It’s been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it, but now they’ve admitted that all those files are lost: “As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest that you retain your back up copies. If you would like more information, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Dr. Jana Jentzsch at [email protected].”
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Ex-Fox News host: when I filed a sexual harassment claim against Ailes, the company hacked and stalked me
In a federal complaint against Fox News, former Outnumbered host Andrea Tantaros claims that after she filed a sexual harassment claim against the former CEO Roger Ailes, Fox News contracted with a psyops team to set up a “black room” to run a hate campaign that targeted her by cyberstalking her, implanting malware on her computer, and libeling her on “fake news” sites.
Wall Street Journal’s top editor says they won’t call Trump a liar when Trump lies
On this weekend’s Meet the Press, WSJ editor in chief Gerard Baker said that even when he was clear that Trump had uttered a falsehood, his paper would not call that falsehood a lie, because to do so would ascribe “moral intent” to Trump; instead, the WSJ will call Trump’s lies “challengeable” and “questionable.”
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Jeremy Corbyn overpays his taxes
The Sun, a Murdoch-owned UK tabloid, accused the socialist Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (previously) of dodging his fair share of taxes, claiming he understated his income from speeches by £450. After closer examination, it transpired that Corbyn overstated his earnings by £270 and paid tax on the full amount.
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Shortly after Murdoch buys National Geographic, he fires its award-winning journalists
When the climate-change denier/evil billionaire bought National Geographic, National Geographic Society CEO Greg Knell promised that “there won’t be an [editorial] turn in a direction that is different form the National Geographic heritage.” This week, the company fired some of its most senior, decorated staff.
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NewsCorp shareholders make another bid to democratize the Murdoch family empire
The traditional shareholder revolt at NewsCorp (owner of Fox, Fox News, Sky, Harper Collins, the NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Sun) is back for another run, and this time it’s gathering steam and may indeed make it. Rupert Murdoch and his family own a minority of the shares in NewsCorp, but their shares are in a special class of voting stock that means that they effectively get to do whatever they want with the majority investors’ money. Effectively, Murdoch’s initial pitch to investors was, “I’ll take your money, but I’m not interested in your advice — just cough up, shut up, and let me run this thing and I’ll pay you some fat dividends.”
But it’s all gone rather wrong. Murdoch’s ideological projects and nepotism have cost the business millions — between a sweetheart deal that saw the company buying his daughter Elisabeth’s startup Shine for £413M of the shareholders’ money, and his son James’s presiding over a phone-hacking scandal that destroyed News of the World, the bestselling newspaper (sic) in Britain, the investors are getting a bit tired of Murdoch running NewsCorp like his own personal fiefdom. It’s one thing to play Colonel Kurtz in the jungle when it’s making the shareholders rich, but when you start frittering away titanic assets like the NotW because you need to give your idiot son a job, well, that’s another story.
As I said, this isn’t the first time the shareholders have taken a swing at Rupert and his spawn, but this is a bigger, more multi-pronged, and better coordinated approach that any to date. Fingers crossed.
Dissident shareholders are pressing once more for the media mogul Rupert Murdoch to step down as chairman of News Corporation.
Shareholders from the US, UK and Canada filed a resolution on Tuesday, calling for News Corp to appoint an independent chairman. A similar resolution attracted strong support at the media company’s annual shareholder meeting last year.
The proposal was introduced by Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), which manages $4.6bn for Catholic institutions worldwide. It is backed by the UK’s Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, with assets of £115bn ($178.9bn), and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, one of Canada’s largest institutional investors.
In a separate resolution, Nathan Cummings Foundation, an ethical investment group, has called on News Corp to end the dual-class share structure that allows the Murdoch family to control its media empire despite owning a minority of shares.
Rupert Murdoch must step down as News Corporation chair – shareholders [Dominic Rushe/The Guardian]