Word: murdoch
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...million) apologized in print for a story alleging that drunken Liverpool soccer fans had "viciously attacked" rescue workers after 95 fans were crushed to death at a crowded soccer stadium in Sheffield. The wildly exaggerated story spurred a boycott of the paper in Liverpool. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was already reeling from a $1.8 million out-of-court settlement with rock star Elton John after falsely accusing him of using the services of a male prostitute...
...last July, the merged company agreed last week to shed a subsidiary that had turned out to be a disappointing performer. Time Warner said it will sell its Illinois-based textbook publishing unit, Scott, Foresman, for $455 million to Harper & Row Publishers, which is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. When it bought Scott, Foresman in 1986, Time paid $520 million and assumed $50 million in debt. Time Warner's losses on the Scott, Foresman investment will total $175 million, which will be written off in the fourth quarter...
Peterson and Morita have a point. When Australian Rupert Murdoch was taking substantial control of major American media properties (including Metromedia Inc. and 20th Century Fox), little was written about the dangers of media manipulation from Down Under. Reportage focused less on the fact that the predator was Australian (Murdoch has since acquired American citizenship) than that he was Murdoch. Nor did warnings sound when Canada's Thomson Newspapers acquired more than 100 papers...
...thought of this personal phone service, Jose? Rupert Murdoch...
...decrees, will be "top-heavy with editors." Much of their role / will be to imitate editors elsewhere, notably those of the British tabloids (one of Ingersoll's heroes is Rupert Murdoch) and the breezy, chipper Toronto Sun, whose owners flirted with investing in the St. Louis project. Ingersoll is borrowing blatantly from USA Today, to the extent of labeling the new paper's sections Money, Life and Sports. Pages of USA Today are taped on a wall next to a sign reading YOUR GUIDE TO EXCELLENCE. Despite the Sun's derivative quality, Ingersoll describes the paper...