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    • Singing the News

      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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      Mayne vs Murdoch

      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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      Rupert Murdoch and the WSJ

      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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    SoxFirst

    Member since Aug 2008

    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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    theangryindian

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    “The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.

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