Posted on 03/11/2010 4:47:56 PM PST by kingattax
Its official now. This explains a lot of whats happened recently. Rupert Murdoch is moving his NewsCorp headquarters to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. You can kiss fair and balanced FoxNews good-bye.
Breitbart has the story here:
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday that the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi is to become the headquarters of his global media empire in the Middle East.
Addressing some 400 delegates at the opening of the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Murdoch said his corporation had started out as a small Australian firm to become a US-based international company that employs 64,000 people.
I have every confidence that Arab companies can do the same and more. I also believe that Abu Dhabi can lead the way. Murdoch said News Corp would headquarter its Middle Eastern global online advertising operations in Abu Dhabi, and move a number of satellite television channels to the capital of the United Arab Emirates from Hong Kong.
We will (also) establish a production office here for one of our documentary film-making companies, he said.
When we look to the future, News Corporation is betting on the creative potential of the more than 335 million people who make up the Arab world, he added.
Organised by the Abu Dhabi government, the three-day summit is expected to address the potential of the emerging media markets in the Middle East, India and China.
Mohammed Khalaf al-Mazruei, who heads the Abu Dhabi Media Company, told delegates that the Middle East is experiencing radical change, and that its media should accompany this revolution.
News Corp has already established strong links with the region, last month agreeing to invest 70 million dollars in the Rotana Group, which is controlled by Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, after buying a 9.0 percent stake in the firm.
Alwaleeds Kingdom holding company also owns around 7.0 percent of News Corps class B common stock.
How comforting that is for all of us who once looked to FoxNews as the last bastion of conservative television news and comment.
"From La Lydia | 03/12/2010 3:45:53 PM PST read
And you are a condescending prick."
Well, I have ask you twice to explain your statement on Murdoch’s none loyalty to the country and you refuse to explain yourself, which is fine. I will not respond to your post again.
He is a global — international — businessman. His loyalty is to his corporations, not to any particular national entity. If something he does, or doesn’t do, turns out to benefit our country, all well and good. If it damages us but benefits his business interests, that is fine with him. But he is not making businesses decisions based on any particular loyalty to the United States. Likewise, he abandoned his native Australia and became an American citizen because it was convenient for his business, not because he was struck with an irresistible longing to live under our Constitution. And I resent you calling me a liar.
I happen to believe that the earth is billions of years old ...
That’s nice, now look at how odd your posting on this thread has been, including that one.
Strange. You agree that my post is nice but say it is odd. I think it is odd that you have an obsession with my posts.
I was saying it is nice that you have thoughts about the age of the earth, but weird that you keep wanting to tell me about such irrelevant things on this thread.
You are an odd fellow and I just don’t know what your posts on this thread are supposed to mean.
From the article: "Murdoch said News Corp would headquarter its Middle Eastern global online advertising operations in Abu Dhabi, and move a number of satellite television channels to the capital of the United Arab Emirates from Hong Kong."
Is there anyone in the "media" that will not misrepresent the facts in a headline?
Did you bother to read the article?
Did you read the article or believe the headline?
I don't think your obsession with my posts is irrelevant when you keep posting to me.
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