Canadian publisher attacks rival for deciding who to support in election

Torstar chief accuses Postmedia chief of failing his group’s newspaper readers by dictating federal election endorsements... for the losing partyIn Britain, where there are a dozen national newspaper titles, most of which are uninhibitedly partisan, it is not considered unduly surprising that proprietors call the political tune.Most deny it, of course, parroting disingenuous nonsense about allowing their editors to make up their own minds. Although Rupert Murdoch has owned up to telling Sun editors which party to support at general elections, he would have us believe that the editors of the Times and Sunday Times go their own way. Yeah, right. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]

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[ The Guardian | 2021-03-15 23:55:55 UTC ]
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News Corp agrees deal with Google over payments for journalism

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[ The Guardian | 2021-02-17 17:11:57 UTC ]
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Warning signs from the Biden-Trump split screen

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a suite of executive orders that transformed US climate-change policy. He mandated a pause on new oil and gas leases of federal land; instituted a major push to replace gas vehicles in the federal fleet with electric ones; directed agencies to eliminate... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review

[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-01-29 13:29:22 UTC ]
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Ex-PMs unite in Australia in bid to curb power of Murdoch empire

Former rivals to star in Leveson-style inquiry into mogul’s near-monopoly of the country’s mediaIn high public office, both men lived and died at the word of the world’s most influential media mogul, Rupert Murdoch. But now two former Australian prime ministers are at the vanguard of a campaign... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull challenge News Corp over reports of ‘foreign interference’ in petition

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[ The Guardian | 2020-11-18 08:02:35 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Bids for Simon & Schuster

A sale of the venerable publisher of Stephen King and Hillary Clinton could fetch $1.7 billion and rev up consolidation in book publishing. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Sir Harold Evans obituary

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