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Ethics: What Murdoch and Gingrich talked about...
...AFTERNOON THAT MEDIA BARON RUPERT MURDOCH paid his visit to the Speaker-to-be, Newt Gingrich's one-room Capitol office was in chaos. Extra telephone lines were being installed, and aides were camping out on a floor littered with phone messages. Gingrich, arriving late, waved his hand at the mess and invited Murdoch and two of his lobbyists to an ornate reception room down the hall. There, as caterers set up for a Democratic dinner, the two sat on a bench and talked for 10 to 15 minutes. Their chat was mostly about the election that had swept...
...most insignificant meeting in the history of the world," says Murdoch lobbyist Preston Padden, who had arranged the Nov. 28 chat. Indeed it might have been, except that a few weeks later, Murdoch's publishing house HarperCollins agreed to give Gingrich a $4.5 million advance to write two books. In the ensuing controversy, Gingrich decided to give up all but $1 of the advance and collect only royalties. However, the disclosure last week that Murdoch and Gingrich had met in person reignited criticism of the Speaker's book deal, for which he could still earn millions of dollars while...
...model for this changing network landscape is Fox, the fourth network, started by media baron Rupert Murdoch in 1986. With its methodical, one-night- at-a-time pursuit of the Big Three, Fox was a tough competitor because it played by different rules. Even though it now programs 15 hours of prime time a week -- one FCC benchmark for what constitutes a network -- Fox has managed to avoid the commission restrictions on program ownership and syndication that govern the Big Three. This annoys the other networks, which argue that Fox receives an unfair competitive advantage from Washington while it escapes...
...networks' attitude toward Murdoch did not improve in May, when he enticed 12 stations owned by New World Communications Group to switch their affiliation to Fox. The bad blood came to a full boil a month ago, after NBC went to the FCC to accuse Fox of trying to improperly acquire six more stations and thus exceed the limit on the number a company may own. NBC also asked the commission to investigate whether Fox is violating the 25% limit on foreign ownership of a U.S. broadcast station. (Fox is owned by Murdoch's News Corp., an Australian company...