The big, recent example of this phenomenon is the “HackGate” scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which hit the headlines at a fortuitous time for the Huffington Post (an AOL site that I work with).
Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from being able to search its Web sites. In November 2009, I posted, "Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead. I said "maybe Murdoch should think twice before pulling the plug on 25 percent of WSJ.com's...
The most exuberant headline (based on a genuine poll finding) was in the Sunday Times, a newspaper part of Rupert Murdoch's News International group. It was a TV debate followed by opinion polls and then TV and newspaper coverage, which has blown...
Is Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp.crazy like a fox, or is he about to turn the best selling Sunday broadsheet in Britain into a newsletter? At SES Chicago 2009, Jeff Jarvis said that the big old publishers, such as...
But it appears that Rupert Murdoch is trying to shift the blame for News Corp's inability to adapt fast enough to the new "link economy" by stirring up what Jarvis calls "Google bigotry. What would Google do, Jeff Jarvis, slams Rupert Murdoch over...
Two weeks ago, I commented on Rupert Murdoch's threat that News Corp.was thinking of blocking Google from being able to search its Web sites: "Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead. Even if Murdoch decides to block Google, these navigational search queries...
Founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch claims Google is stealing their content - the "content kleptomaniacs" as he has termed them. Interestingly, in the interview Murdoch said there were no news or blog sites that were making big money or more than a...
Rupert Murdoch inherited a few newspapers in Australia decades ago that were in the red. Murdoch is the stuff of legends in the newspaper and traditional media arena. But Murdoch needs to step aside for younger minds to guide his giant into the...
News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch Murdoch, owner of The Wall Street Journal, doesn't have such a bleak outlook: Advertisers have vastly more choices online than on paper, so newspaper Web sites win only a fraction of the advertising that...
