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Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB begins fightback at UK officials
Rupert Murdoch’s empire launched a fightback on Thursday after a mauling by British lawmakers, with satellite broadcaster BSkyBannouncing large profits and insisting it is fit to hold a licence. A parliamentary committee said in a majority decision on Tuesday that Murdoch was “not a fit person” to run a global company because of…
FCC urged to revoke Fox broadcast licenses
A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation’s 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) has written to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,…
Despite pressure, Murdoch has iron grip on media empire
WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch faces stepped up pressure over control of News Corp. following a blistering report from British lawmakers on a hacking scandal but his grip on the firm is not in immediate danger, analysts say. That is because Murdoch holds the reins of the New York-based global media…
Jon Stewart excoriates Murdoch’s mind-boggling level of corruption
Rupert Murdoch, head of the embattled media conglomerate NewsCorp was back before Parliament this week. His previous testimony revolved around his many newspapers’ proclivity for hacking into the voice mail accounts of various celebrities, the families of British troops killed in action, and most memorably, the cell phone of a…
Murdoch denies seeking favors from UK leaders
Media baron Rupert Murdoch tried on Wednesday to downplay his influence on British politics, saying in his first appearance at a press ethics inquiry he had never asked a prime minister for anything. His testimony on oath at the Leveson inquiry in London came a day after claims emerged during…
Revealed: Murdoch got secret go-ahead from Thatcher to buy The Times
Alan Travis, The Guardian A secret meeting between Rupert Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher cleared the way for News International to buy the Times and Sunday Times in 1981, Thatcher’s private files reveal. A long note – marked by her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, as “commercial in confidence” – of the…
Murdoch’s Sun attacks police ‘witch-hunt’
Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid The Sun on Monday condemned police raids against its journalists as a “witch-hunt” worthy of former communist states, and won rare support from rival newspapers. The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, both non-Murdoch papers, also questioned the scale of the police operation after another fiveSun staff were arrested at the…
Murdoch ‘flying to London’ after Sun arrests
Rupert Murdoch will fly to London this week to meet journalists at The Sun after five senior staff at his flagship British tabloid were arrested over bribery allegations, sources said on Sunday. Publisher News International said Murdoch had given a “personal assurance” that The Sun would not face the same…
Eight arrested in bribery probe at Murdoch’s Sun
Britain’s biggest selling newspaper The Sun was in crisis Saturday after police arrested five of its journalists over bribery allegations, but owner Rupert Murdoch vowed to keep publishing the tabloid. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) official, a member of the armed forces and a policeman were also arrested over allegations that journalists paid…
Four held in Murdoch police payments probe
Detectives investigating the suspected payment of police for information arrested a serving officer and three other men on Saturday, and searched the offices of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers. The investigation is linked to the police probe into phone-hacking at the News of the World, which Murdoch shut down in July after…
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