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...Silver King's stock from $25 to $39 the day Diller's purchase was announced (the stock closed last week at $301/2). Still and all, this is not the kingdom people expected Diller would survey when he walked out on his job as chairman of Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox in 1992 and told the world he yearned to own a network of his own. His assumed ambition was to be a Murdoch, or even a Laurence Tisch...
Answer: because all of American free television with national scope has been seized by the likes of General Electric, Westinghouse, Disney and Rupert Murdoch. The giant-corporate agenda has become the sole agenda. Even the Public Broadcasting System has been purged of temperate Robert MacNeil, reducing its NewsHour to Republican softball pitcher Jim Lehrer--a guaranteed development now that every program begins with "Thanks" to Exxon or "Thanks" to AT&T or "Thanks" to ADM. You don't bite the hand that feeds...
Harvard has long numbered distinguished Africanists among its faculty. When a graduate student in the 1960s, I took courses from Martin Kilson, Rupert Emerson and Robert Rotberg (I mention only political scientists). Since that time, the ranks of Harvard's Africanists have deepened dramatically...
...YORK: Rupert Murdoch outlined Tuesday his plans for a new 24-hour television news channel run by Roger Ailes. Murdoch, the former Australian publishing magnate who launched the Fox television network and has a sizeable television presence in Europe, and partner MCI are fresh from winning an FCC bidding war for direct broadcast satellite television rights in the U.S. Ailes, the former media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush, resigned last week as president of NBC's successful cable network. "It's a logical place for Ailes to be," says TIME's Richard Zoglin, "especially if Murdoch is serious...
...fact, tensions between the two had been building, along with Redstone's growing fascination with his Hollywood operations. Redstone has compared himself frequently to Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, an aggressive, hands-on chief executive. "The references to me and Murdoch have been overblown," Redstone now says. "I do know that when Murdoch saw problems in China, the next day he was there. I don't want to take the slow boat to China...