Rupert Murdoch Heads West
The strategy of Rupert Murdoch, always arch-conservative in his politics, has been to start or take over and use media to further his political viewpoint.
The Digital Media Oligarchy: Who Owns Online News?
More than half of US visits to major online news sites from Dec. 2024 through Nov. 2025 went to outlets controlled by just seven families or corporate entities.
Right-Wing Sleuths Find the LA Fires Culprit: Once Again, It’s Wokeness
Coverage of the LA fires demonstrates that in the Murdoch fantasyland, “wokeness” can be used to blame literally anything.
Reporting on Influence of Pro-Israel Funders Is Not Antisemitic
Establishment attacks on outlets that expose corruption are evidence of good journalism. In this case, they are meant to shut down dissent against the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
What the Chuck? Murdoch Defends Bibi From Senate Leader
The Murdoch empire professed outrage at the idea of an American official intervening in the politics of another country.
Boosting RFK Jr., Murdoch Pushes 2024 Rightward
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is doing its best to keep Kennedy’s ambitions afloat–and push the political center of gravity to the right.
Murdoch-Owned Outlets Ignore Their Own Role in Hate Crime Surge
Murdoch–owned outlets focused on hate crime without taking responsibility for the xenophobia they’ve consistently peddled.
‘Woke Capital’ Isn’t Real—but Conservative Fearmongering Is
The Republican Party is looking toward a rebranding where it can channel anti-business rage toward standing athwart social progress on race, gender and sexuality.
Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
As consensus emerges not just around the science of climate change, but also its amplifying effects on extreme weather events, Murdoch’s media empire—and the Republican Party that its talking points inform—will remain the last holdout.
Giving NY’s Governor a $783,000 Bribe Is Business as Usual for Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch has long made a practice of funneling large payments to influential politicians via HarperCollins book contracts, in what amounts to a system of legalized bribery.
Income Inequality? The TV Industry Is on Top of It
TV bosses are in the top 20 percent of big corporations in terms of how much more they make than their employees.
When You Take Murdoch’s Leftovers, You Get Murdoch’s Sleaze
Real estate developer and media mogul Mort Zuckerman has picked Colin Myler to be the new top editor for his New York tabloid, the Daily News. That’s a surprising choice on at least a couple of accounts. One is that Myler’s last job was at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, which was shut down […]
McHistory: Fox Launched to Counter Nonexistent Leftism of MSNBC
The headline of Al Neuharth’s column in USA Today (7/15/11) summed up his case: “Murdoch Media Give You What You Want.” That sort of depends on who “you” is. Neuharth explains: Murdoch has an uncanny knack for figuring out what a sizable segment of readers and viewers want and giving it to them. Straight or […]
Fox Media Show Skips Murdoch Scandal
Fox News Channel airs a weekly media criticism show called Fox News Watch. Disgraced New York Times reporter Judith Miller is one of the panelists because…well, it’s Fox. TVNewser noticed that the show posts a web video of the chatter among the panelists during commercial breaks. On this weekend’s show, they started talking about how […]
Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch’s U.S. TV Licenses?
As noted by an account on the TVNewser blog (7/11/11), on ABC‘s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a “character clause” for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating […]
Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
Bill O’Reilly‘s recent “joke” about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personalities or their worldview. During the cable channel’s 2008 election coverage, in […]
Arson Threats and Other Negotiating Tips From Rupert Murdoch
People love Fox News…. We said to the cable operators when we put the price up, we said do you want a monument to yourself…. Cancel us, you might get your house burnt down. –Rupert Murdoch (Australian Financial Review, 11/5/10)
The Downside to Murdoch’s Plan to Control Online News
The problem with Rupert Murdoch’s proposal to create an online news consortium, in which major publishers would all band together to put their news content behind pay walls (L.A. Times, 8/21/09), is that it’s not illegal to discuss news events online. And you don’t want to make it illegal to discuss news events online. And […]
Thanking Murdoch’s Journal for More of Rove’s Lies
OpEd News has published an open letter from attorney Dana Jill Simpson (8/20/09) to “Mr. Murdoch and all the editors at the Wall Street Journal,” in which she expresses her wish to “thank you from the very bottom of my heart for running Karl Rove’s delusional article, ‘Closing In on Rove,’ on August 20, 2009″: […]
‘No Worries’ in Fox Coverage of Murdoch Crimes
News Corpse blogger Mark Howard (7/8/09) has linked to a London Guardian “story that simply must be read”: Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. The payments secured […]
