News Corp. has recently announced a desire to buy The Wall Street Journal. And at the top of the Board of Directors is Ruppert Murdoch.
MEDIA
FOX Broadcasting Company
FOX Sports Australia
FOX Television Stations
FOXTEL
MyNetworkTV
STAR
CABLE
Fox Movie Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox College Sports
Fox Sports Enterprises
Fox Sports En Espanol
Fox Sports Net
Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Reality
Fuel TV
FX
National Geographic Channel United States National Geographic Channel Worldwide
Speed
Stats, Inc.
DIRECT BROADCAST
BSkyB
DirecTV
Sky Italia
MAGAZINES
Big League
Inside Out
donna hay
ALPHA
News America Marketing
Smart Source
The Weekly Standard
Gemstar - TV Guide International Inc.
TV Guide
NEWPAPERS
Australasia
Daily Telegraph
Fiji Times
Gold Coast Bulletin
Herald Sun
Newsphotos
Newspix
Newstext
NT News
Post-Courier
Sunday Herald Sun
Sunday Mail
Sunday Tasmanian
2007-08-02 04:55:50 · 14 answers · asked by scottanthonydavis 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
United Kingdom
News International
News of the World
The Sun
The Sunday Times
The Times
Times Literary Supplement
USA
New York Post
BOOKS
HarperCollins Publishers
Australia
Canada
Children's Books
United States
United Kingdom
Zondervan
FILM
Fox Studios Australia
Fox Television Studios
Twentieth Century Fox Film
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Twentieth Century Fox Licensing And Merchandising
Twentieth Century Fox Television
OTHER
Broadsystem
Fox Interactive Media
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kSolo
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truelocal.com.au
homesite.com.au
in2mobi.com.au
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NDS Group
News Digital Media
2007-08-02 04:57:39 · update #1
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
K. Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
News Corporation
José María Aznar
President
FAES - Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis
Former President of Spain
Peter Barnes
Chairman
Ansell Limited
Chase Carey
President and Chief Executive Officer
The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
Peter Chernin
President and Chief Operating Officer
News Corporation
Kenneth E. Cowley
Chairman
R.M. Williams Holdings Pty. Limited
David F. DeVoe
Chief Financial Officer
News Corporation
Viet Dinh
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
Rod Eddington
Non-Executive Chairman for
Australia and New Zealand
JPMorgan
Andrew S.B. Knight
Director
Rothschild Investment Trust C.P
Lachlan Murdoch
Illyria Pty Ltd
Rod Paige, Ed.D.
Chairman
Chartwell Education Group, LLC
We all know now who runs the media - so does his buddies - Bush and Cheney
2007-08-02 04:58:57 · update #2
This control isn't about free market -
its about not providing the truth through a monopoly of media
When the American people can't get the truth and are brainwashed through manufactured propaganda -
There needs to be change!
When do morals finally win out against profit!
2007-08-02 05:28:53 · update #3
Excellent point. I hope Congress grows some balls and blocks the sale of the WSJ.
The FCC needs to reduce the amount of media that any one corporation can own in a market to 10% from 35%.
2007-08-02 05:00:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Media coverage eventually helped end the Vietnam war. It has had a sobering effect on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The industrial war machine will be kept running regardless of what the media says. Look how ridiculous the past reporting has been and we just keep right on doing nothing. War is the most stupid act man could ever impose on another. I have some knowledge of war and I will never be for a war that is not anything other than self preservation..
2016-04-01 11:05:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money controls the media... a lot of people like to think that the "liberals" control the media but those people only want to make themselves out as victims. There are some people that think that "conservatives" are trying to take control of the media but those people are just as paranoid as the other side.
Money, money, money.... controls the media. And it should.
The people that "own" the media are wealthy people and they want to be even richer. They will compromise their own ideaologies to make more money... and there is nothing wrong with that.
Everyone says that Rupert Murdoch is conservative and he is but more importantly he is a businessman, not a crusader. He built FOX and the News Corp. when the United States was becoming more conservative... he saw a business opportunity to show the news in a unapologetic right viewpoint. That was his right... now that America is coming back to the center the News Corp is slowly adjusting by showing more of a liberal viewpoint... Recently, the New York Post (Murdoch's paper) endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Senate over her Republican rival... Murdoch is not stupid, he will put aside his own ideaology to make more money. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Now, what is wrong for the American people is the media being controlled by 2 or 3 individuals.... It looks like that could happen; very few major cities have more than one newspaper and there are only a handful of corporations that own all of these papers.
2007-08-02 05:21:57 · answer #3 · answered by cattledog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At one time most media were owned and operated by lcal/regional companies--usually family owned in the best American tradition. Lots of diversity, lots of competition. And- now-Murdoch (and about 5 other conglomerates) now own the majority of US media. Which is a direct result of the gutting of the FCC's power to regulate by the neoconservatives starting in 1994 when they took over Congress.
YOu want the real laugher? The right wing said they did this to "increase competition.' I'm not making that up--go look up the history of this particular neoconservative travesty.
2007-08-02 05:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
First Powell sold the USA public on the war with Iraq with stupid lies, then his son Mike Powell made sure, Murdoch could buy as much USA communication as he wanted. The two Powell's have single handed destroyed the liberties and freedom of the USA and cost us daily 1 billion on war efforts in Iraq. Now we have Condi Rice heating up the middle east since 5 years. I wonder, why Bush (or better Cheney) does that?
2007-08-02 05:27:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dang it, I knew National Geographic had a freaking right wing agenda. Too much BS lately on that channel.
2007-08-02 05:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by Jose R 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wealth and power own the media ... independent thought is given a very short leach.
2007-08-02 05:19:43 · answer #7 · answered by HillBillieNot 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Liberals
2007-08-02 05:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by jrock1206 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Now if Rupert can only buy the New York Times and N.B.C. the world would be a better place.
2007-08-02 05:06:22 · answer #9 · answered by john 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
the same people who control the government and the economy... the corporations, i.e. the US elite.
2007-08-02 05:07:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋