Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Get The Web. So Why’s He Talking About It?
News Corp. shareholders, be afraid. The more Rupert Murdoch talks about his company’s digital strategy, the clearer it becomes that he doesn’t understand what it is he’s talking about.
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How a Sale by Zuckerman Could Buy Murdoch’s Backing for Senate
Mort Zuckerman would like to have more say in government. Rupert Murdoch would like to stop losing money on the New York Post. Their problems may have a common solution. Could selling Murdoch the Daily News garner Zuckerman his fellow mogul’s backing for a bid for a U.S. Senate seat?
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Murdoch to Washington: Stay out of the way, but please help
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Rupert Murdoch is sending mixed signals. Under no circumstances does he think the federal government ought to step in and help float newspaper publishers through their current difficulties. But the key to the future solvency of news organizations lies, he suggests, in government hands.
Confused yet?
Murdoch spoke Tuesday morning at a conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Federal Trade Commission titled “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” The News Corp. (NWS) chairman reiterated his longstanding opposition to federal ownership of or subsidies for media companies.
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Microsoft, Murdoch talk team-up to freeze Google out of online news
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Can Microsoft (MSFT) gain much needed market share for its Bing search engine by signing a deal with News Corp. (NWS) and other news publishers to remove their web pages from the Google (GOOG) search index and give Bing an exclusive on links to The Wall Street Journal? That’s the kernel of an argument which has been gaining traction online in the past month.
Certainly, such an arrangement is legal and possible. Google allows sites to opt-out of the index and even explains how to do this on its website. Whether the maneuver would actually work is a far trickier question. Sentiments remain mixed, with some observers saying freezing out Google would have zero effect on the search giant, but might harm the newspapers by reducing their traffic. After all, WSJ.com has remained behind a paid subscription wall since its inception.
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Relax, people: Here’s what Murdoch really said about charging for news
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Jeez, is it really that slow a news week?
Sure, Rupert Murdoch made some news on News Corp.’s fiscal-year-end earnings call yesterday, declaring that the company will adopt pay models for all its news websites by this time next year, including the websites of Fox News, the Sun and News of the World.
But Murdoch certainly didn’t say what a lot of people, including Newser’s Michael Wolff and reporters for the Financial Times, seem to think he said: to wit, that all of the content on those sites will henceforth cost readers money to access.
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MySpace is not for sale, a bearish Murdoch says in Sun Valley
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Rupert Murdoch says he won’t sell MySpace, doesn’t want to buy Twitter and is still bearish about the economy.
Not one to shy away from a microphone, Murdoch spoke to media outlets during the Allen & Co.’s Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The event attracts current technology celebrities such as Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and even non-tech celebs, such as NBA superstar LeBron James.
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Phone hacking scandal a major headache for Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch has always shown a remarkable ability to shrug off public relations problems with seemingly genuine indifference. This impressive skill is being tested as the mounting furor over illegal mobile phone hacking by Murdoch-employed journalists is turning into one of the biggest PR catastrophes he’s ever faced.
The details of the scandal, first reported by the Guardian, are truly astonishing. England’s hyper-aggressive dailies are never more bloodthirsty than when they smell a chance to embarrass one another, and rival journalists have been quick to splash the sordid details in their papers. According to reports, private investigators employed by the Sun and the News of the World used deceptive techniques, including one known as “blagging,” to gain access to thousands of mobile phones owned by actors, athletes, politicians and other celebrities. The investigators were able to obtain addresses, criminal records, call logs, tax records, bank statements and other data that should have been protected by Britain’s privacy laws. Some 31 journalists who have worked for the two papers are individually implicated.
In an attempt to keep all this from going public, Murdoch’s company, News Corp., allegedly paid over $1.5 million in settlements with three victims on the condition that they keep silent. Thanks to the Guardian, however, that attempt has failed, and British law-enforcement authorities have opened an investigation into the hacking charges.
Murdoch claims he doesn’t know anything about the settlements; perhaps a $1.5 million payment isn’t the sort of thing that would get the chairman’s attention at a $21 billion conglomerate. But that $1.5 million could multiply many times over by the time this is all finished. For reasons that are unclear, the Metropolitan Police initially declined to notify those whose phones were compromised. Now that the evidence is surfacing, it “may open the door to hundreds more legal actions by victims of News Corp.,” reports the Guardian.
Regardless, the scandal could truncate the career of one rising News Corp. star. The editor of the Sun at the time of the alleged hacking was Rebekah Wade, who was recently promoted to CEO of News International, News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper arm. Wade’s former deputy at the Sun, Andy Coulson, was forced to resign his job as editor of News of the World after one of his reporters was jailed for a similar phone-hacking incident. Will Wade step down if it emerges that she knew, or should have known, that journalists under her command broke the law? Or will Murdoch display his characteristic disregard for public opinion and keep her on?
he full police file shows that several thousand public figures were targeted by investigators, including, during one month in 2006: John Prescott, then deputy prime minister; Tessa Jowell, then responsible for the media as secretary of state for culture; Boris Johnson, then the Conservative spokesman on higher education; Gwyneth Paltrow, after she had given birth to her son; George Michael, who had been seen looking tired at the wheel of his car; and Jade Goody.
This included 23 illegal searches of the DVLA for the details behind car number plates; two illegal searches of police databases for criminal records; five illegal searches of phone company records to convert a mobile number into a private address; and three requests for illegal access to records of ex-directory phone numbers.
When the actress Charlotte Coleman died after an asthma attack, the News of the World paid for BT to be conned into handing over the itemised Friends and Family list from her bereaved parents’ phone bill.
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Rupert Murdoch denies he’s interested in the New York Times
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is shooting down speculation that he is interested in acquiring his nemesis The New York Times Co. (NYT).
Speaking to TheStreet.com, the News Corp. (NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch denied reports by Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolff that he covets what he views as the symbol of liberal mainstream media. A combination of the Times and Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has been discussed ever since the tycoon snapped up the paper’s parent company, Dow Jones & Co., for $5.6 billion in 2007.
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