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Rupert Murdoch
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Massive: Secret Recording Busts Rupert Murdoch Raging Against The Police
04 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you ready to hear the media mogul Rupert Murdoch like never before? On Wednesday a recording of Rupert Murdoch’s private opinions was obtained by the Exaro website and broadcast on Channel 4 News. The tape brought the public the 82-year-old’s thoughts on the scandal that took over his empire. From the “totally incompetent” cops that were […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
02 Jul 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Snowden’s name appears in lingerie ad as he applies for Russia asylum. Murdoch’s News Corp splits. Egypt’s military gives president 48 hours. Shrien Dewani is ready to return. What’s Pearl Jam up to?
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Rupert Murdoch Will Be Divorcing His Wife, Wendi Deng
14 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Media mogal, Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from wife, Wendi Deng. After months of speculation in the media, the billionaire and his controversial spouse decided to call it quits on Thursday.
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Old Media Billionaires Versus New Media Billionaires – Who Makes Their Money Fastest? [INFOGRAPHIC]
26 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It took Rupert Murdoch 40 years to get to $1 billion, Mark Zuckerberg did it in three – awkward. And Zuckerberg’s net worth is $2,1 billion more than Murdoch. The fight between old media and new media is waging. Clearly the new media kids are faster, stronger and better. Either way they are all still super wealthy.
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Thursday Morning Spice
06 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Airplane missing over Drakensberg: carrying Mandela’s medical team. Syria loads chemical weapons into bombs. ‘Take Five’ jazz composer dies. Village bans women from using cellphones. Microsoft Twitter campaign backfires. Murdoch’s mother dies. Climate change turns lobsters into cannibals.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
04 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Pranksters push Kim Jong Un closer to TIME Magazine’s person of the year victory. Pope gets Twitter account. Kate has rare morning sickness condition. Syria prepping chemical weapons. Tyson high on coke during Hangover. Our grade nine’s maths average is WHAT?
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Friday Morning Spice
30 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
SA editors freak out over Gaga censorship. MNET sorry for horror film schedule. Dalai Lama to be re-invited. Leveson report blasts Murdoch. Ecclestone berates ‘unbecoming’ Ferrari. Assange has chronic lung condition. DSK settles with maid.
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Thursday Morning Spice
29 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Most SA internet users are black. Nokia tries to block all Blackberry sales. Top SA cyclist exposes Europe’s drug problem. Judgement day for Murdoch. 7-year-old taking marijuana treatment. 17 lottery winners who blew it all. Demi’s new toyboy is HOW old?!
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Monday Morning Spice
19 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zuma lied about that bond. NY Times turns on own CEO. British Airways sends tweet saying ‘fuck you.’ Kate snubs Kardashian. Cops evicted from OR Tambo airport. Top Shop arrives in SA. Bieber denied by Selena in driveway. Murdoch’s Israel tweet..
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Red-Blooded Murdoch Eyeing The LA Times And Chicago Tribune
22 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It looks like Rupert Murdoch might be keen to expand his media empire yet again. Reports have indicated that the old man is now after the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
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Charged: Rebekah Brooks And Andy Coulson
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rebekah Brooks and former Downing Street spin doctor, Andy Coulson, are among eight people who have finally been officially charged in relation to phone hacking, the British Crown Prosecution Service has today confirmed.
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James Murdoch Received Ethical Assurances That “Proved To Be Wrong”
24 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
James Murdoch has defended his actions in the News International scandal, blaming subordinates for feeding him wrong information around just how illegally the company’s flagship newspaper, News of the World, had been conducting its journalism. This emerged today during the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, which we reported on earlier.
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BREAKING: James Murdoch Steps Down
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
James Murdoch has stepped down as Executive Chairman of News Corp to “focus” on his position as Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the same company. When kitchens get hot, people get the hell out. Click though for the full statement by News Corporation.
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UK Labour Party Wants To Introduce “Journalism Licenses”
27 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well hey, that sounds at least a little familiar. Ivan Lewis, shadow culture secretary is presently proposing a licensing scheme for journalists at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, which would have the power to prohibit people from doing any sort of journalism – which would have to include tweeting, blogging, and uploading pictures of stuff.
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Banksy Does Some Rupert Murdoch Art
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Banksy’s put up some new art on his site because all the other well-known people were speaking out about the NewsCorp. hacking scandal, and Banksy didn’t want to be left behind. Which is nice! Because honestly I’d almost forgotten about Murdoch. Way to be relevant, Banksy.
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What Exactly Is ‘Phone Hacking?’
23 Jul 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
With this whole News International Rupert Murdoch Phone Hacking Scandal (NIRMPHS) taking over our lives, there seems to be a large misunderstanding in terms of what exactly ‘phone hacking’ is. I will begin by saying that they do not ‘intercept’ calls and listen to live conversations. No, Sir. It’s a lot easier than that. As […]
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Rupert Murdoch Grilled By British Parliament LIVE On TV Today
19 Jul 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We have worked out a system for you to watch Rupert Murdoch get grilled in parliament, LIVE on your computer from where you are right now. That will be around 15h30 SA time. If you want to know where to watch, you need to be following us on Twitter and we will send you a […]
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Protester Attacks Rupert Murdoch With A Cream Pie [VIDEO]
19 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A person of limited brain activity has attacked media man Rupert Murdoch with a cream pie as the eighty-year old was being questioned by MPs at a parliamentary committee hearing on the ongoing phone hacking scandal. The man’s name is Jonnie Marbles and he’s hilarious.
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The End Of Murdoch
19 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rupert Murdoch, his son, James, and former News Of The World Editor, Rebekah Brooks, are set to face a grilling by the British Parliament’s Culture Committee this afternoon. And it would be advisable for you to tune in, because you might be a witness to the end of Rupert Murdoch, and his de facto control over the greater British Media – a position that he has held for the last 30 years.
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If The Phone-Hacking Scandal Were Turned Into A Movie [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
By now you are probably familiar with the chaos surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s empire of media companies, including the hacking scandal that has seen “The News of the World” shut its doors after more than 150 years. So it’s only a matter of time before someone makes a movie out of the whole debacle. This is what it would look like.
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Awkward: BBC Introduces Rupert Murdoch’s Biographer As A Baseball Expert [VIDEO]
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Michael Wolff is a very influential American journalist who has lately been doing a lot of television interviews. This makes sense, seeing as he wrote a biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch two years ago, titled “The Man Who Owns the News”. But see what happens when the BBC wrongly introduces him live on air as Ben Walker, baseball editor for the Associated Press! Awkward.
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Mail & Guardian Editor, Nic Dawes, Discusses The Newscorp Phone Tapping Scandle [Podcast]
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mail & Guardian editor, Nic Dawes, appeared via phone call on 2oceansVibe Radio‘s Morning Meeting to discuss the potential unraveling of international media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, and his multi-billion dollar News Corp empire, amid reports of phone tapping conducted by The News Of The World, a British tabloid in the News Corp stable. The reports […]
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Five Reasons Why Myspace Is About To Fail (For Real This Time)
05 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In the wake of the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has declared that “Myspace is a problem” and has given the beleaguered social networking site months to sort itself out, we take a look at the reasons why the original posterchild of Web 2.0 is dying.
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RUPERT MURDOCH AND KULULA ON A LEGAL COLLISION COURSE
12 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
You may have read on this morning’s spice that Rupert Murdoch has laid claim to the “Sky” in “Skype”, right after Skype announced its plans to float on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York. The world’s most deliciously-evil media magnate has justified his claim by arguing that NewsCorp derivative BSkyB was established before Skype, […]
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