]> http://www.blabaloo.com/tags/rupert-murdoch Blog Articles Tagged with 'rupert-murdoch' at http://www.blabaloo.com en http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1146069?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch The financial reports of the New York Times Co. yesterday were predictably awful. Print ad revenue was cratering even before the stock market collapsed, so it's hard to see any turnaround in the near future. And as if the economy itself isn't giving ... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:13:35 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1146069?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1145581?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Pat Buchanan's defending Hillary Clinton, the Guardian is scooping on U.S. political news, and now this, perhaps the ultimate WTF moment in media this week: Lefty, anti-corporate folksinger Ani DiFranco performed two songs for Wall Street Journal ed... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:28 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1145581?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1145405?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Oh, how sweet it is: as Fox News Channel re-ups their contract with president Roger Ailes for another five years, FNC's VP David Rhodes is hopping-along-Cassidy to Bloomberg Media to head up their television division. What, Fox didn't sweeten the mon... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:57:57 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1145405?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlla/1145438?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Roger Ailes, whom Rupert Murdoch brought in to weave his Republican-istic web around Fox News, has signed on for a five-year extension to his contract, the Los Angeles Times reported.That means we're in for five more years of such pleasant closeted l... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:46:05 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlla/1145438?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/defamer/1144839?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch We can't help but wonder if each airing will be the last for our colorful, quirky friend Pushing Daisies. Even Rupert Murdoch has caught the PD fever, as the Post is imploring all y'all to at least TiVo tonight's show. But that'll mean you won't be a... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:28:48 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/defamer/1144839?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1144601?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Bald Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff isn't afraid to be asked the tough questions. That's why 10 lucky winners will be pulled from the Internet to ask Michael Wolff questions about media, life, and his new biography on media mogul Rupert Mu... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:32:45 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1144601?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1143738?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Somewhere, Jeff Jarvis is cackling maniacally right now. It was only a week ago that the new media guru chastised all his former colleagues in print journalism for whining about the death of ink. And then bipartisan author Ron Rosenbaum got involved,... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:23:21 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1143738?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlny/1143479?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Wishful thinking (he did after all cough up a whole lot of dough for the WSJ not that long ago, you may recall) or does Rupert Murdoch actually know what he's talking about? (We sort of suspect he does,) Rupe spoke to the future of print at a recen... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:12:13 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlny/1143479?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1143253?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch The New York Times is finally catching up to the rest of the class in speculating that conservative Rupert Murdoch is a closet Obama fan, despite the fact that his New York Post, up until recently, supported John McCain with every ounce of its trashy... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:16:40 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1143253?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlny/1143171?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Today's New York Times is speculating whether Rupert Murdoch has a soft spot for Barack Obama. Anyone who keeps up with the New York Post can't help but be aware that the Senator and now President-elect has rarely been subject to the infamous (and e... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:57:32 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlny/1143171?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1143110?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's useless media critic whose column is the actual physical manifestation of conventional wisdom, is upset. About Obama! Specifically, about the fact that every newspaper and magazine and TV network has decided that... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:29:32 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1143110?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1142963?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Amid all the hair-pulling over magazine and newspaper layoffs, Rupert Murdoch's speech broadcast in Australia Sunday sounds bracing: Too many journalists ...misguided cynics who are too busy writing their own obituary to be excited by the opport... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:57:41 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1142963?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlla/1142417?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Murdoch Golden Boy and News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin is on the fence about his future with the company, the L.A. Times reports.Chernin has had dinner with his boss Rupert Murdoch twice in the last month to discuss his future. He's not su... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:29:53 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlla/1142417?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1141168?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch It's not that Shep Smith has suddenly had a liberal change of heart. The Fox News Channel anchor was shouting about his ideological independence back in January. It's that Smith seems to have become more vigorous and visible lately about setting hims... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:58:55 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1141168?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlla/1140941?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch WaPo columnist Harold Meyerson wrote an open letter to Fox News who suddenly seems...uhm...as unpopular as their president...George Bush not Rupert Murdoch...well maybe both:In that sense, your work remains dangerous and disintegrative to the nation.... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:08:08 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlla/1140941?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlny/1140702?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch FishbowlNY.com just received a memo sent by The Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson announcing the appointment of Gerard Baker as deputy editor of WSJ and Dow Jones.Gerard, who had been U.S. editor and assistant editor of The Times of ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:47 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/mediabistrocom-fishbowlny/1140702?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1139840?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal is going synergytastic with a new partner. Nope, not Sam Zell and his Tribune printing plants, although that's still going to happen.No, the WSJ, bitchslapped by the reality of falling sales and rising costs, is j... Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:43:30 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1139840?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1139551?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch It's funny that Rupert Murdoch's response to a vague question about expected losses for Fox Business Network would result in such, uh, straight-shootedness. We can talk pretty honestly about it. It will probably cost us best part of $60 millio... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:38:01 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1139551?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1139531?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch The FT, the Western world's last remaining respected financial paper not owned by Rupert Murdoch, has unveiled an early version of the redesign of its website's homepage. And we'll be damned if it doesn't look way more like a blog than like a traditi... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:58:15 -0500 http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/gawker/1139531?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch http://www.blabaloo.com/sectors/directory/jossip/1139454?rsstype=tag&tag=rupert-murdoch Watch CBS Videos Online 60 Minutes wasn't all Chinese e-waste fights this week. There was also a short profile about media person Ted Turner, and how he doesn't hate Rupert Murdoch anymore and sometimes they lunch together. On human blood. Because th... 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