Tales from China’s big media mogul love-inBig fan of the free press, China, recently hosted a summit for the world’s media moguls to get together and pat themselves on the back. Rupert Murdoch railed against free-riders, pirates and kleptomaniacs, while President Hu Jintao ironically called for more “truth” in media.
World Media Summit
Rupert the Sun King’s moral posture takes on a slouch
Over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch used some nasty language at the so-called World Media Summit in Beijing to slag off the likes of Google and Yahoo, describing them as content “kleptomaniacs” because they aggregate News Corporation’s content.
Crikey Says: What Murdoch thinks of the media
The latest piece of measured media commentary from Rupert Murdoch shows him declaring that “the Philistine phase of the digital age is almost over”. Is he making sense?
