Mediamatters4america: The Big Picture, Dec 2, 2011

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This week on The Big Picture, the hacking scandal surrounding News Corp widens. One conservative seems to be arguing in favor of murdering Occupy Wall Street protesters. And it looks like our troops might finally be coming home from the war on Christmas.

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Al Jazeera English: Rupert Murdoch's Watergate

This story is about Rupert Murdoch's Watergate - the phone hacking scandal, the extent of the crime and the implications for News Corp.

When a reporter with the British tabloid News of the World was jailed for illegally tapping into the phones of high profile names back in 2007, the newspaper insisted it was the work of a rogue reporter.


The newspaper and its parent company News International continue to maintain this position.


But as more cases of phone hacking were brought to light and senior News of the World staff members implicated, the company finally conceded that the practice of phone tapping had been widely used within the organisation.


It has since publicly apologized to all the victims and has reportedly put around $33mn into a compensation fund.

The scandal not only reveals Rupert Murdoch's influence in British politics, but also on the journalistic integrity of one of the world's most powerful media empires." Al Jazeera indicates News of the World may have illegally tapped 7,000 phones.

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Rupert Murdoch's Watergate - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English

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Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for Fox News Online

Aug 6 2009, 10:09 am
by Derek Thompson

Rightardia comment: What a brilliant idea. Perhaps Rush Limbaugh will follow suit. 

Rupert Murdoch announced plans to charge for all online content of his newspaper and TV empire. The move was made due to declining profits of the Murdoch empire.

This is a bold move to boost revenue from online news, but it may be doomed to fail. Murdoch's News Corp empire spans the globe, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Fox News and Australian media.

Gawker says the move has "fail written all over it." Andrew Sullivan (who gets a check from Murdoch's News Corp for a Sunday column) gives it more of a chance.

Asking readers to pay for FoxNews.com is like charging $10 for an after-dinner mint. That's not just my liberal commie instincts talking up: It would be true for CNN.com or any site subsisting on the lifeblood of AP wire stories.

If the bulk of your site is expendable, borrowed, or fungible with Google News, there's no reason to pay a dime for it.

See the rest of the story at  http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/08/is_murdochs_plan_to_charge_for_online_news_doomed.php


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