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...evening begins amusingly, with an entertaining panel discussion on the state of the media. Editor of The American Prospect Michael Tomasky delivers the welcoming remarks: “A special welcome to the News Corporation lawyers in the audience,” he quips, referring to the potential lawsuit Rupert Murdoch will be filing against the documentary any day now. There are chuckles, followed by an outcry from the back of the room...
...YORK—According to Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, the Fox News Channel is a conservatively biased, pro-Republican network whose “fair and balanced” maxim is nothing less than a lie. A legitimate argument, indeed—and one that calls for a nuanced, gripping and affecting cinematic expos?...
...Everybody made a mistake, and they are embarrassed, and they have apologized for it, and it happens even on NBC sometimes." RUPERT MURDOCH, in an interview with CNBC after the New York Post, which he owns, ran a front-page story erroneously announcing that Kerry had chosen Dick Gephardt as his running mate. The paper corrected itself the next day. The New York Times later quoted an unnamed Post employee as saying the false tip was called in by Murdoch...
...wizardly world. With a new danger, a new protector: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), a wise, kindly gent with the habit of disappearing every few weeks, then returning with unseemly scratches on his face. Aided by his school chums Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), Harry must discern protective friend from mortal foe at the risk of his life--and of learning astonishing things about himself...
...Helping CCTV International may give News Corp. the upper hand over other foreign TV programmers who want a piece of China's market. "Rupert [Murdoch] is medium-term savvy and long-term wise," says an official with another international media company. Placing a consultant inside CCTV headquarters in Beijing "further entwines News Corp. and CCTV." And Murdoch's man Terenzio slipped in without so much as a hail from the soldier at the gate...