“WE HAVEN’T BURIED THE CHILDREN YET. WE’RE NOT DISCUSSING IT.” While media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been praised for his public reactions to the Connecticut school massacre by calling for stricter gun regulations in the United States, his Fox News cable channel is accused of dropping the ball on coverage of the tragedy by [...]
“WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT SOME IMBECILE?” (Counterpunch) This question is attributed to Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. He is referring to the “99%” of the Occupy movement, and his utterance is used by Mike Lofgren to keynote a description of how the rich in America [...]
The Washington Post is reporting that the political action committee of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire currently embroiled in an international phone hacking scandal, has stepped up its contributions to members of Congress and fundrasising arms of both major American political parties. According to filings with the government, News Corp. contributed over $50,000 [...]
THE RUPERT MURDOCH SCANDAL AND THE CORRUPTION OF MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT: THE MORE THINGS SEEM TO CHANGE, THE MORE THEY WILL STAY THE SAME. (Black Agenda Report) This is Margaret Kimberley’s perspective in reflecting on the denunciation by political leaders in the U.S., U.K. and Australia of the atrocious “news” practices of the media mogul’s [...]
ONE IF BY SEA, TWO IF BY AIR (The National) Israel continues its repressive practices against would-be pro-Palestinian protesters. Having thwarted a “flotilla” of ships headed for Gaza to support solidarity with the besieged territory by the grace of the Greek government, Israel takes action to “re-patriate” numerous activists in a “flytilla” of activists who [...]
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