Mastercard this week confirmed it would be maintaining its blockade of WikiLeaks, but no word on that company actually charged with hacking, News International….
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Media briefs: News cuts … WikiLeaks snub … Amasian Linsanity …
News Limited CEO Kim Williams is poised to eliminate 100 middle managers and back-office staff from the ailing media giant as Rupert Murdoch puts the squeeze on his antipodean operation to slim its bloated ranks. Plus other media news.
Media briefs: Nine goes Vegas … News’ phone-hack bill … Russia radio shake-up …
Nine News puts up a photo of Las Vegas’ New York casino on a story about the actual city of New York. Plus other media news of the day.
Rundle: to hell with The Sun, let it rot
Having debased the profession, News now demands solidarity from the media in the name of free speech. Let it rot, writes Guy Rundle from London. The UK would be better for it.
Crikey Says: The Sun will never set on Rupert
There’s just no way Rupert Murdoch would kill his baby, the red top that’s by far and away his best-selling paper, the 10th biggest-selling paper in the world with a whopping 2.7 million in circulation.
Tweeting Rupert skips earnings grilling from analysts, hacks
For the second straight quarter, News Corp’s executive chairman and controlling shareholder Rupert skipped the quarterly earnings call with analysts and journalists this morning.
How about a Rupert tweet on Sir Rod’s surprise gong?
The fact that Rupert Murdoch has board approval to tweet away is surprising, if only because it is amazing that he still holds a leadership position at News Corp.
The waters of Data Pool 3 may yet swallow Rupert himself
The scandal that continues to swell around Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the United Kingdom features all the trappings of a flood that keeps breaking through hastily built barriers to wreak new inundations, writes David Ritter from London.
News settles phone-hacking payouts, but story still has legs
Any hope that paying out big money will help end the trouble is surely misplaced.
Media briefs: News’ new law … NT News and Homer … Age’s ad love …
New legal advice for News Corp … NT News channels Homer … The Age’s advertising love … Front Page of the Day … Leveson inquiry: Sun editor gets a light grilling …
Political snippets: No mad shopping spree for Aussies
Australians certainly did not go on an early pre-Christmas shopping spree.
A Christmas message from Rupert Murdoch (really)
Wow! What a year of events, good and bad, marvels Rupert Murdoch. (This is real.)
Murdoch, Baillieu and Morgan: a story of old Melbourne families
Melbourne marked an interesting milestone last week.
Media briefs: Col Allan return? … Hun’s risque Quiz Master … AFR revolution …
Col Allan’s return to earth … Herald Sun’s %#@% of a Quiz Master. … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … AFR launches “revolution” campaign and tells readers: We weren’t good enough …
Political snippets: A little Murdoch corporate welfare
The eagle eye of my colleague Glenn Dyer noticed this little report in The Sydney Morning Herald: “News Corp takes Tax Office to task over $2b losses”.
On Murdoch’s News Corp share sale, timing is everything
As any investor knows timing in investment is everything, just ask Rupert Murdoch and his new big shareholder, the aggressive US hedge funder, John Paulson.
James Murdoch escapes, but leaves many hostages
News International chair James Murdoch is either a liar or an utterly incompetent executive. Those are the only two conclusions you can take away from his evidence to the House of Commons select committee.
Record protests as News Corp shareholders get rankings dead right
The News Corporation votes are in and the record protest votes have duly been delivered. Records were smashed with as much as 80% of the independent shareholders voting to remove the Murdoch boys.
News Corp AGM: no doddery old men, or foam pies
Rupert Murdoch was pretty fast and combative, much better than the doddery old man at the parliamentary committee.
The most dramatic News Corp AGM since Maxwell came to town
For those Australians who like to rise early, set the alarm for 4am on Saturday and then go here to register for the webcast of what should be a cracking 2011 News Corporation AGM.
Hun comments reveal: News Corp 4th worst performer in ASX50
The short-term performance of News Corp might look OK, but a longer-term horizon tells a very different story.
Political snippets: An opportunity missed.
If the Labor Government really does believe that using Nauru to process boat people would not work as a deterrent to people smugglers then why the hell didn’t it agree with Tony Abbott’s proposed legislative amendment?
Circulation scandals at News Corp
Boosting newspaper circulation is hardly a new thing, but in terms of cheating the numbers News Corp is in a league of its own, writes Frédéric Filloux.
Crikey Says: Another wheel falls off Murdoch train wreck
Should it surprise anyone that the corporate culture that produced industrial-scale phone hacking in Britain was also at work elsewhere? Hardly.
The power of Rupert: AMP wimps it on News Corp
So why did AMP, which manages $158 billion of investments, pull its punches on News Corp?
