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Cable networks, television and movies powered a 59% surge in annual profits at News Corporation although media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned last night that “less robust growth” was imminent. Global profits jumped from $3.4bn to $5.4bn in the year to June at the media empire which recently took over the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Dow...
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Rupert Murdoch is being lambasted as “the man who wants to control news in America” in a high-profile US campaign designed to stir up public opposition to controversial plans to relax the country’s media ownership laws. Adverts running on US TV stations, including Mr Murdoch’s own Fox News, show the media mogul’s scowling face appearing...
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Rupert Murdoch shared some insights into how he makes his political affiliations yesterday and called for former speaker Newt Gingrich to enter the next US presidential race. Describing New York senator Hillary Clinton as “very impressive”, he said he was not supporting her – though in a swipe at president George Bush, he thought she...
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A splenetic-looking Rupert Murdoch is being presented as “the man who wants to control news in America” in a high- profile US advertising campaign aimed at stirring opposition to the relaxation of media ownership laws. The media tycoon, who controls News Corporation, has been singled out in national press and television advertising this week, including...
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Cable networks, television and movies powered a 59% surge in annual profits at News Corporation although media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned last night that “less robust growth” was imminent. Global profits jumped from $3.4bn to $5.4bn in the year to June at the media empire which recently took over the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Dow...
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Cable networks, television and movies powered a 59% surge in annual profits at News Corporation although media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned last night that “less robust growth” was imminent. Global profits jumped from $3.4bn to $5.4bn in the year to June at the media empire which recently took over the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Dow...
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Rupert Murdoch should not be allowed to buy Channel 5 and other non-European companies should not be given the go ahead to make a bid for ITV, the influential parliamentary committee chaired by Lord Puttnam has recommended. It says the government should not lift existing restrictions on American companies owning UK broadcasters such as ITV...
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation dynasty spans Fox News in America, BSkyB in the UK and Star TV in Asia, is expecting his sixth child at the age of 71. The new arrival will be his second child with his third wife, 35-year-old Wendi Deng, and will once again raise the question of...
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Rupert Murdoch is being lambasted as “the man who wants to control news in America” in a high-profile US campaign designed to stir up public opposition to controversial plans to relax the country’s media ownership laws. Adverts running on US TV stations, including Mr Murdoch’s own Fox News, show the media mogul’s scowling face appearing...
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Nuns And Soldiers is the only important English novel whose first word (“Wittgenstein…”) is a philosopher’s name. Its author, Iris Murdoch, was always clear that philosophy came first and art limped behind. The one clarified while the other entertained – a secondary, and sometimes wicked, activity. Most art, even the very greatest, was just...
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