News Corp downgraded on threat from ‘Powerful Enemies’
Apparently they really are out to get Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation. Who would have guessed. Analysts from Needham & Co have downgraded News Corp from a buy to a hold on the basis that...
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Welcome to the face of the new smaller BBC #dqf
Doubly sad news today as the BBC has announced that it will cut 2000 jobs by 2017 and still isn’t closing BBC Three. That channel has friends in high places. But more seriously, these are very large...
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BSkyB accused of playing politics as it prepares axe for Current TV UK
There is something of a row brewing between BSkyB and the liberal current affairs station CurrentTV, which was founded by former vice president Al Gore, after Sky said it was to pull the station from...
View ArticleHow News International hid the phone-hacking scandal
After News International yesterday paid out what is expected to be a healthy seven figure sum to 37 phone hacking victims, who had been targeted by the News of the World, high court judge, Mr Justice...
View ArticleMurdoch denies Sun on Sunday launch is on hold
Yesterday it was being reported that the launch of the Sun on Sunday, slated for April, was on hold following the arrest of four Sun journalists at the weekend. That was the claim made by a report in...
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Should Rupert Murdoch sell the Sun?
Another weekend another clutch of Sun journalists have been arrested. This time five were arrested and bailed “over allegations of inappropriate payments to police”. The infection that quickly killed...
View ArticleMurdoch tells staff Sun on Sunday will launch soon
Rupert Murdoch is understood to have told staff in an email, circulated before he addressed them (see below), that News Corporation is planning to launch the Sun on Sunday very soon. He told staff: “We...
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Sun on Sunday to launch on Sunday, big sales expected
Last week Rupert Murdoch told us that the Sun on Sunday will launch very soon. He wasn’t kidding. Last night the news broke that The Sun on Sunday will launch this coming Sunday, February 26. The...
View ArticleMiliband pressure sees Labour peer pull out of Sun on Sunday column
Maurice Glasman, the Labour peer and one time strategic advisor to Ed Miliband has pulled out of plans to write a weekly political column for the Sun on Sunday after words with the Labour leader. That...
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Sun heavily criticised for mocking Roy Hodgson’s speech impediment on its...
On the day after Rupert Murdoch was declared “not fit” to have “stewardship of a major international company”, and he sent an email to staff, in which he said the report by the parliamentary committee...
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