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Topic: Would You Want Rupert Murdoch As Your Boss?
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| noah_mb | Posted – 5/4/2007 9:36:45 AM | show profile | email poster News Corp. Plans Strategy to Woo Family, Journalists (WSJ)News Corp., launching a two-pronged offensive, is planning to take its case for buying Dow Jones & Co. to the media company's controlling shareholders, the Bancroft family, and directly to the newsroom of the Wall Street Journal. NYT: Murdoch insists he won't meddle in [Dow Jones'] journalism or slash-and-burn the staff. "We're not coming in with a bunch of cost-cutters," he said, but added: "I'm not saying it's going to be a holiday camp for everybody." BusinessWeek: "Rupert wakes up in the morning and thinks about how he can change the media world and where there are white spaces," says media consultant Peter Kreisky. "He had a plan that made [the Dow Jones] assets worth more than they would in just about anyone else's hands." LAT: Dow Jones staff urged to show support for family. ------ Noah Davis assistant editor mediabistro.com |
| janetoladyr | Posted – 5/4/2007 11:40:12 AM | show profile | email poster If the WSJ wld be sold to Murdoch it would be a travesty. To me that wld be like selling the New Yorker to Mad Magazine. Bancroft Family, please do not sell!!!! |
| Kbene | Posted – 5/4/2007 12:11:10 PM | show profile Murdoch as Boss I can see the masthead of the Murdoch-owned WSJ now: "The Wall Street, Fair and Accurate, We Report, You Decide". What businessman wants to rely on a biased and journalistically slanted publication |
| Kbene | Posted – 5/4/2007 12:11:44 PM | show profile | email poster Murdoch as Boss I can see the masthead of the Murdoch-owned WSJ now: "The Wall Street, Fair and Accurate, We Report, You Decide". What businessman wants to rely on a biased and journalistically slanted publication |
| questoo1 | Posted – 5/4/2007 1:51:49 PM | show profile why is the wsj being played out as the poster child of objective reporting? |
| the1godc | Posted – 5/4/2007 2:53:24 PM | show profile | email poster on point I believe Murdoch would make a great boss b/c he thinks like me. The kids at Fox seem pretty happy don't they? |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 6/26/2007 3:41:10 PM | show profile I'm sure they'll all get along fine as long as they think like Der Murdoch. Works for Faux Nooz. |
| mailbag | Posted – 6/26/2007 4:26:47 PM | show profile | email poster I'm taking your question literally... and yes, I would take a job that reports to him directly. Would I work for someone under him? No. |
| Desu | Posted – 6/26/2007 5:26:49 PM | show profile Why would anyone want to work for a fascist? |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 7/17/2007 6:24:19 PM | show profile Looks like Der Murdoch will, as always, once again get his way. My sympathies to the many quality journalists on the WSJ staff who will be swallowed up by the Murdochrity. Except, of course, the right wingnuts of the WSJ editorial page, who will welcome Der Murdoch with open arms. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 7/17/2007 6:36:52 PM | show profile hasn't the wsj always mainly been for hardcore right-wingers like murdoch anyway? |
| writesonwater | Posted – 7/17/2007 7:55:33 PM | show profile Wasn't the Aussie in Fierce Creatures loosely parodying him? |
| ejlyman | Posted – 7/18/2007 9:15:27 AM | show profile | email poster Sad day I'm a former Journal and DJ staffer and -- even though I left the company under less-than-ideal circumstances -- it breaks my heart to think of Murdoch controlling things. I'm still hoping it'll fall through somehow, but it looks like the writing's on the wall. ------ Italy-based freelancer www.ericjlyman.com |
| chucho | Posted – 7/18/2007 10:52:23 AM | show profile http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/26/business/murdoch27.php?page=2 Excerpts: Many big companies have sought to break into the Chinese market over the past two decades, but few of them have been as ardent and unrelenting as News Corp. Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp., has flattered Communist Party leaders and done business with their children. His Fox News network helped China's leading state broadcaster develop a news Web site. He joined hands with the Communist Youth League, a power base in the ruling party, in a risky television venture, his China managers and advisers say. . . . Murdoch cooperates closely with China's censors and state broadcasters, several people who worked for him in China say. He cultivates political ties that he hopes will insulate his business ventures from regulatory interference, these people say. ... (Murdoch's) Star TV overhauled its programming to suit Chinese tastes. In 1994 it dropped BBC News, which had frequently angered Chinese officials with its reports on mainland affairs. ... In 1996, he entered a joint venture with Liu Changle, a former radio host for the People's Liberation Army who had connections with propaganda officials. . . But Phoenix also tended to steer clear of the most sensitive political topics and could be bombastically nationalistic. ... After Phoenix proved a hit, Ding Guangen, a hard-liner who exercised sweeping control over all Chinese news media as chief of the country's Propaganda Department, granted Murdoch his first meeting. So did Zhu Rongji, then the prime minister. ... When Murdoch learned that China Central Television, known as CCTV, was struggling to develop a news Web site, he dispatched a team from Fox News to help design and operate one. ... James Murdoch, a son who ran Star TV from 2000 to 2003, said in a speech in Los Angeles in 2001 that Western reporters in China supported "destabilizing forces" that were "very, very dangerous for the Chinese government." He lashed out at the Falun Gong spiritual sect, which had just endured brutal repression in China, calling it "dangerous and apocalyptic." The Journal won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the suppression of the Falun Gong movement in 2001. |
| WordyBird | Posted – 7/18/2007 11:21:36 AM | show profile I can see it now: MyWallStreetSpace |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 7/18/2007 12:15:18 PM | show profile If journalism has an antiChrist, I'm thinking Rupert fits the bill. |
