Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rupert Murdoch's new conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, published its first issue in September. It is the self-styled voice of the conservative revolution. The headline emblazoned across the magazine's cover was PERMANENT OFFENSE. But the most notable article was a virtual endorsement of Powell for President by William Kristol, the Standard's editor and the G.O.P.'s most influential strategist. So much for the revolution...
...Weekly Standard is backed by multinational media financier Rupert Murdoch and is edited by William Kristol, former chief of staff for former vice president Dan Quatle. It was launched last month
...enviable that two of America's most fearsome bosses tried to make pre-emptive bids for it. Both made their proposals in secret. First came General Electric's Jack Welch, who pitched a dramatic cost-cutting plan. Then, at almost the last minute, came Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, who offered Turner the chance to write his own ticket...
...would be just fine with China. The Chinese are becoming savvy marketers themselves: the Chinese media is moving in to spread Beijing's word, the Bank of China Tower dominates the Hong Kong skyline, and the colony's outspoken South China Morning Post has been conveniently purchased from Rupert Murdoch by a wealthy friend of Beijing...
...William Kristol, whose father Irving is an elder statesman of neoconservatism. Kristol is editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard, a conservative review of politics that he founded with John Podhoretz (son of noted neocon Norman) and Fred Barnes (ex of the New Republic) with financing from Rupert Murdoch. Let George bill itself hopefully as "post partisan.'' At the Standard it's the dawn of a postliberal age, for which they would provide a forum and rumpus room, a place where conservatives could not only cackle over the death throes of the left but spat among themselves as well...