Word: murdochized
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...were only this simple. Wellman's script is a minefield of abstractions, a barrage of heavy-handed symbolism and non-linear (dis) connections. And where else to witness this fragmented and worn schema of juxtapositions than a junkyard? The mire is realized in James Murdoch's artfully ramshackle set. Littered with couches, barrels, tires and a clothesline, the audience is strewn around the playing space, indistinguishable from the wreckage...
...companies added to a growing ethical controversy. The House ethics committee is already looking into donations to GOPAC, the Gingrich-led political-action committee that received money from corporations like Hewlett-Packard. The committee is also probing his lucrative contract to write two books for media mogul Rupert Murdoch...
...started out mildly enough, as Democratic Representative Carrie Meek of Florida delivered a routine denunciation of Speaker Newt Gingrich's lucrative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch- owned publishing house. But before Meek could reach the end of her short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles...
...part, Murdoch has vital interests at stake in Washington -- not the $ least of which is a spat with NBC, a rival of the mogul's Fox network. NBC has complained to government regulators that Murdoch's control of Fox, which is owned by his Australia-based company, violates rules on foreign ownership of TV stations. Padden told TIME he was the one who raised the issue with Gingrich: "Right at the end, I interjected that NBC was trashing us all over Capitol Hill, and it was just sour grapes because we were hurting them in the marketplace...
...sides of the deal insist there was no impropriety. When Gingrich and Murdoch met, their aides say, the Speaker was unaware that Murdoch owned HarperCollins, and Murdoch had no idea that his company was negotiating for Gingrich's books. Yet even Republicans are worried by the lingering suggestion that the Speaker is looking to make a profit on his new fame. Thomas Mann, a scholar of Congress at Washington's Brookings Institution, predicts that continuing controversy over the deal will force Gingrich to give up the book project entirely or donate all its proceeds to charity...