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News Corporation said on Sunday that it had no record of being notified by the Justice Department nearly three years ago of a subpoena for the telephone records of a reporter at its Fox News cable channel. The company’s chief legal counsel at the time also said that he had never seen material from the government related to the subpoena. The Justice Department has signaled that it notified News Corporation on Aug. 27, 2010, that it had seized the phone records of a Fox News reporter — who turned out to be the Washington correspondent James Rosen — after one...

NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, the foundation's records show....The following list includes news media organizations that have donated to the foundation, as well as other media networks, companies, foundations or individuals that have donated. It is organized by the size of the contribution:....$1,000,000-$5,000,000 Carlos Slim Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder James Murdoch Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century Fox Newsmax Media Florida-based conservative media network

The horror...the horror... As some of you might be aware, actor Randy Quaid seems to have taken a long mental trip up the river into his personal Heart of Darkness. The viral video he has just posted from there is at the same time fascinating, repulsive, scary, profane, and definitely quite disturbing so a warning  about the strong language along with images hard to remove from memory before watching it. An edited cleaned up version of the previous video is below followed by a description of the original video from USA Today:

Few individual investors have quite as much capital to deploy as Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. Through his Kingdom Holding , he holds significant stakes in companies including Citigroup C -0.41%, Twitter TWTR +1.28% – and, until recently, News Corporation. The Prince hasn’t sold out completely – he still owns about 1% of the company, as well as a separate 6.6% shareholding in 21st Century Fox Inc which in itself is worth about $1.7 billion – but he previously also held 6.6% of News Corp NWSA 0%, or a total of 13.184 million class B shares. He’s shed...

Excerpted from "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" Imagine a world without the New York Times, Fox News, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and countless other tools used by the 1 percent to rule and fool. In a socialist society run by and for the working people it represents, the mega-monopolies like Walmart, Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, and the corporations that run the tightly controlled “mainstream media” will be a thing of the past. It’s not news that the major US media are run by and for big business, or that the major media companies are themselves big businesses. Twenty years ago,...

...Rupert Murdock, Rupert Murdock's Kid, Roger Ailes, News Corporation and the Rommney Campaign.

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday announced the creation of a new unit to share content and resources across his vast media empire. John Moody, executive vice president at the FOX News television channel, will head the operation, News Corp. said in a statement. "In this new role, Moody will collaborate with news chiefs across all News Corporation properties to improve news gathering efficiencies and identify areas of cost savings," the statement said. It said Moody "will also investigate the company's worldwide contracts and reliance on global news services." "The creation of a new unit designed to share valuable...

With a Fox business channel likely to launch, a cable brawl is ready to begin On Dec. 15, the Time Warner ( ) cable channel CNNfn aired its final programs after years of languishing behind CNBC's business news fare. Not that CNBC ( ) doesn't have problems of its own. Its ratings have plummeted since the Internet boom went bust. And CNBC's ever-changing prime-time schedule never seems to click with viewers. Bringing financial news to TV is no sure bet. So why does News Corp. ( ) Chairman Rupert Murdoch think he can muscle into financial TV news? Murdoch has...

February 21, 2003 VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, whose brilliance on the mound captivated fans in the 1960s and defined the Dodgers' greatest era in Los Angeles, has severed ties with the club in protest of another News Corp. subsidiary. Koufax, a very private man who established a standard for pitching excellence in four of the most dominant seasons in the game's history from 1963-66, recently informed the Dodgers he would no longer attend spring training here at Dodgertown, visit Dodger Stadium or participate in activities while they are owned by the media conglomerate, because...

Global TV coverage is increasingly turning against the US, with attitudes towards the US administration falling to an all-time low in December, according to research. According to analysis of TV news around the world, the British broadcast media is taking a hard line on the US, with 33% of all stories being classed as negative. The researchers behind the statistics have warned the coverage is likely become even more negative following the widespread coverage of the weekend's peace marches and an avalanche of opinion-based programmes such as the BBC's Iraq: Britain Decides have prompted. The figures have been released as...

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Long-time "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak is moving back into the talk-show arena. The Fox News Channel has hired Sajak to serve as host of a weekly Sunday-night talk show, according to the Wall Street Journal. The show is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. ET, leading into "At Large with Geraldo Rivera." Sajak is not a stranger to talk shows, although his last foray into the genre didn't go so well. He hosted "The Pat Sajak Show" on CBS in 1989 and '90. It was first attempt in many years to challenge "The Tonight...

<p>Jim Walton, the new CEO of CNN, went to work at the network 22 years ago as a video journalist, a weighty title for the bottom-rung, low-pay job of delivering tapes and other gofer work. The infant network employed 200.</p>

Rupert Murdoch's Twentieth Century Fox is facing a furious backlash from film fans who have received unsolicited phone calls to promote the video and DVD of its Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. The film giant this week launched Britain's first voicemail message campaign to persuade film buffs to buy the movie. It marks a significant development in the aggressive world of direct marketing - consumers have had to tolerate junk-mail on their door mat for years, and are now battling with the electronic equivalent, spam emails - but it is believed this is the first time anyone has attempted a...

Although it produced one of the most exciting post-season baseball contests ever, the 2002 World Series failed to attract big audiences -- even for the final two games, according to preliminary Nielsen results. Saturday's 13.5 rating and 22 share for Game 6 of the Anaheim Angels/San Francisco Giants series produced a 13.5 rating and a 22 share -- down 11 percent from the sixth game of the 2001 series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Sunday's concluding game, which averaged a 16.5/23, was 27 percent below the seventh game of last year's series. Ratings for both games,...

Although Fox saw ratings for Game 4 of the World Series drop 22 percent below those for the comparable game a year ago, the 4-3 victory of the San Francisco Giants over the Anaheim Angels Wednesday night guaranteed that the series will go at least six games (and could go seven) and will, if nothing else, allow the network to fulfill audience guarantees to advertisers and thereby avoid having to give them "make goods" to offset the ratings fall. Wednesday night's game averaged a 12.4 rating and an 18 share in prime time vs. a 16.0/24 for last year's year's...

Despite a third well-played and exciting World Series contest between the Anaheim Angels and the San Francisco Giants (even given the Angels' 10-4 rout), ratings for the all-West-Coast series continued to lag well behind last year's. Tuesday night's game, according to Nielsen overnights, recorded a 12.4 rating and an 18 share during primetime versus last year's 16.9/25 for the third game between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks -- a 26-percent drop. Nevertheless, Fox, which carried the game, easily beat out its rivals for the night, although CBS strongly challenged with an average 10.4/15. And even ABC managed...

Despite offering more drama than a week's worth of TV medical shows, Sunday night's Fox telecast of Game 2 of the World Series was down in the ratings 29 percent from the comparable game a year ago. The back-and-forth game between the Anaheim Angels and the San Francisco Giants (won by the Angels 11-10) scored an 11.2 rating and a 16 share from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. But although it put Fox in first place for the night during all time periods, the numbers paled in comparison with the 15.6/23 for Game 2 of last year's contest between the...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The all-California Classic opened with the lowest overnight ratings for a prime-time World Series Game 1. But it still was by far the night's most-watched show. Fox Sports' telecast of the San Francisco Giants' 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Angels on Saturday drew an 11.2 rating. That means 11.2 percent of TV homes in the country's largest markets tuned in. It's a drop of 5 percent from Game 1 of last year's World Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Yankees, which had an 11.8 overnight rating on Fox. The 2000 opener of the Subway Series...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. told investors at the Goldman Sachs Media Conference he would be "interested" in DirecTV if it became available again. The satellite TV provider is owned by General Motors and is currently pursuing a merger with EchoStar, which is seeking regulatory approval to buy the company. "Naturally we are watching what is happening, should GMH come around again, we would look at it," Murdoch said. "But we would would look very carefully." Shares of Hughes were unchanged at $9.15 per share in early NYSE action on Tuesday. EchoStar fell 47 cents to $20.52.

Fox News Channel is the most biased major media outlet toward Muslims, Ibrahim Hooper, communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told this website. His group is asking members to contact FNC CEO Roger Ailes to express concern over the purported anti-Islam bias. Hooper, who gets copies of the e-mails sent to Fox, said the network station has received thousands of complaints. Hooper cited the recent Florida "terror scare" as part of Fox's inflammatory reporting. While CNN's Larry King was pretty even-handed in interviewing the suspected terrorists, a Fox interviewee demanded they take a Fox-paid lie detector test, according...