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Modern Media Mogul I very much enjoyed and learned from your cover story on News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch [July 9]. He has transcended the temptation to use his acquisitions to promote his personal ideology. Instead, he appears to have sought a balance by creating a powerful and profitable media dialogue that feeds on its own contrary products. Thank you for reporting this story. Art Drexler, San Diego...
...very much enjoyed and learned from your cover story on News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch [July 9]. He has transcended the temptation to use his acquisitions to promote his personal ideology. Instead, he appears to have sought a balance by creating a powerful and profitable media dialogue that feeds on its own contrary products...
...latest examples is Chevron Corp., which is building new offices in the northern suburbs, 40 miles north of the city across Lake Pontchartrain, and plans to transfer 550 employees from New Orleans to Covington by the end of the year. That would take well-paid people out of downtown New Orleans, a move that will impact the central business district's economy. "We made the decision in May, 2006, when our employees were making important housing decisions," says Qi Wilson, a Chevron spokesperson. The company, like many employees, decided the north shore offered better security should another hurricane strike, along...
...those don't all represent actual people (MySpace places no restrictions on how many identities one can assume), and there's a widespread belief--albeit one not yet backed up by much hard data--that Facebook is gaining ground. It's a belief shared by Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns MySpace. When an interviewer quipped in June that readers were abandoning newspapers for MySpace, Murdoch shot back, "I wish they were. They're all going to Facebook at the moment...
...example, monitoring and swiftly responding to radical propaganda online. The long-term challenge facing the U.S. and its allies is harder but even more crucial: bolstering the credibility of those within the Muslim world willing to stand against the forces of extremism. Otherwise, says the Rand Corp.'s Brian Jenkins, "we are condemned to stepping on cockroaches one at a time. This will be endless...