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Markets Slammed by Lehman Collapse

2008-10-04T10:49:17Z

Dow drops more than 500 points or 4.5 percent as investors panic after Lehman Brothers files for chapter 11.

Headzup: Let Our Economy Win! (McCain's Latest Attack Ad)

2008-10-12T02:47:19Z

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John McCain releases his latest attack ad dealing with Black Monday, the economy in crisis, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Merril Lynch crisis and the Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac rescue.

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Murdoch Swallows Dow Jones, Video #4

2008-10-12T02:24:47Z

News Hounds Archived Video
Your World with Neil Cavuto
July 31, 2007

The FOURTH segment in one 60-minute show devoted to Rupert the Great's acquisition of Dow Jones. Another panel discussion, this featuring Scott Bleier, Tobin Smith, Gary B. Smith and Alexis Glick.

What you see in these four videos is the beginning of a long-term, strategic propaganda campaign against CNBC and its parent company General Electric.

Murdoch's malicious minions have begun to trash the names GE, CNBC and NBC.

This group of companies is clearly competition to News Corps and Murdoch has no qualms about requiring that his paid business analysts push an agenda that erodes confidence in his chief competitors.

This isn't news - business or otherwise.

With Murdoch, you get controlled news and back-stabbing gutter tactics, cleverly designed to weaken rivals and/or bring down any politician or person in power who doesn't dance to the Murdoch tune.

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Murdoch Swallows Dow Jones, Video #2

2008-10-12T02:24:47Z

News Hounds Archived Video
Your World with Neil Cavuto
July 31, 2007

A panel discussion singing the praises of the Murdoch takeover of Dow Jones, featuring Neil Cavuto, Jerry Bowyer, Ben Stein and Frank Ahrens (Washington Post business writer).

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Murdoch Swallows Dow Jones, Video #3

2008-10-12T02:24:47Z

News Hounds Archived Video
Your World with Neil Cavuto
July 31, 2007

Neil Cavuto just couldn't get enough of this story (gee, I wonder why?).

This was the third segment on the topic of the News Corporation absorption of Dow Jones all in the same day. Cavuto's guest was Norman Pearlstine of the Carlyle Group, assuring everyone that the WSJ will be safe under Murdoch.

LOL!

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Murdoch Swallows Dow Jones, Video #1

2008-10-12T02:24:48Z

News Hounds Archived Video
Your World with Neil Cavuto
July 31, 2007

In July 2007 Rupert Murdoch won the approval of the Bancroft family and his bid to take over Dow Jones - which includes the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Factiva, etc. - became a certainty.

It remains to be seen if the rosy predictions expressed in these four videos will come to pass.

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On FBN, Asman, Halvorssen and Roth Demonize Hugo Chavez

2008-10-12T02:42:03Z

Rupert Murdoch's johnny-come-lately FOX Business Network continues sister company FOX News' disinformation campaign about Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela.

On June 9, 2008 FBN's David Asman interviewed Thor Halvorssen, an attractive, earnest young man from the former ruling class of Venezuela, and Charles Roth, an expert on Latin American finance who works for Murdoch's Dow Jones Newswires.

While FBN has every right to program partisan guests, in the interests of balance, it might be nice if they scheduled a pro-Chavez guest to counter the one-sided propaganda spread by people like Halvorssen and Roth.

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AP: News Corp. “Highly Unlikely” to Proceed With Dow Jones Buy(!!!)

2008-05-09T10:59:34Z

Associated Press reported this potentially good news today:

As of late Sunday, some 28 percent of the Bancrofts supported the deal, the Journal reported on Monday, but a News Corp. spokesman told the paper that the company was "highly unlikely" to proceed with the deal at that level of support. A News Corp. spokesman confirmed the remarks.
The Bancroft family, which has controlled Dow Jones for more than a century, has been deeply divided over whether to sell to Murdoch, largely over concerns that his hands-on management style could affect the papers' coverage.

I’ll believe it when the deal is finally dead, but keep your fingers crossed anyway. I really can’t think of any good reason why Murdoch’s empire needs to get any bigger and more powerful. Not one.

An Open Letter to Dow Jones Shareholders

2008-01-12T19:58:00Z

Matt Pottinger left his job as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal to join the Marines, where he is currently stationed in Anbar province (yikes!). While working in China, Pottinger got a first-hand look at how Murdoch’s News Corp. affiliate in China happily obeyed the wishes of the ruling Communist Party, even if it meant censoring writers, the BBC and news about the SARS outbreak. Despite what one might think about WSJ’s editorial page, the rest of the paper does some terrific reporting, and losing it to Murdoch’s propaganda/titillation machine would be a terrible blow to journalism. As Pottinger puts it in an open letter to Dow Jones shareholders:

Reporting the news in a foreign country whose government has little respect for the truth taught me many things, among them the doggedness and skepticism that are helpful in my current job. But mostly it taught me that the Journal isn't a commodity -- it's a vital national resource.

Read the whole letter here.