Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch

Even at 82 it seems that the only way to muzzle, let alone control, Rupert Murdoch is to bury a stake in his heart (and hedge your bets with copious quantities of garlic). The one-time Dirty Digger is back in ...

At the risk of joining Paul Simons’ grumpy old men, here’s the horrible new ad for the $20m relaunch of MySpace, the social network pioneer that was bought by Rupert Murdoch for $630m and sold a few years later for ...

It started out as a quixotic venture to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, then moved to a mooted £10m bid for Trinity Mirror’s Sunday People (one of those newspapers you’d forgotten had existed). Now it appears that Douglas (left), ...

Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote ...

John Malone’s Liberty Global, a big US-based cable company, is planning a bid for the UK’s Virgin Media according to the Financial Times. Virgin Media, in which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin holds just a three per cent stake (despite appearances ...

Football saved Rupert Murdoch’s (part-owned) BSkyB from an early grave and now the ever-active media mogul (in his ninth decade) is hoping it can extend the life-support system for his British newspapers. His News Corporation company News International has secured ...

Blimey, ‘independent directors’ standing up to Rupert Murdoch. These bods (not the same ones presumably) were first appointed in 1981 when Margaret Thatcher allowed owner of the Sun Rupert Murdoch to buy The Times and the Sunday Times. When, shortly ...

At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill ...

It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its ...