“Hopefully we’ll get some real actions on guns tomorrow, not just some stage managed stunt. This is federal imperative, not for states.”
“Mr. Murdoch may not know much about computers, but he has an intuitive understanding of how Twitter is supposed to work. By mixing the personal and political, propaganda and plain old rants, he is serving his interests and the interests of his company. He will no doubt make some missteps — two days after he started tweeting, he caused an uproar when he called Britain a “broke country” — but in general, his embrace of social media has gone well. (It will be interesting to see if Mr. Murdoch does some Twitter spinning the next time News Corporation hits a rough patch in the hacking scandal.)
After a month of reading Mr. Murdoch’s posts, I have to say there’s something refreshing about the directness of the medium and, yes, the man using it.
He’s even managed to express some humility amid the bravado. “Many questions and jokes about My Space. simple answer — we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons.”
This week’s cover: Rupert Murdoch is the last member of a dying breed. Time for him to step back
“It is positive development that in addition to ongoing probes in the UK, the FBI has launched an investigation into the conduct of News Corp. employees. These inquiries must allow for a full public airing of the behavior of these irresponsible news outlets. If criminal behavior is found to have occurred, I hope those liable are prosecuted.
However there is also a need for a broader conversation about how the media has fallen down on its responsibilities — not by tapping the phones of celebrities, politicians and victims of crimes and terrorist attacks – but by failing to insure the public is truly informed about the most pressing issues of the day.”
Al Gore weighs in on hacking scandal
Gore, of course, has been locked in battle with News Corp. lately over its subsidiary Sky Italia’s decision to drop Current TV. Gore claimed that the channel was dropped because it hired Keith Olbermann, a frequent News Corp critic, but News Corp insiders told The Guardian it was because the two sides couldn’t reach a commercial agreement. - POLITICO
There was plenty of drama in London Tuesday when Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks testified before a committee of Parliament about the phone-hacking and alleged police-bribing scandal rocking Britain. Jeffrey Brown discusses the proceedings with The New York Times’ John Burns and NPR’s David Folkenflik.
Updated NYTimes: Interactive graphic on key figures in the phone hacking scandal
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Rupert Murdoch’s empire, in graphical form: Tumblr’s new multi-photo layout feature seems really freaking cool to us. So we had this idea for seeing how we’d use it to present news. Our subject? Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. — mainly, to emphasize the scope of the dude’s empire. We created this in about an hour using InDesign. Enjoy! (Some sources we used: Mogulite, L.A. Times, The Guardian, The National Post, News Corp.)
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@WendiMurdoch: I like to karate chop hippies. You have a cream pie, I have fists of steel.
WSJ: Here’s an annotated image of the pie attack on Rupert Murdoch, which identifies key figures in the room.
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“I think that, frankly, I am the best person to clean this up.”
Murdoch pie thrower is an “activist, comedian, father figure and all-round nonsense.”
Rupert Murdoch is attacked by a member of the public while appearing before MPs. His wife Wendy Deng attempted to strike the attacker. Info via - @journalismnews
Reports say attacker had plate with white foam (shaving cream pie).
