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...dipped 2.3% since February, distribution of Metro, Associated's morning London giveaway, has risen almost 10% to 549,000 copies a day. "We're keen to attract the urbanite audience on their way home," says Steve Auckland, head of Associated Newspapers' Free Newspaper Division. So, too, is Rupert Murdoch. His News Corp. already publishes the storied Times and tabloid Sun newspapers, but this week, it will also distribute thelondonpaper, with an opening print run and lighthearted content similar to London Lite's. Their difference? "We're building a genuine brand, a genuine newspaper," says an agitated News Corp. executive...
Director Robert Greenwald has produced more than 50 TV movies and a handful of feature films during his 30-year showbiz career. But he's best known now as the rabble-rouser behind politically charged attacks on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News (Outfoxed), big-box department stores (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) and now the mercenary and munitions companies getting rich off of U.S. Defense Department contracts. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers will open the same innovative way Greenwald's previous documentaries have screened - in a select few theaters starting September 8th, a DVD release...
...screenings in one week alone where people not only saw the film but were asked to take action: write a letter, make a phone call, contact a politician about pending legislation or join an activist group. With the Fox documentary, the goal wasn't to change Rupert Murdoch into a flaming left-winger: that's not going to happen. We wanted to provide evidence for the media, so when they analyzed and wrote about Fox News they could show it's not a news organization like most others...
...when the NOTW published information on an upcoming under-wraps meeting between William and a British television reporter. What are the consequences? Goodman, who has been suspended from his journalism duties, could face up to two years in prison and substantial fines if convicted. And News Corporation honcho Rupert Murdoch's publication could be left looking for a new chief royal correspondent. Could the scandal grow? The Metropolitan Police first conducted a small investigation into the Goodman affair. But it charged its antiterror unit with a larger probe in light of indications that many prominent politicians, actors and athletes - often...
...know! Rupert Murdoch! Maybe we're their conscience. Or maybe they say, "Well, we're gonna put these shows on the air. What do you mean I'm biased...