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Nov 7, 00.15 - 01.00 Das Erste Medien, Macht, Milliarden - Die Murdochs Rupert Murdoch gilt heute als der mächtigste Medienmogul der Welt. Sein Privatvermögen wird auf 7 Milliarden Euro geschätzt. Die Dokumentation hat einen einzigartigen und exklusiven Zugang zu den Schlüsselfiguren und Familienmitgliedern. |
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DOCUMENTARY: What Have the Germans Done for Us? Channel: BBC 4 16th Feb, 22:00 to 22:40 A look at Germany's contribution to British culture, from the royal family to Blue Nun and the VW Beetle. Archive film and interviews show how German the British really are. |
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DOCUMENTARY: Everyman Channel: BBC 4 16th Feb, 23:10 to 23:50 (Two World Wars and One World Cup) Are the British too obsessed with what happened over 50 years ago? Is our anti-German attitude unhealthy? Everyman asks whether the obsession with our 'finest hour' could be causing us problems as a country and looks at the situation through the eyes of people with a foot in each camp. |
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Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 02:04 GMT 03:04 UK
By Andrew Walker (BBC News profiles unit ) To some he is little less than the devil incarnate, to others, the most progressive mover-and-shaker in the media business. Whatever the case, as head of a global broadcasting empire worth £30bn, Rupert Murdoch continues to provoke strong emotions. Encyclopedic Entry: Rupert Murdoch (Encarta) |
Plot Summary of Citizen Kane (1941)
Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in
his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: "Rosebud". In
an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks
down the people who worked and lived with Kane; they tell their stories
in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane's life but not
enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath.
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Murdoch wins China state TV deal Mr Murdoch is married to ex-Star executive Wendi Deng Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire has made another breakthrough into China's TV market. 20 Dec 2002, BBC |
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CHAIRMAN RUPERT'S LITTLE RED BUCKS Murdoch and the People's Daily try to make the Web safe for China's Communists. Illustration by Zach Trenholm |
Blair would allow Murdoch to take over
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MANCHESTER UNITED
NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that media tycoon Rupert Murdoch continues his international sport franchise shopping spree. Today, his company offered close to one billion dollars to purchase the Manchester United soccer team. Sep. 7, 1998 |
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United we stand Backing Bush ... Blair stands tall By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Deputy Political Editor BRITAIN and America are standing together and warning UN wobblers to back war on Iraq — or let tyrants take over the world. Jack Straw and Colin Powell spoke with one voice after UN inspectors confirmed Saddam Hussein is STILL hiding weapons of mass destruction. |
BLIX: STILL NO EVIDENCE Inspectors can not find any sign of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, UN told From Richard Wallace, US Editor In New York PRESIDENT Bush and Tony Blair were looking increasingly isolated last night as Hans Blix reported there is still NO evidence to support a war on Iraq. The UN's chief weapons inspector said his team had been unable to uncover any sign that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. |
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch explains why he backs war vs. Iraq By Chris Marsden 15 February 2003 World Socialist Web Site The publications of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire—including the New York Post in the US, Britain’s The Sun and News of the World, The Australian, and various newspapers and satellite TV channels around the world—number amongst the most vociferous supporters of a US-led war against Iraq. Screaming banner headlines, editorials and op-ed columns justify this stand with high-sounding invocations of the threat posed by Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein’s alleged backing for Al Qaeda and the uncritical regurgitation of whatever propaganda is currently being disseminated by Washington, London and Sydney. |
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For a paper's view on Iraq, just ask the owner That's why much of the press doesn't reflect public opinion, says Peter Preston The Observer , Sunday February 16, 2003 Rupert Murdoch's lieutenants (at least on the testimony of those who've safely left his pay corps) sometimes wish he'd button his lip a trifle more zealously. |
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Nikkala, from Middlesex, sat in the cockpit of one of the mighty Tornados and certainly went down a bomb with squadron members. Flight Lieutenant Hywel Jones, 26, said: “It’s great to have such a beautiful mascot. The support of The Sun and its millions of readers makes a big difference to morale.” (Read whole article) |
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So this is how Europe repays its WWII liberator and Cold War defender: They side with a tyrannical mass-murderer over the Land of the Free. Note to Old Europe: When you bite the hand that feeds you, don't be surprised if you wind up with a mouthful of fist. |
Love, war, weasels adorn tabloids
Editorial opinion on war with Iraq National Post, February 15, 2003 London's Daily Mirror used its front page yesterday to send a Valentine to Tony Blair and George W. Bush, while ... ...the New York Post also had fun with photo manipulation to comment on France and Germany's opposition to a U.S.-led war on Iraq. As the debate on a possible war with Iraq started at the United Nations yesterday, tabloid newspapers in London and New York took comment away from editorial pages and cartoons and plonked it on the front page, right in readers' faces Read more ... |
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Media war (The Indian Express, Tuesday, March 04, 2003) "An intensely competitive world media may make propaganda difficult if war breaks out in Iraq " "... columnists accusing Rupert Murdoch’s publications of echoing the proprietor’s pro-war bias ..." |
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German -German Relations in the tabloids: Paper: Daily Mirror, 17.7.1990 Caption: "Vell, Englander, answer ze kvestion! Vy do you not like us?" (words in "The Mirror": aggessive, bullying, sentimental, anxious to be liked, inferiority complex) Accompanying comment: In the wake of the publication of the Chequers memorandum about Germany and the Germans, a series of cartoons satirized the comments made about the German character. In this piece Griffin juxtaposes classic and modern stereotype features (monocle, duelling scar, lederhose, Tirolian hat; swimming trunks and beach towels in the German national colours, the latter on sunbeds) turning this British reader's holiday at the European beach into a nightmare. |
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Die britischen Boulevard-blätter und das Feindbild Deutschland Yellow Press langt wieder zu Aachener Nachrichten 15.11.02
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Historic Background to "Achtung!" and "Surrender!" : The Blitz (BBC resources)
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Sun ends price war |
RRRRAAAARRRR!! IT MAKES ME SO MAD by mattdrummer_2000 | 22.07.00 / 14.01.01 *********************************************** The best use I could think of for The Sun would be to mass circulate it as a weapon of war in an enemy country, and then watch that country self destruct as its populous jumps on every single stupid bandwagon sent rolling by said rag, eradicating all creative thought and reasoning. OK, maybe I'm being just slightly harsh, perhaps it is the population itself which is the problem by providing such huge demand for this monstrosity. However, I can't help feeling that The Sun is an awfully destructive force on the well being of this nation. This thing is breeding a nation of xenophobic, thoughtless zombies, as it rants and raves, creating for itself the image of being the 'people's paper' by supporting everything and everyone in sight, just so long as it's popular. Read more ... Source: Dooyoo |
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Robert Maxwell (1923-1991)British publisher and politician Robert Maxwell established a large media empire that included both British and American publishing companies. In 1984 he became chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers. (Encarta Encyclopedia) read more ...(online biography) |
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Sunday January 19, 2003 The Observer The Sun, which first supported Labour in 1997, has stayed onside. Last week the newly appointed editor Rebekah Wade was instructed by proprietor Rupert Murdoch to start exploiting public anxiety about New Labour's domestic policy failures. But an editorial still offered almost unqualified support on Iraq: 'His tough line is exactly right.' There was palpable relief in Downing Street that the paper's newfound domestic scepticism will not extend to the foreign arena. Unless, perhaps, military failure ensues. |
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Sunday Herald Sun Jan 19,2003 Media: Will Rebekah of Wapping shed The Sun's old clothes? Wade, 34, takes up the reins when The Sun -- dubbed the Squaddies' Favourite Read when it was shipped out to the troops in the Gulf War -- has a central role for Blair's government with a looming war in Iraq. Blair needs The Sun to support the conflict. (Profile of Rebekah Wade) |
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Jan 26, 2003
The Sun
Says:
Facts, please WE bow to no one in our backing for the Prime Minister over Iraq. He has taken a courageous stand for what he believes is right. And he has been commendably frank about the threat Saddam Hussein poses to mankind. But Tony Blair owes it to all the Servicemen and women he is sending to the Gulf to be equally frank about their health. Our revelation that one soldier in five has refused an anthrax jab shows how desperately worried the Forces are. They have a right to know the facts — including what went wrong before the last Gulf War. Background to this comment: Nearly 25,000 British soldiers have refused to have the anthrax vaccine because they are scared it’s not safe. |
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Extract from: Mass Media: cultura effects (Media Ownership in the UK) Source: www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml The Sun can usually be relied upon to adopt a stridently xenophobic position on most issues relating to the non-British, ranging from the coverage of football (especially if England are playing Germany) to asylum seekers. In particular, the Sun will adopt an overtly jingoistic tone in any international conflict in which the UK is involved, perhaps the most notorious example being its headline 'Gotcha!' when the Argentinian warship General Belgrano was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands conflict. One of its most extraordinary outbursts came in November 2001 during the 'war on terrorism' in Afghanistan, when the newspaper accused those newspapers which failed to voice wholehearted support of being traitors. The Sun took the view that in times of war it is the duty of all press organs to support the government line, a view certainly in tune with the government's chief spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, who predictably criticized the 'corrosive negativism' of those newspapers which voiced any dissent. One wonders what Sun editor David Yelland thinks newspapers are for - presumably not to foster the 'diversity' which we have discussed above. |
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