Have you ever noticed how the media is sometimes used as a weapon of mass destruction? Example: News Headline: Jews are Ruining the Economy! Result: Krystallnacht and 6 million Dead Jews. Rupert Murdoch wields News Limited as his private editorial rapier, slashing, trimming, opining and burning. Burning institutions, politicians, industrialists, bankers, entrepreneurs. [...]
It has been pointed out to me that the comparative figures I used for this article – i.e.: News International and News Digital Media are for differing markets and therefore not really capable of being used comparatively. Therefore the conclusions based on those assumptions are withdrawn and readers should disregard the findings of 95.86% [...]
We’re on the verge of an infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. You might say we’re going to be seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political system, our ideologies, and our beliefs. Richard Heinberg. July 2006 On the [...]
How about this….. News Corp and Google get into bed together! And Rupert has now got Google to basically pay him back for his purchase and a lot more so by 2010 News Corp are more than whole! What deal makers these guys are! Wow. News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) [...]
Some time ago I blogged here about the MySpace account that had been set up to send up Comrade Rupert. About a week later the link that I set up was non-functional. The page had obviously been pulled down by the proprieters. Earlier this week I blogged about Rupert's speech in London…. At the time [...]
Reading Charlene Li's blog at Forrester Research I found this intereresting piece of data. Forrester reckons there will be 12 million regular podcast listeners by 2010 and not surprisingly they will be split between mass market and niche (presumably amateur) programming. But here is the interesting thing. I found this out because I downloaded a [...]