By Stephen Foster on March 29, 2011
The row over Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy all of BSkyB in the UK rumbles on and, underlying it all, is the fear that he might impose Fox News or its equivalent on the UK. Which he still might (if he’s successful) despite his promise to the coalition government to park Sky News in a [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, Davy Crockett, fox news, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Jim Bowie, Rupert Murdoch, Santa Anna, sky, sky news, the alamo
By Angie Dean on March 22, 2011
Spoofing talk and news shows is an old advertising stand-by but it’s getting harder to do as the supposedly straight broadcast versions get crazier. Think Fox News which should have nurses in the studio. But this campaign from Pereira & O’Dell for CytoSport’s Muscle Milk is genuinely funny and director Jim Hosking from Skunk has [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Clay Matthews, cytosport, fox news, Jim Hosking, Jim Kite, muscle milk, pereira o'dell, Ryan Braun, skunk
By Stephen Foster on March 2, 2011
Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen is like one of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns.’ You know he’s going to do something absolutely crazy but you never know quite what. Currently Charlie is waging war on CBS and Warner Brothers which produces the top-rating programme as he demands, in his more lucid moments, an [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged CBS, Charlie Sheen, fox news, Rupert Murdoch, the news of the world, the sun, two and a half men, warner brothers
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2011
According to this commercial for meetgayprofessionals.com it can be anyway. Apparently it’s been on Fox News and all sorts of other places you wouldn’t expect to find it. But whatever happened to the road crash victim? It’s funny but unsettling, which I suppose is the point. No idea who the agency is, if you do [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged commercial, fox news, meetgayprofessionals.com, us
By Stephen Foster on November 23, 2010
He may be the most unpopular media mogul since the term was invented but Rupert Murdoch’s drive for (even more) world domination continues with the $360m acquisition of Wireless Generation, a US education software provider. The move follows hard on the heels of Murdoch signing up former New York City education boss Joel Klein to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Bill O'Reilly, financial times, fox news, Joel Klein, Pearson, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, wireless generation
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