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Rupert Murdoch
A community portal about Rupert Murdoch with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Rupert Keith Murdoch AC, KCSG, is an Australian-American global media executive and is the top shareholder, chairman and managing... [more]
A community portal about Rupert Murdoch with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Rupert Keith Murdoch AC, KCSG, is an Australian-American global media executive and is the top shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York City.
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For months (years?) Rupert Murdoch has been waving his jowls around and shouting that Google is stealing from him by not paying to index his material. And all along, we've been saying, "Pffft, right. If you don't like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index you. Until you do, stop whining and put it back in your pants." Now Rupert has promised to do exactly that. He claims that he's going to take all of News Corp's...
- Rupert Murdoch Wife To Produce Chinese Period Drama (search.msn.com)
- What’s Murdoch’s ‘cool new toy’ for accessing media content? (journalism.co.uk)
- Rupert Rips The Kindle (feedburner.com)
mUmBRELLA:
Murdoch: We'll probably remove our sites from Google's index — Rupert Murdoch has suggested that News Corporation is likely to make its content unfindable to users on Google when it launches its paid content strategy . — When Murdoch and other senior News Corp lieutenants …
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http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=1170"If Rudd thinks we can set an example for the rest of the world with a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions – the ETS – all it would do is push up the cost of living in Australia and the rest of the world will laugh."
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- Where Rupert Murdoch & Jeff Zucker Spent their Sunday (mediabistro.com)
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp said it will launch Cielo, a new free-to-air digital TV channel, in Italy on the digital terrestrial network. Slated for a December launch, Cielo (which is Italian for Sky) will compete with Berlusconi’s Mediaset.
The new channel will be based in Milan and will not be part of the Sky Italia operation. [...]
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- Murdoch enters Italy's free TV field (search.msn.com)
- Murdoch's paywall plans could attract anti-trust regulation (editorsweblog.org)
- Inside Lachlan Murdoch's $21 Million Mansion (gawker.com)
Is Rupert Murdoch flip-flopping on paywalls again? Way back when (i.e., two years ago) Murdoch was a big believer in the idea that news should be free online, and that he could more than make it up with other business models. But, then, earlier this year, he did a complete flip-flop, declaring that all his publications would put up paywalls, saying that free content is bad, and accusing aggregators and search engines of "stealing" content...
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