Rupert Murdoch

Five Disturbing Tales of Plots to Kill Musicians

Sometimes, being a rich and famous musician is downright terrifying. It's impossible to know what motivates twisted humans to want to murder celebrities, but it's something that has only narrowly been avoided on several recent occasions. Here are five musicians who were targeted by psychos, but made ... More >>

Obama's Reelection Has Spurred a GOP Paradigm Shift on Immigration Reform

One of the conventional criticisms of President Obama's first term was that he failed to live up to the "Hope!" and "Change!" rhetoric on which he campaigned in 2008. Many Obama supporters, even ones who concede this point, defended him by stressing the partisan gridlock and the key policies the pre ... More >>

Todd Akin: Reaction to Rape Comment Shows the Real Power of Social Media

Social media is no doubt a powerful force. But in what ways? How does this power manifest itself? Some people, perhaps confused by the word "media," seem to think it's a replacement for dying traditional media outlets -- particularly newspapers -- despite there being zero evidence that this is takin ... More >>

MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't

​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch on Twitter: Insipid and Pedestrian

​It's sort of hard to believe after all this time, but I still regularly see people making fun of Twitter as if it's just a bunch of morons saying moron things. Okay, it is mostly that when taken as a whole. But I see very little of that kind of thing because I generally don't follow morons. Twitt ... More >>

OccupySF to Protest Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch in San Francisco Today

Unless, of course, that check has six zeros ​OccupySF is getting its first brush with national -- and very conservative --  figures; protesters are planning to make their way down to the Palace Hotel this afternoon where right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush w ... More >>

Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch Tell San Francisco How to Educate Children

​Who better to talk education reform in left-leaning San Francisco than a populist right-wing media mogul and the brother of one of the most reviled Republican presidents in American history? That's right -- News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother to form ... More >>

Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

Justin Timberlake: Top 5 Ways He Can Save MySpace

New media mogul?​Justin Timberlake's newly announced ownership stake in MySpace is without doubt the coolest thing to happen to the ailing social network in some time. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. just sold MySpace, which it acquired six years ago, at a $545 million loss. But new owner Specific Med ... More >>

Top 5 Ways Justin Timberlake Can Save MySpace

Don't fret, Justin -- we can help.​So now Justin Timberlake -- unequivocal hearthrob, former member of N*Sync, and pop prodigy -- owns a stake in MySpace. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sold the ailing social media site yesterday to Specific Media at a $545 million loss. Figuring Timberlake and Speci ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Won't Let You Take That Extra Sugar Packet for Free

​Hello SF Weekly readers! I'm Rupert Murdoch. That will be a dollar, please. You may have read about my heroic remarks against Google's terrorist campaign of content-hijacking by way of the links and the searches. "I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing," I said. But why stop there?

Dandy Rotten Scoundrel

Michael Manos was living the same lie that he peddled across the country. But in San Francisco, the truth caught up with him.

Avatar: All that glitters isn't gold

The Guardian's Illustrated, Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- Did You Know Spain Was Involved?

We're not exactly unaccustomed to paranoid political thinking in the pages of our rival weekly here in San Francisco. But the journos at the Bay Guardian have taken their conspiracy theories to new levels -- and depicted them in bolder-than-ever graphics -- in this week's issue.Appearing alongside a ... More >>

Beginnings of an LGBT Media Empire?

Lawyers and executives this week announced the formation of Here Media, an "LGBT media powerhouse" formed through a merger of several companies catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender consumers. While the resulting entity isn't exactly Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it does represent ... More >>

Why Outside Lands Looks Juicy to Big Promoters

By Peter Jamison We reported this week on the ungainly turf war that has erupted among bureaucrats and entrepreneurs over the future of Outside Lands, the popular three-day music festival whose inaugural run was overseen in August by Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment. Despite the event' ... More >>

So Does That Mean Weeklies Were Ahead Of Their Time? Shit, They've Always Been Free

New York Post on S.F.: Sir Francis Drake, AIDS, and Everything in Between

LastNight: Murdoch, Tom, and MC Hammer: MySpace Party Notes

MySpace To Open SF Office -- Emperor Murdoch Visits System

The Simpsons Movie : Grade A- “… It Doesn’t Suck!...”

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans

But Can He Predict the Weather?

KRON's Last Gasp

How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

Is Anybody Watching?

In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

Journalism 101

Dear Reactionaries: If you think the New Times merger spells trouble for local music, read this column

Brugmann's Brain Vomit

Cleaning up the latest drivel from San Francisco's leading bull-goose loony

Word Warriors

The Perpetual Motion Roadshow -- indie publishing meets rock 'n' roll

Meow Mix

Tune in, turn on, say "fuck": This is the story of a man named Monkey and his very special Pirate Cat Radio

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Sassiness Explored

Artists with disabilities -- and attitude

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Looking Inside INdTV

Al Gore and ex-Stanford prof Joel Hyatt say their S.F.-based cable news channel for twentysomethings won't be ideological. But do the Democratic moneymen behind the venture know that?

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

South to the Future

Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

A Chance for Respect?

How to tell whether the San Francisco Chronicle is becoming a great newspaper, or another nondescript Hearst money-machine

Tapped Out

San Francisco slips one more notch as a global business player

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