{"id":19914,"date":"2014-07-23T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19914"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T21:39:18","slug":"get-to-know-rupert-murdoch-the-man-who-wants-to-buy-time-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19914","title":{"rendered":"Get To Know Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Wants To Buy Time Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week there was a surprising announcement that international media baron Rupert Murdoch had made a bid to expand his empire even further. He submitted an offer to acquire Time Warner in an $80 billion stock transaction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Humor\/notw-murdochalypse11.jpg\" alt=\"Rupert Murdoch\" width=\"500\" height=\"643\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17762\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/News-Corpse\/117899091558228?v=wall\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Like me on Facebook\">Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This would be an atrocious development for a myriad of reasons. It would create an anti-competitive monopoly in several media markets including film production and distribution, and cable TV operations. Furthermore it would make Murdoch the most powerful force in media with control over an unprecedented percentage of both news and entertainment businesses. This would only enhance his already dominant position in worldwide newspaper publishing and satellite television.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch has demonstrated his cravenly biased approach to business management with his current corporate holdings. These include the world&#8217;s most flagrant disseminator of right-wing propaganda, Fox News. Particularly notable is the shift at the Wall Street Journal where, prior to his acquisition, it was a respected leader in business and general reporting. Today it is a hollow shell of its former glory. It had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for news journalism thirty-four times in its celebrated history, but has not received a single one since Murdoch assumed control seven years ago and turned it into just another of his tabloid rags.<\/p>\n<p>Taking all of that into consideration, it is important to know precisely the sort of man who is proposing to become the head of the most powerful media conglomerate in history. So here is a brief summary of Murdoch&#8217;s recent resume:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Murdoch&#8217;s News of the World hacked into phone and email accounst of hundreds of private citizens, celebrities, and politicians, including a murdered schoolgirl.<\/li>\n<li>Murdoch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=17753\" target=\"_blank\">called the victims<\/a> of his hacking <em>&#8220;scumbags.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Murdoch&#8217;s New York Post repeatedly publishes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8358\" target=\"_blank\">racist political cartoons<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Murdoch posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8471\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Semitic Tweet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Murdoch&#8217;s criminal enterprise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1328\" target=\"_blank\">protects him<\/a> from any negative reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Murdoch&#8217;s Fox News deployed hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10750\" target=\"_blank\">fake blog accounts<\/a> in order to rebut critics on the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Murdoch&#8217;s companies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=17753\" target=\"_blank\">deleted incriminating emails<\/a> to avoid responsibility in the hacking scandal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scope of the corporate megalith that would result from a Murdoch takeover of Time Warner should be more than enough to prohibit the acquisition. It would create an unholy monopoly that our anti-trust laws were specifically put in place to prevent. But the depraved and criminal character of Rupert Murdoch should also be a fatal impediment to a Time Warner deal. There are morals clauses in business that ought to exempt Murdoch from completing this purchase. In fact, they ought to force him out of his current position and commence a discussion of whether his citizenship should be revoked.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in taking some concrete action to hold Murdoch accountable and protest the proposed Time Warner deal, Media Matters has started a <a href=\"http:\/\/action.mediamatters.org\/murdoch-time-warner?utm_campaign=murdochtw1a&#038;utm_medium=social-media&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">petition to fight back<\/a> against Murdoch&#8217;s encroaching media tyranny. Please sign it and share it with everyone you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week there was a surprising announcement that international media baron Rupert Murdoch had made a bid to expand his empire even further. He submitted an offer to acquire Time Warner in an $80 billion stock transaction. Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook This would be an atrocious development for a myriad of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Get To Know Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Wants To Buy Time Warner","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[33,30,1095],"class_list":["post-19914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-media","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-time-warner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/notw-murdochalypse11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5bc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1207,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1207","url_meta":{"origin":19914,"position":0},"title":"Peter Chernin Breaking Up With Rupert Murdoch","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/23\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The most talked about thing on the Fox studio lot this morning, after Slumdog Millionaire's eight Oscars, has got to be the news that CEO Peter Chernin is heading for the exit. 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Maybe it's just a typical rebellious child, establishing a separate identity from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1062,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1062","url_meta":{"origin":19914,"position":3},"title":"Rupert Murdoch: True To Form","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/20\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last May News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch attended the All Things Digital Conference and made a few headlines with his commentary on the presidential election: \"[Murdoch] on Wednesday predicted a Democratic landslide in the U.S. presidential election against a gloomy economic backdrop over the next 18 months.\" That sort of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6228,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6228","url_meta":{"origin":19914,"position":4},"title":"Rupert Murdoch Calls Blogosphere Terrorists For Opposing SOPA","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/18\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's good to know that the Chairman of the parent company of Fox News isn't a histrionic panic-monger who wallows in absurd hyperbole. 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While creative endeavors are entitled to exercise license in the pursuit of effective storytelling, it is reasonable to observe a certain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Rupert Murdoch On Egypt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/murdoch-egypt-white.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/murdoch-egypt-white.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/murdoch-egypt-white.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19929,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions\/19929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}