{"id":518,"date":"2007-07-12T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=518"},"modified":"2007-07-12T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T19:42:06","slug":"where-theres-smoke-theres-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Where There’s Smoke, There’s Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of activity in the News Corp. boardroom these days. Fox News just announced that their Fox Business Network will launch October 15, 2007. The Dow Jones acquisition, while not a certainty, is still proceeding apace. So it is always good to review what sort of service we can expect from News Corp. properties. PR Watch<\/a> gives us another good example for why we have a right to worry about the expanding influence of Rupert Murdoch and Co.<\/p>\n

[Philip Morris] cultivated a close relationship with Murdoch, and it has served PM’s interests admirably. An internal PM issue presentation titled The Perspective of PM International of Smoking and Health Issues<\/em>, states PM’s intent to exploit its relationship with Murdoch:<\/span><\/p>\n

A number of media proprietors … are sympathetic to our position – Rupert Murdoch and Malcolm Forbes are two good examples. The media like the money they make from our advertisements and they are an ally that we can and should exploit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>The PM document goes on to brag about how, “Murdoch’s papers rarely publish anti-smoking articles these days.”<\/em> This was hardly a happy coincidence of editorial policy given that Murdoch was serving on the board of Philip Morris, and PM CEO Geoffrey C. Bible later joined the board of News Corp.<\/p>\n

Murdoch has already promised<\/a> that the Fox Business Network would be more “business friendly.”<\/em> These revelations demonstrate just how intimate that friendship can be. How could anyone take such a network seriously? And how will anyone ever be able to take the Wall Street Journal seriously again, if Murdoch’s bid succeeds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of activity in the News Corp. boardroom these days. Fox News just announced that their Fox Business Network will launch October 15, 2007. The Dow Jones acquisition, while not a certainty, is still proceeding apace. So it is always good to review what sort of service we can expect from News Corp. 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