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Comments to date: 25. This is page 1 of 2.  | Maureen Davies Somerton Park SA 5044 Au | Posted at 6:55pm on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | How do I subscribe to the Sunday Mail (Adelaide) on line?
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 12:50pm on Monday, August 23, 2010 | Viacom Digital Boss Greg Clayman Headed to Rupert Murdoch’s iPad Newspaper
-- The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital reported on August 22, 2010:
"Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-friendly digital newspaper doesn’t have a launch date or a name yet, but it is hiring. News Corp. has tapped Greg Clayman, who runs digital distribution for Viacom, to run the new publication’s business operations, multiple sources tell me.
For some reason, News Corp. people (who also own this site), don’t like to use the word “newspaper” to describe their plans for the news…thing. But as earlier reports have detailed, the idea is to create a subscription-based digital news service, designed expressly for mobile platforms like Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android phones and upcoming tablets.
New York Post Executive Editor Jesse Angelo will oversee the service’s editorial role. And if you did call this thing a newspaper, you could call Clayman the publisher.
For now, Clayman’s old job will be handled by a group of his deputies, Viacom said in an internal memo announcing Clayman’s departure (but not his destination) last week."
The full story:
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100822/exclusive-viacom-digital-boss-greg-clayman-headed-to-rupert-murdochs-ipad-newspaper/
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 3:02pm on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | News Corp. Defends $1 Million Donation to Republican Governors Association
-- The Washington Post reported on August 18, 2010:
"Rupert Murdoch, who has never been shy about making his political views known, has voted with his sizable checkbook.
Murdoch's News Corp. has made a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association, triggering swift criticism from Democrats that a contribution of that magnitude casts a shadow on his media properties, particularly Fox News.
"For a media company -- particularly one whose slogan is 'fair and balanced' -- to be injecting themselves into the outcome of races is stunning," Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, said Tuesday. "The people owning Fox News have made a decision that they want to see Democratic governors go down to defeat. It's a jaw-dropping violation of the boundary between the media and corporate realm."
Jack Horner, a spokesman for News Corp., said in an interview: "It's patently false that a corporate donation would have any bearing on our news-gathering activities at Fox News or any other of our properties."
The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081704338.html
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gava cho SLT, USA | Posted at 5:12am on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | I think it is a good thing that he is removing his properties from the internet. This move will probably lead to their failure which I cheer. There will be less dumbing down of the world from the steady diet of airhead trash his companies produce, and less availability of censored, distorted, and falsified "news".
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rafael marquez montgomery al | Posted at 10:13am on Thursday, March 4, 2010 | a lot of fans of the (WWE)are mad as will as i for over a year my 67 stop airing wwe smackdown but from time to time you will see clip for smackdow and they will say fri 7/8 this is notright i am saking for help can someone put it back it back on tv and not play games with us
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mike orourke bunbury | Posted at 5:40am on Sunday, February 7, 2010 | thanks for really screwing up your tv guide just as the west was sorting theirs out . last times i will buy, extra copy of the west for me from now on
Mike
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Joan Los Angeles | Posted at 2:21am on Thursday, January 28, 2010 | Rupert Murdoch owns the Murdoch Children's research Institute in Australia that conducted the first guinea pig swine flu trials on young children. His son James is on the board at SmithKlineBeecham. His mother runs the Victoria's women's hospital in Melbourne. These people are all about population control and genocide. Injecting poisons into our bodies with these vaccinations, that cause diseases, like cancers. People wake up before it's too late! Read more at FluScamdotcom
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Judy Miner IL U. S. | Posted at 6:49am on Friday, January 1, 2010 | If I thought for a moment that FOX was about to go bankrupt, I'd say, "Okay, there's a need to raise fees to cable companies.
But, I'm sure that isn't the case. What it is is just a case of greed.
I support all those who are fighting this extortion. I don't really care to pay for someones big bonus---I think everyone in the USA has had enough of that scam.
I've already bought all I need to get the station (FOR FREE) so I can tape all shows I want off FOX and watch later.
I suggest that EVERYONE do the same.
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:41pm on Thursday, November 19, 2009 | For Rupert Murdoch, the Internet does not exist, at least according to Michael Wolff, writing at Newser on November 10, 2009:
"Rupert continues his war with the Internet. Over the weekend, he told an interviewer (the interviewer, on Sky News Australia, works for him) that as part of his campaign to charge users for reading his content, what he plans to do is to block Google from indexing his newspapers.
As of a year ago, Murdoch had never used Google—never once, by himself, run an Internet search—and so it might be reasonable to assume he doesn’t know what’s involved here.
It is quite possible he doesn’t realize—and can’t fathom—that removing News Corp.’s newspapers from Google means that, in the largest part of the information market, they would cease to count, cease to be a factor, that their absence would not register as a hole.
Nor, it is possible, does he realize that as much as 90% of his traffic comes from Google and other search engines, that even if his goal is to sell content, there is really no other way to direct people to it than through search engines."
The full story:
www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/329/rupert-murdoch-the-internet-does-not-exist.html
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:17pm on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | News Corporation is shutting down The London Paper, a free tabloid in the British city, Reuters reported on August 20, 2009:
"The News Corporation, the publishing empire controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Thursday that it would close its money-losing free afternoon tabloid, The London Paper, ending a three-year battle for young commuters.
Mr. Murdoch’s son James, head of the News Corporation in Europe and Asia, said the company planned to close the newspaper after it posted a pretax loss of about $21 million for the year, after an advertising slump.
The paper started three years ago, covering sports, local news and celebrities, to compete against a rival free publication, London Lite, and a paid newspaper, The London Evening Standard."
The full story:
www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/business/media/21paper.html
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frank baca kanab utah usa | Posted at 6:18pm on Monday, August 24, 2009 | please send the single for mytv to kanab utah we used to get it now we dont soooon
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:36pm on Thursday, August 13, 2009 | Rupert Murdoch wants you to pay to read his news online, Michael Wolff wrote at Newser on August 6, 2009:
"Is Rupert Murdoch too old to matter? In the face of the worst downturn in the history of the newspaper business—what everybody except Rupert believes is a structural rather than cyclical decline—he bought the Wall Street Journal, built the world’s largest newspaper printing plant just outside of London, and is still talking about buying the New York Times. Yesterday, his company, News Corp., posted the biggest losses in its history. In response, my Uncle Rupert—who as recently as a year ago, when we last spoke, had yet to go, unassisted, onto the Internet—announced that he would shortly make his newspapers available online only if you paid for them.
Well, I'll say this, he’s swimming against the tide.
His uphill fight is probably even greater than it might appear. Not only is he, among all media executives, the most technically disinclined (actually, totally illiterate), but his company, of all the big media enterprise, is the most technically backward and maladroit. He may now employ more reporters than anyone else in the world, but they use the oldest computers. He may have some of the world’s most trafficked news sites, but they are also the slowest and most inept. Technology, at News Corp., has always been regarded as one of those things, like fancy hotels, or long-form writing, that are not part of the company culture."
The full story:
www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/231/this-is-ruperts-last-stand-making-you-pay.html
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Gerri Ballas Portland, Oregon, USA | Posted at 10:03pm on Monday, July 20, 2009 | Spanish TV: I would like to know why we don't have the Spanish TV channels using English sub-titles.
It would be a very educational experience for all - the American to learn Spanish and the Spanish to learn English.
Why isn't this happening on American TV? Thank you.
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John D Kelley ( Jack ) Portsmouth, NH USA | Posted at 7:18pm on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | WE WISH WE HAD A REAL NEWSPAPER IN THIS CITY. THE PORTSMOUTH HERALD LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED.HAVING SPENT NEARLY FORTY YRS IN THE TV PROGRAM AND MEDIA SALES BIZ I WORKED WITH NEARLY ALL THE STATIONS IN THE US AND READ LOTS OF LOCAL PAPERS WHILE WAITING FOR MY FLT. THE HERALD IS EXTREMELY LIBERAL,VERY BIASED. RUPERT, PLEASE HELP!!! JACK KELLEY
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Scott Bowers North Carolina | Posted at 6:51pm on Sunday, May 17, 2009 | If your so fair and balanced how come you keep trying to push a POINT OF VIEW instead of reporting the news?
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CWATTS Laurel, MS | Posted at 10:57am on Thursday, March 19, 2009 | Sick and tired of stupid male enhancement commercials. Trying to watch tv with my two teenage daughters becomes uncomfortable for everyone in the house when those stupid "THIS COULD BE FUN". You'd think these stupid idots controlling commercials could wait at least until 9pm to air them, but nooooo. They come on all day and night. My 5 year old daughter turns to her daddy and says "Do you need male enhancement?" I can't watch FOX now or I have to change channels during commercials. You should be sued for this garbage.
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dave london | Posted at 9:29am on Thursday, March 19, 2009 | YEP, TOO MANY BREAKS, BREAKS TOO LONG, SAME ADVERTS SHOWN IN BREAK, SOUND TOO LOUD DURING AD BREAKS. BRITISH TV IS GETTING JUST AS BAD AS AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN TV - SOON NO-ONE WILL WATCH IT AND JUST LISTEN TO THE RADIO!
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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:41pm on Monday, February 23, 2009 | February 22, 2009: From the New York Times article "Murdoch's Soft Spot for Print Slows News Corp.:"
"Mr. Murdoch, as much old-fashioned press baron as 21st century multimedia mogul, faces a depressing reality: his lifelong fondness for newspapers has become a significant drag on the fortunes of his company, the News Corporation.
The company recently took $8.4 billion in write-downs, including $3 billion on its newspaper unit, which includes The Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones & Company. Meanwhile, the News Corporation’s stock price has fallen by two-thirds in the last year, a sharper decline than at media conglomerate peers like Time Warner and Viacom.
In more vibrant economic times, investors and Wall Street analysts were more willing to look past Mr. Murdoch’s attachment to newspapers — the newspaper segment is now the company’s biggest single source of revenue, about 19 percent in the most recent quarter. But they find that a tougher chore these days, as other media struggle and newspapers suffer through their worst slump since the Depression.
“The thing I hear from investors is that they wish News Corp. was everything but newspapers,” said David C. Joyce, media analyst at Miller Tabak & Company.
“Investors are more forgiving when they are in a better mood,” he said. “The hope for a turnaround in the newspaper business is looking elusive.”
The declining economy and the sinking fortunes of print publications have placed in stark relief Mr. Murdoch’s love of newspapers and his deal to acquire Dow Jones just before the recession set in. Mr. Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of the News Corporation, paid more than $5 billion for an asset that generated about $100 million in operating income last year, a price that now looks like a staggering overpayment. Mr. Murdoch declined to comment for this article."
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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:52pm on Sunday, February 8, 2009 | On February 5, 2009, the Associated Press reported that News Corporation lost a bundle in its latest quarter:
"News Corp., the global media giant controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Thursday it lost $6.4 billion in its most recent quarter because of a massive write-down in the value of its assets.
The New York-based company, which owns The Wall Street Journal and the Fox broadcast network, also forecast a 30 percent drop in operating profits for the fiscal year to June from a year ago, when it earned $5.13 billion.
News Corp. shares shed 55 cents, or 7.4 percent, to $6.90 in after-hours trading.
Murdoch, the chief executive who controls more than a third of the company's shares, blamed the bleak outlook on falling advertising revenue and the impact of weak consumer sentiment on DVD and book sales."
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nadine Peich chino ca | Posted at 3:25pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | who is responsible for controlling the VOLUME?? go ahead and lay back and relax at nite to a movie and then when the commercial comes on YIKES toooooooo loud. Jeeez get control will you? I can hear it going up in volume as soon as it comes on,i turn in down our mute then i cant hear the movie when it comes back on.It would wake anyone up in the house trying to sleep while iam watching in another room. STOP IT PLEASE**** PS too many commercials as well,way to many.....Its time we take back what we want in tv....
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