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...bank is eagerly exploring ways to get the deal done. Macquarie has reportedly offered to allow China Netcom to retain up to 50% of the restructured assets of PCCW. Meanwhile the bank is looking for partners. Star Group, an Asian broadcasting subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate, was considering joining Macquarie's bid?even though Murdoch himself expressed doubt that the deal would succeed. China is "treating Macquarie as hostile invaders," Murdoch told The Australian newspaper, which News Corp. owns. "It would be an amazing achievement if Macquarie managed to turn the situation around." Win or lose...
...early lead in reaching the all-important youth consumers who live and breathe the game in the digital world. In mid-February, with little mainstream fanfare, Nike partnered with Google to launch joga.com a global social-networking site for soccer fans that mimics MySpace.com the networking juggernaut that Rupert Murdoch recently purchased for $580 million. The most innovative aspect of Nike's broad Joga Bonito (Portuguese for Play Beautiful) World Cup marketing campaign, joga.com has about 800,000 members from Chile, Afghanistan, Malaysia, New Zealand--you name it. The company says it adds a new member every eight seconds...
Already this is fun. But it gets better. The story was broken by the Daily News, locked for decades in a fratricidal tabloid war with the Post. The scoop gave News owner Mort Zuckerman delicious revenge against Post owner Rupert Murdoch. The Post, which is cooperating with the FBI, has suspended Stern, meanwhile noting that he was only a part-time underling of Page Six editor Richard Johnson...
...stake are critical. "We contribute as members of the press to holding the government accountable for its actions," says Latraverse. "Canadians should be worried when they see the government trying to exert such an unprecedented level of control." Unions that represent journalists have spoken in even harsher terms. Peter Murdoch of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union says the new policy "smacks of totalitarianism...
...Parmalat.This type of corruption has been enabled by Berlusconi’s dominance over the Italian media. In the United States, oily contacts between Vice President Cheney and foggy Halliburton still cast dark shadows on Iraqi deserts. And the Republican administration finds close allies in media moguls like Rupert Murdoch and his “fair and balanced” Fox News. But who needs indirect, obscure links? In Italy, Berlusconi saved himself the effort by controlling 90 percent of television broadcasts, directly through his Mediaset, or indirectly, through the state-owned RAI. Furthermore, he repeatedly tried to postpone...