

News Corp apparently gave in to public pressure as well, issuing a statement asking for its bid to take over BSkyB to be referred to the Competition Commission and dropping its agreement to sell of Sky News as part of the bid. This means that any takeover will, at the very least, be delayed as regulators examine the "fitness" of News Corp to take over BSkyB.

Jeremy Hunt, the minister responsible for the handling of the bid, announced in the House of Commons on Monday that he will agree to this request.

All in all, the scandal surrounding Murdoch's British media empire has not lessened, even after the paper at the center of the controversy was closed for good.
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Dude, you got it backwards. Murdoch is the money man. It's Roger Ailes who runs Faux News and this controversy will have no impact on Faux News at all. In fact Faux News is doing swimmingly well from an economic stand point. It appears that shelling out right wing propaganda and telling wingnuts what they want to hear is way more cost affective then reporting real news. You don't have the expense of hiring large numbers of journalist nor the associated cost of having news bureaus around the nation and the world so that you can actually report news as and when it happens. Because Faux New really doesn't make any attempt to really report the news, let alone assure it's accuracy or actually investigate the news and stories to inform the public, it's costs to operate are a fraction of what other major news media outlets are and they are thus far more profitable.

Solid proof to the old maxim of H.L. Menken that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
 
You have no idea what's happening behind the scenes. All you have is what the MSM and some liberal bloggers feed you.
 
I guess Dumb Yankee doesn't know what's happening behind the scenes.


Here's what the MSM is feeding us now, and it indicates that Fox News' parent company may be in for a lil' probe.






Legal experts in the United States said News Corp could face scrutiny on this side of the Atlantic Ocean as U.S. officials probe whether any of the allegations, if proven true, violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.


That law makes it a crime for any company with U.S. ties to bribe foreign officials to obtain or retain business.


British media outlets reported that News of the World reporters bought phone details for the royal family from a security officer.


The Daily Mirror newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source, that News of the World reporters had also offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.


At a minimum, the News Corp would be at risk for violating laws on accurate accounting reporting if the bribes were paid, according to legal experts. News Corp shares trade on Nasdaq and the company files its financial reports with the SEC.






http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/newscorp-usa-bribery-idUSN1E76A1R320110711




Better get dancin, righties....Fox is under suspicion!



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Circle the wagons!
 
The man likes to make money and is very good at it. He has done so for such a long time because of his integrity. That means that he deserves the benefit of doubt. I'll let this thing run its course while you 'tards cry and scream. A month from now the truth will come out, but by then most of you will have had your heads so full of shit that there won't be any room for reality.

That is all.
 
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