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By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fit person, fox, James Murdoch, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news of the world, ofcom, one-eyed monster, over-mighty legislators, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, star tv, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on November 10, 2011
Shares in embattled Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset media empire (which spans pay and terrestrial TV, newspapers and magazines) were suspended for a period yesterday as investors headed for the exit. The shares have lost 20 per cent of their value in the last five days and fell 12 per cent on Wednesday. Even [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged eurozone, fininvest, italy, magazines, mediaset, mondadori, newspapers, pay-tv, prime minister, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia
By Stephen Foster on March 11, 2011
Common wisdom says that media magnate Rupert Murdoch, 80 today, is tidying up his empire with retirement in mind, hence the bid to buy the 61 per cent of pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB his News Corporation doesn’t already own. And the rather generous decision to buy daughter Elizabeth’s Shine TV production company for £415m with Liz [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, elizabeth murdoch, fox, James Murdoch, new york post, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, sky deutschland, Sky Italia, star, Sun, Sunday Times, the times, wall street journals
By Stephen Foster on January 16, 2011
Some more details have emerged about Italian media magnate and prime minister (mustn’t forget that) Silvio Berlusconi and his antics in the so-called bunga bunga scandal. Milan prosecutors want to charge him with paying for sex with nightclub dancer Karima El Mahroug (she’s had a few names this girl), also known as Ruby Rubacuori, which [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bunga bunga, Karima El Mahroug, mediaset, milan prosecutors, mondadori, publitalia, Ruby Rubacuori, Rupert Murdoch, sex scandal, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, Vladimir Putin
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