CNN launches full-scale assault on Rupert Murdoch’s ankles

[Ragnar]

Look out, Rupert! TheDC’s Vince Coglianese reports: “No one is enjoying the British scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s media empire more than his American competitors. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are opening investigations into Murdoch’s media properties over accusations of cell phone hacking. CNN, which competes against Murdoch’s Fox News Channel, took a few minutes Thursday afternoon to focus on what the network sees as a budding boycott movement against the global media titan. ‘If you search the web right now for the terms ‘boycott Murdoch,’ you’ll find a bunch of social media sites dedicated to just that — boycotting media mogul Rupert Murdoch,’ host Randi Kaye said today on ‘CNN Newsroom…’ ‘So let’s take a look at the online ‘Boycott Murdoch’ movement,’ she continued, as a screenshot of a ‘Boycott Murdoch’ Twitter account splashed across the screen. The avatar image showed a grimacing Rupert Murdoch with a red ‘X’ over his face… A full 40 minutes after the segment aired, the ‘Boycott Murdoch’ Twitter account had gained 10 devoted followers, bringing its total reach to 873.” Wow. This could be the biggest CNN-fueled protest movement since the Coffee Party.

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[whitehall]

It ain't about competition. It's about political agenda. CBS tried to influence a presidential election with forged documents but CNN never considered a "budding boycot movement' against CBS even though it was a competitor. CBS fired anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes and the whole incident was forgotton and Rather is still invited to the best parties. They aren't going to let Murdoch off the hook because they hate FOX.

 

[uscitizen]

Australia is also trying to distance themselves from Murdoch and suggest investigating him.

And he was origionally an Aussie.

 

[waltky]

Like Granny says, "The bigger dey are, the harder dey fall...

Rupert Murdoch: His empire under attack, a media potentate stumbles
July 15, 2011 - The tawdry depths of the phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's media empire have shocked the UK public and exposed the heights of his political influence.

The New York Times was once described in worldly terms as "the kingdom and the power." But in recent decades the title applies more to the global empire of Rupert Murdoch, whose massive media octopus of $60 billion in assets spans Australia, China, Latin America, India, the United States, and Europe. In 2010, News Corp. earned $33 billion in revenue from Star TV in Hong Kong, Dow Jones in the US, and Sky TV and papers in London, to name a few. Mr. Murdoch's US-based Fox News network is described in a 2010 News Corp. report as "unstoppable."

Murdoch's clout is such that Tony Blair's first trip as British leader was to Australia for an audience with the mogul. If being feared is a requirement for British power, says Oxford writer Timothy Garton Ash, Murdoch has been more powerful than the previous three prime ministers. What News Corp. potentates did not count on was Milly Dowler.

The 13-year-old British girl murdered in 2002 had her voice mail hacked and messages erased by Murdoch's media operatives within his British newspaper arm News International. After a July 5 Guardian exposé revealed that News of the World (NotW), one of Murdoch's bestselling British tabloids, tampered with Milly's cellphone messages (leaving her family thinking she was alive), she posthumously became Murdoch's Mohamed Bouazizi – the young Tunisian vegetable vendor whose self-immolation in December sparked the Arab Spring.

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Rebekah Brooks' fall from grace
July 17, 2011 : The media titan - once head of Rupert Murdoch's UK operations - is now under criminal investigation for her role in the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Rebekah Brooks dined with Britain's prime minister over Christmas and got a public show of support from her boss Rupert Murdoch before the cameras this month as allegations of phone hacking on her watch mounted.
Now the 43-year-old U.K. media executive is a criminal suspect, her world of power and connections shattered by scandal. Brooks, who quit as head of Murdoch's British newspapers Friday, was arrested Sunday in a widening investigation into years of alleged phone hacking of hundreds of celebrities, politicians and even murder victims, as well as bribing police for information, at the now-shuttered tabloid News of the World.

The arrest sealed Brooks' swift transformation from one of Britain's most powerful female executives to a figure of scorn and even parody.
On Sunday, an Irish discount airline seized on perceptions of Brooks as an outlaw, placing an ad in The Observer newspaper that showed a photograph of the longtime Murdoch confidant, said to be so close to him that she was seen as family. "Hacked Off with High Fares... I'm outta here with Ryanair!" the caption crowed.

The implications of Brooks' arrest stretch far beyond her own circumstances, with questions about the extent to which the scandal rocking Britain's media establishment will dismantle the chain of command in Murdoch's business empire and erode the stature of Prime Minister David Cameron and other politicians who had once-cozy ties to the 80-year-old press baron. Another of Murdoch's chief executives, Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton, also had to resign Friday after more than 50 years with Murdoch. James Murdoch, head of European and Asian operations for his father's company, News Corp., is under increasing scrutiny. He and the senior Murdoch, along with Brooks, face questioning Tuesday by British lawmakers investigating the scandal.

Brooks has been at the center of the storm since the scandal broke.
Recognizable by a long shock of curly red hair, the 43-year-old Brooks was a loyal lieutenant of Murdoch and served as editor of the News of the World for part of the time when the tabloid's journalists allegedly hacked into telephone messages. Reports of illegal eavesdropping had percolated for years, but revelations that journalist had hacked into the voice mail of a 13-year-old murder victim, Milly Dowler, in 2002 caused a public uproar. The scandal was deemed toxic for the tabloid, and Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old newspaper. Brooks was vilified for initially clinging to her job while 200 other journalists lost theirs.

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[Zona]

Australia is also trying to distance themselves from Murdoch and suggest investigating him.

And he was origionally an Aussie.

Yup, an aussie....I wonder what the other big owner...the muslim...feels about this all.

Fox just sucks and I pray that entire organization gets shut down. Just like Acorn.

 

[Toronado3800]

Australia is also trying to distance themselves from Murdoch and suggest investigating him.

And he was origionally an Aussie.

Yup, an aussie....I wonder what the other big owner...the muslim...feels about this all.

Fox just sucks and I pray that entire organization gets shut down. Just like Acorn.

Very interesting and kudos to you.

Perhaps it is all the pent up anger from GE for being called a liberal media owner and defense contractor last decade making this rougher on Murdoch than the fall has to be. My toaster started telling me about Murdoch's evils lol.

 

[California Girl]

Australia is also trying to distance themselves from Murdoch and suggest investigating him.

And he was origionally an Aussie.

Yup, an aussie....I wonder what the other big owner...the muslim...feels about this all.

Fox just sucks and I pray that entire organization gets shut down. Just like Acorn.

Yea, freedom of speech is a bitch when you disagree with what's said.

Interesting that I've never seem a right winger want to close down any media outlet - no matter how much they lie.

 

[konradv]

Look out, Rupert! TheDC’s Vince Coglianese reports: “No one is enjoying the British scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s media empire more than his American competitors. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are opening investigations into Murdoch’s media properties over accusations of cell phone hacking. CNN, which competes against Murdoch’s Fox News Channel, took a few minutes Thursday afternoon to focus on what the network sees as a budding boycott movement against the global media titan. ‘If you search the web right now for the terms ‘boycott Murdoch,’ you’ll find a bunch of social media sites dedicated to just that — boycotting media mogul Rupert Murdoch,’ host Randi Kaye said today on ‘CNN Newsroom…’ ‘So let’s take a look at the online ‘Boycott Murdoch’ movement,’ she continued, as a screenshot of a ‘Boycott Murdoch’ Twitter account splashed across the screen. The avatar image showed a grimacing Rupert Murdoch with a red ‘X’ over his face… A full 40 minutes after the segment aired, the ‘Boycott Murdoch’ Twitter account had gained 10 devoted followers, bringing its total reach to 873.” Wow. This could be the biggest CNN-fueled protest movement since the Coffee Party.

Read more: DC Trawler | The Daily Caller

What's the difference between him and Soros, except that Soros donates to causes some don't like? You're just angry because Murdoch is getting hammered over things that are actual crimes, rather than Soros' imagined crimes, i.e. helping "lefty" organizations.

 

[xsited1]

 

[St.Blues]

It’s Been 800 Days Since Senate Democrats Passed A Budget


They will soon take refuge in Chicago, sound familiar?

 

[WillowTree]

Australia is also trying to distance themselves from Murdoch and suggest investigating him.

And he was origionally an Aussie.

Yup, an aussie....I wonder what the other big owner...the muslim...feels about this all.

Fox just sucks and I pray that entire organization gets shut down. Just like Acorn.

You are supposed to stfu about prayer or didn't you get the memo moron.

 

[MarcATL]

Look out, Rupert! TheDC’s Vince Coglianese reports: “No one is enjoying the British scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s media empire more than his American competitors. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are opening investigations into Murdoch’s media properties over accusations of cell phone hacking. CNN, which competes against Murdoch’s Fox News Channel, took a few minutes Thursday afternoon to focus on what the network sees as a budding boycott movement against the global media titan. ‘If you search the web right now for the terms ‘boycott Murdoch,’ you’ll find a bunch of social media sites dedicated to just that — boycotting media mogul Rupert Murdoch,’ host Randi Kaye said today on ‘CNN Newsroom…’ ‘So let’s take a look at the online ‘Boycott Murdoch’ movement,’ she continued, as a screenshot of a ‘Boycott Murdoch’ Twitter account splashed across the screen. The avatar image showed a grimacing Rupert Murdoch with a red ‘X’ over his face… A full 40 minutes after the segment aired, the ‘Boycott Murdoch’ Twitter account had gained 10 devoted followers, bringing its total reach to 873.” Wow. This could be the biggest CNN-fueled protest movement since the Coffee Party.

Read more: DC Trawler | The Daily Caller

WTF do you people expect?

This is BIG INTERNATIONAL news.

THE most powerful media mogul in history's companies are under allegations of MAJOR fraud.

Doesn't matter WHO it was, it would be this big and sensational.

What do you want?

Spell it out.

How much or how little should it be covered?

Would you feel the same and be making this same thread if it were say Soros involved?

Do you think the story is unimportant?

How important do YOU think it is that the media be beyond reproach?

 

[MarcATL]

This is how FOX intends to "report" on the scandal of their master:

Fox & Friends Covers News Corp. Scandal ... By Complaining About Media "Piling On" | Media Matters for America

The morning Peanut Gallery in full force.

I wonder how come Bill O'Reilly isn't calling for an interview with Roopurt.