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Murdoch supports Prince Harry over nude photos
LONDON — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch came to the defence of Britain’s Prince Harry on Sunday, urging critics to “give him a break” over photographs of him frolicking naked in a Las Vegas hotel suite. Australian-born Murdoch posted a message of support on his Twitter page after The Sun, his…
Rupert Murdoch resigns from newspaper boards
The (U.K.) Telegraph is reporting that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from the boards of his various newspaper holdings in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Filings with both the United Kingdom Registrar of Companies and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the resignations were made…
Rupert Murdoch: Scientologists are ‘creepy, maybe even evil’
LOS ANGELES — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch weighed in on the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce story Sunday, saying he thinks Scientologists are “creepy” and possibly even evil. The News Corporation chief urged his Twitter followers to watch the story, which broke on Friday when Holmes announced she was filing from…
Twitter’s ‘verified accounts’ now come with hefty price tag
When media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife allegedly joined Twitter, it didn’t take her long to earn a “verified account,” one of the few status symbols available to known individuals on the social media network. Days later, the account was revealed to be a fake, leaving journalists the world over wondering…
James Murdoch rejects ‘mafia boss’ comparison
James Murdoch angrily rejected claims Thursday that he was like a “mafia boss” and denied misleading MPs about the extent of his knowledge of phone-hacking at the News of the World. In heated exchanges with MPs who were grilling him for a second time about the now-defunct tabloid, the News…
Murdoch attacker has jail sentence cut
A stand-up comedian jailed for six weeks for throwing shaving foam at media mogul Rupert Murdoch had his sentence cut to four weeks by a British court on Friday. Jonathan May-Bowles, a 26-year-old who calls himself Jonnie Marbles, was seeking to overturn the sentence he received this week for the…
Gore: Murdoch banned Current TV in Italy because we hired Olbermann
An Italian cable provider owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has kicked the Current TV network off the air following the channel’s announcement that former MSNBC liberal news host Keith Olbermann would be joining their lineup. Current TV founder Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States,…
Jackie Chan, Barbra Streisand lead Hu state dinner guests
WASHINGTON — Action star Jackie Chan and pop diva Barbra Streisand topped a guest list including three presidents and political and media elites at a US state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday. At the request of the Chinese side, the menu for the dinner honoring Hu, after a…
MediaMatters wins lunch with Rupert Murdoch
WASHINGTON — A group which is a persistent critic of media mogul Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that it had paid 86,000 dollars and won a charity auction to have lunch with the News Corp. chairman. Media Matters for America said it submitted the winning bid for the lunch with Murdoch…
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