#News Corp

[contemplatingoutlander]

A Letter to Rupert Murdoch Upon His Retirement

[Note. Read past the first line--which is meant as sarcasm.]

Dear Mr. Murdoch: I wanted to write to you to thank you for the impact you and yours have had on my life. I once lived peacefully in a neighborhood of people from varied backgrounds. Back then, I never knew nor cared what people’s political affiliations were. In fact, even when dating, asking someone to label themselves D or R would have seemed nonsensical. Thanks to you, half of that neighborhood no longer speaks to the other half. Prior to 2016, I used to attend a family reunion picnic in Pennsylvania, never caring if some of the people were particularly religious. Well, I would like to thank you for your hand in radicalizing and reinforcing perplexing beliefs in about half of the reunion participants. Now the reunions are barely attended and the family has divided into a feud. I want to thank you for the cousins and friends who defriended me, online and in person, when they fell victim to the dark rhetoric you peddle. Convinced now that their lives are under threats from trans criminals and vicious migrants, they are completely unaware of how they’re economic interested are being robbed by a different source. Thank you so much for your enduring spirit of divisiveness. I hope the money you enjoyed while alive was worth all you stole from society. Mostly, may the hatred, division, suspicious, distrust, judgement and malignancy you leashed on us be returned to you a thousand fold….and may your nursing care be delivered with the same love for humanity you left behind. --GWE, NY, commenting on a NY Times article: Rupert Murdoch to Retire From Fox and News Corporation Boards

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#rupert murdoch #fox news #dividing america #murdoch's retirement #news corp #right-wing media #right wing propaganda #the new york times

[madeupfromglue]

raytheon ad

#mlp #derpy #derpy hooves #raytheon #viacom #cbs #news corp #ge #at&t #disney #timeawarner

[mysharona1987]

#Wsj #dominion #politics #trump #journalism #rupert murdoch #news corp

[acerebral]

this is the front page of my local newspaper today. the "terrorists" in question are the literal fucking UN. all because israel claimed 12 of the 13,000 UNRWA members were working with hamas. so now we've cut off humanitarian aid to Gaza where children are starving and having limbs amputated without anaesthesia. this shit is so fucking bleak.

#the advertiser #news corp #israel #palestine

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

PLEASE GOD 🙏

DAMN IT I was hoping he died

#rupert murdoch #abc news #australian broadcasting corporation #fox news #fox corporation #news corp

[eaglesnick]

I’m Alright Jack!

Do you remember the Leveson inquiry into press standards, which cost the UK taxpayer almost £4 million? The inquiry was divided into two parts and the final report of Part One, which investigated whether the existing Press Complaints Commission was fit for purpose, decided a new, independent, statutory complaints procedure should  be set up to replace it.

Tory PM David Cameron, who had set up the inquiry, refused to implement the recommendations and the British press continues to be both judge and jury of its own behaviour.

The second part of the Leveson inquiry was to investigate “"the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International, other media organisations, and whether the police received corrupt payments or were otherwise complicit in misconduct."

David Cameron cancelled the second part of the inquiry and News International was never investigated.

The Murdock family owns news International, now known as News Corporation. The Murdock family also own Fox Corporation in the USA and were recently in the headlines when they made a $787.5m payout to Dominion for deliberately and knowingly spreading false information about the company after the 2020 US election. 

Dominion, by paying an out of court settlement, allowed the Murdock’s to avoid an in-depth scrutiny of their libellous actions.

The Guardian (19/04/23) had this to say: 

“…while Fox doled out an unprecedented sum, they were able to avoid something priceless: the public humiliation of a trial and an apology.”

Today we learn that something very similar has happened here in England. Prince William has apparently settled a phone-hacking claim against the Murdock group, for a "very large sum" of money.

If this is true it tells us as much about Prince William as it does the about the unsavoury behaviour of the Murdock news empire. I would have hoped that Prince William, our future king, would have had the moral backbone to take Murdock’s News Group Newspapers to court so that if they had been behaving illegally their actions could be publicly exposed. Alas, it seems Prince William lacked the moral courage necessary and preferred instead to take the money and run. A future king should have the well being of his subjects uppermost in his mind but in this instance monetary self-interest seems to have won out over moral responsibility.

As one newspaper said about the Dominion settlement, the multimillion-dollar pay-out for the Murdock’s was just the price for doing business. Much in the same way British water companies illegally dump sewage into our rivers and seas because it is cheaper to do this than pay for modernising treatment plants, so unscrupulous newspapers and media outlets will continue to engage in illegal practices and peddle half-truths and lies until they are brought to public account in the British courts.

#uk politics #murdock #news corp #prince willaim #accountability #settlements #selfishness #morality

[tomorrowusa]

The same old white nationalism will still be at Fox despite Tucker Carlson’s departure. Murdoch will put perfume and makeup on it for the sake of public relations.

#tucker carlson #white nationalism #fox news #news corp #rupert murdoch #tucker carlson gets fired #steve greenberg

[z34l0t]

#rupert murdoch #news corp #faux news

[transpondster]

Andy Kessler writing in today’s Wall Street Journal:  Silicon Valley Bank failed because there weren’t enough white men on the bank’s Board of Directors.

#wsj #wall street journal #racism #sexism #silicon valley bank #svb #news corp #dow jones #andy kessler #sure bc white bankers had nothing to do with the 2008 financial crisis

[sinister-prime-minister]

#foxtel #auscore #australia #news corp #mean girls

[ebookporn]

Harper Collins, KKR bidding for Simon & Schuster, Wall Street Journal reports

June 15 (Reuters) - HarperCollins Publishers and KKR & Co (KKR.N) are among the bidders for book publisher Simon & Schuster as it pursues a sale for the second time in less than three years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Reuters had in February reported that Paramount Global (PARA.O), the owner of Simon & Schuster, was again seeking to sell the publisher, months after the media company's $2.2 billion deal to sell the book publisher to Penguin Random House collapsed.

Last year, the U.S. Justice Department sued to stop the tie-up of Penguin and Simon & Schuster, as a combined group would have accounted for nearly half of the market for publishing rights to blockbuster books.

HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp (NWSA.O), is betting that its bid won’t meet a similar fate, the WSJ report said.

HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment, while KKR declined to comment.

#simon and schuster #book publishing #harper collins #booksellers #librarians #news corp

[cantquitu]

I thought this was an interesting look at how female stars like Sienna Miller were treated in the noughties, and the heinous actions that the UK tabloids got away with and are still getting away with. I'm impressed that she persisted in taking them to task for 17 long years.

#but celebs are ASKING for it right??? #🙄 #sienna miller #news corp #the sun #tabloid harassment

[esckeyes]

I am cool and know how to meme like the kids.

The Union wants the same starting salary that Simon and Schuster already gets.

#harpercollins #strike #union strong #bernie sanders #rupert murdoch #news corp #publishing #nyc #books

[mysharona1987]

#rupert murdoch #news corp #trump news

[wool-f]

Experimenting and failing my way to success

Hello beautiful people who come back here to read what I write about every week!! Thank you so much for being here and reading my little or big musings, I appreciate you all. 

This week, I have been thinking a lot about all things “success” and what that means in this day and age. I have written before about understanding that putting unnecessary pressure on ourselves to succeed at any given thing by a specific time or age is unhealthy and often unrealistic when we look at when and how those structures were first established, and I think success or perceived success is no different. So as I continue this journey of self discovery called life, I remain committed to trying anything and everything along the way to test out what works for me and what doesn’t work for me.

As some of you may or may not know, I work for News Corp, one of the biggest and wide spread media companies in the world. At this stage I am just a small reporter covering a patch in south east Melbourne, if you would like to read my professional work on that front you can do that here. However, like many journalists, my long term plan is to move beyond this level of reporting and into another field entirely. 

Recently, News Corp offered up the opportunity to take part in a program they are calling the “Digital News Academy”. It’s the first program of its kind worldwide, and basically teaches journalists how to exist on social media without becoming redundant among social journalists.

I applied and was accepted into the first round of the program, which started last week. We are learning from key stakeholders in the journalism and social media industry about how to convert and translate our skills across all our platforms. As a young and new journalist this is something that really excites and motivates me. 

At this stage, you might be wondering how does this relate to the topic of success and trying different things? Well, the first lesson of our course was led by an expert story teller, who said that in order to be successful at anything, you have to be willing to try different things and to fail at them. 

This might seem like obvious advice for anyone, and honestly, it wasn’t the first time I had heard someone say something like this. It was however, the first time it resonated in a way that I could see. I could see this young guy, who had tried a whole heap of different things, failed and failed and failed again, but every time failed upwards - and this is what got him to the position he is in now. 

I have decided that throughout this journey with my company, I am going to take everything that I learn within the course, and apply it to my social media platforms. I have begun a Canva document to track the progress I am making and the actions I am taking throughout this time, because I know it will be useful for me to see where things are working and where things might have to be tweaked, or even just saved for later. 

I am considering releasing it as an E-Book at the end of the course, and therefore at the end of the period of my social media experiment, so that other people can see how I grew my social platforms and brand over a nine month period. 

I will literally be trying everything and anything during this process, without fear or hesitation, so if you want to follow along the journey I am on to success through failure, please follow my other platforms, which you can find here. 

I’ve said a few times that I will update this blog with my progress on certain fronts, and have not yet followed through. This project, however, is something I am financially and professionally committed to in a different way, so the updates will be regular, and hopefully, insightful for anyone trying to grow as a writer, a journalist, a content creator/influencer, or just using social media for fun. 

Leave me a comment if you would like me to do or try something specific with my socials and I’ll definitely give it a go and let you know how the process and growth success is! 

Love you all, I will speak to you in the next post :)

Gxx

#social media #social media growth #growth strategy #journalism #journalist #digital news academy #social media ebooks #canva #motivation #writer #writer inspiration #australian journalist #news corp #melbourne #experimentation #social experiment #feedback #naarm

[metronn]

i try not to cite articles with obvious bias, but i think it's ok to reference one that says news corp has "demonic familiars"

#news corp #auspol #its about natsec if anyone cares. ill probably post more later because its taking up a lot of brainspace #.txt