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Obama Will Be Rupert Murdoch's Next Tony Blair

Lovable media mogul Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, has been going around predicting a landslide victory for the Democrats this November and also big-upping Senator Barack Obama-he called Obama a "superstar" and a "complete phenomenon" at a conference yesterday.

Rupert Murdoch's Newspaper War: WSJ vs. NYT

When readers open their newspapers Monday morning, they will discover a Wall Street Journal fashioned to the tastes of the man who revolutionized media markets from Australia to North America. With its increased focus on politics, international news, culture and sports, Murdoch's reconceived Journal represents nothing short of a formal declaration of war on that most venerable of journalistic institutions, The New York Times.

Microsoft Said to Be Talking With News Corporation About Joint Yahoo Bid

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corporation's MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.

Singing the News

Late last year, Rupert Murdoch stunned the business world when he appointed a 27 year old opera singer with no business or journalism experience to the board of News Corp. Now she wants to set the record straight.

Rupert Murdoch: serving God and Mammon

Rupert Murdoch has shown you can serve God and Mammon: he has bought Beliefnet, the largest online faith and spirtuality network.

Rupert Murdoch and the accidental director

Rupert Murdoch continues to rewrite the rules of corporate governance by appointing Natalie Bancroft, a 27-year old opera singer, to the News Corp board. With no experience in journalism and business, she has been put there to rubber-stamp Murdoch.

Mayne vs Murdoch

A persistent and effective Australian shareholder activist has forced Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to consider a motion at its next annual general meeting that would scrap News Corp's outrageous gerrymander system of Class A and Class B shares that ensure Murdoch stays in control with only 15 per cent of the equity.

Murdoch: After the WSJ, what's next?

Now that he has The Wall Street Journal, what's next for Rupert Murdoch?

Rupert Murdoch takes over Wall Street Journal

The takeover of Dow Jones & Company by Rupert Murdoch s News Corporation was finalized late Tuesday evening. The $5 billion deal will add the Wall Street Journal and other assets to Murdoch s worldwide media empire and lead to a further concentration of the media in the hands of a few super-rich individuals and vast conglomerates.

Rupert Murdoch and the WSJ

With Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones on a knife-edge , the pros and cons of the prospective takeover need to be examined. And the negatives are worrying. This takeover is certainly in Murdoch's interests but it's not in the public's because it will mean the loss of another voice.

Murdoch faces tough battle for Dow's WSJ

FOX News owner Rupert Murdoch now wants to control the one newspaper that tells the truth: the Wall Street Journal. In a bid to control all of the world's major media, mr. Murdoch is facing serious opposition from teh family that owns the WSJ. After FOX News, is it safe for Murdoch, a foreign national, to own so much U.S. media and communication rights? Why is this not consider a breech of national security? Especially in light iof the documented fact that Mr. Murdoch is an avowed far-right a

O.J. Simpson book, TV special canceled - Celebrity News

Belated but welcome change: I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project, said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. We are sorry for any pain that his has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.

OJ confession: now US turns on Murdoch

A wave of revulsion and open criticism, reaching a climax this weekend, has swept America in the wake of revelations that Simpson intends to capitalise on the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman with a book and TV 'confession' in a 1.8 million deal brokered by Murdoch-owned companies.

The Smell of Desperation?

Rupert Murdoch's NY Post is (trying) be belittle and smear Keith Olbermann. Cute.

Crazy Like a Fox?

A number of people have expressed bewilderment at the news that Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Fox News Channel, has agreed to host a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. So what does all this mean? Has Murdoch really changed teams? Possibly. But isn't there a more obvious explanation? Murdoch is, after all, a businessman. Could anything possibly be better for Fox News than a Hillary Clinton presidency?