Next, he wants to conquer the British market. And he uses the same plan, starting with the tabloids, the News of the World and The Sun. Next, he tries to buy The Times and The Sunday Times. ibid.
‘The price of Rupert Murdoch’s support for Tony Blair was that Blair promised he would not take us into the European currency without first having a referendum.’ ibid. Nigel Farage
By 2009 James Murdoch is busy running a huge part of his father’s empire and he seems favourite to succeed him. The other person who is doing well isn’t actually a family member – Rebekah Wade is about to be made CEO of News International, in charge of all his UK newspapers. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty II: The Rebel Alliance
‘These politicians literally gathered like locusts around Rupert desperate for his patronage, desperate to impress him, desperate for him to like them.’ ibid. Piers Morgan, re: Brooks’ wedding
Max Mosley became one of the very few people to have taken on the News of the World and won. ibid.
On 9th July 2009 the Guardian breaks the story on their front page: ‘Revealed: Murdoch’s £1m bill for hiding dirty tricks’. ibid.
When the police take no action the story goes cold … Above this battle it seems to be business as usual for Rupert Murdoch. ibid.
With Max Mosley’s millions as insurance, more and more people bring cases to court, and more evidence at what had been going on at The News of the World is brought into the public domain. But the Murdoch empire will pay hundreds of millions in damages to settle out of court. ibid.
‘Mr Murdoch, you must be the first Mafia boss in history that didn’t know he was running a criminal enterprise.’ ibid. Tom Watson to James Murdoch
Murdoch’s public shame leads to a public inquiry … Four of Britain’s living prime ministers are called to testify [Leveson Inquiry]. ibid.
Recently, so much of the power and influence he once enjoyed has gone. His reputation damaged by the phone hacking scandal. But Rupert is about to mastermind his comeback … The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty III: The Comeback
The [Fox] primary [US] debate is the most watched in history … Trump’s candidacy no longer seems so far-fetched. ibid.
Going out with Mick Jagger’s ex-wife brings a new kind of attention. ibid.
He decides to sell almost all of his empire … Disney pays $71 billion for the majority. ibid.
‘The truth is that politicians of all the main parties have spent quite a lot of time trying to win over editors, broadcasters, proprietors … Feral Beasts: Prime Ministers & the Media, Adam Boulton reporting, Dave Cameron before Commons committee, Sky Showcase 2022
We’re in a very difficult state for our democracy. I think the power of the mainstream media to scrutinise and hold to account government is being blunted. ibid.
Media tycoon Robert Maxwell who died under mysterious circumstances in 1991 ... He went missing from his yacht ... ‘The story is it was a hit-squad from Mosad’. Conspiracy: Lord Lucan Dossier, commentary with Kevin Cahill quote, BBC 2015
Nearly every war has been the result of media lies. Julian Assange
‘We in America are the best entertained and least informed society in the world. Project Censored: The Movie, Neil Postman, 2013
In 2007 two fathers from California were inspired to make a film that explores why today’s corporate media is deliberately dividing the nation. ibid.
What will it take to end the reign of corporate media’s junk food news? ibid.
Vested interests? Or do the American people prefer the sensationalistic junk food news? ibid.
‘Deliberate decisions are made to withhold information from the people.’ ibid. Cynthia McKinney
News abuse … A more subtle form of news bias: stories that have some legitimate newsworthy quality, unlike their junk food counterparts, but where the way the story is presented is so spun or so distorted that the ultimate point of the story gets lost, and this too is a form of propaganda. ibid.
For the past 35 years Project Censored has been publishing the top censored stories that have deliberately and systematically withheld from the American public. ibid.
We have a concentrated top-down corporate media system that’s primarily orientated to make money and provide entertainment, and is increasingly a propaganda machine for the military-media-industrial complex. ibid.
The centuries-long history of how media has been used to whip the nation into war-time frenzy, [and] dehumanise the supposed enemies. The Corbett Report: Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War, James Corbett online 2012
The scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s beleaguered News Corporation mounts this week as revelations continue to emerge about the widespread use of phone hacking, pinging and other illegal techniques by Murdoch-connected journalists. The Corbett Report: The Murdoch Empire: How Media Shapes Society, James Corbett online 2011
Nothing survived the printing revolution intact. Our world is the world the printing press has created. The Corbett Report: The Media Matrix, James Corbett online 2020
Media: We structure our lives around it … This is the story of the Media matrix. ibid.
Every part of the printing process involved years of laborious experimentation. ibid.
In the nineteenth century a new creature had emerged to capitalize on this new instrument of power – the press baron. ibid.
Queen Elizabeth’s death: Different outlet after different outlet reporting … literally the exact same wording. The Corbett Report: Who Controls the News Controls the World, Youtube 35.28, 2022
Multiple TV channels: ‘This is extremely dangerous to our democracy’. ibid.
How has propaganda through television been used in the past? … Davos 2007: Rupert Murdoch … admitted openly that he used his media empire to try to sell the American public on Bush’s Iraq War policies. The Corbett Report: Tell-Lie-Vision, James Corbett online 2023
Television is, has been and presumably will continue to be used to try to shape public opinion on key and important events. ibid.
Over the past decade or more there has been a steadily declining trust in establishment media institutions. ibid.
What we saw [is] the corporatisation of media in the 20th century. ibid.
Sometimes there is a glitch in the matrix where the limitations of the old operating system are laid bare and something new pokes through. A Glitch in the Matrix, 2021
What unites this group of thinkers is a sense that the set of ideas that have run western culture of years are breaking down. ibid.
The centre of gravity continues to shift away from traditional media. ibid.
The vast majority of them are owned and operated by one of five media companies. Capitalism & Monopolies: How Five Companies Control the Media, Youtube 10.03, Second Thought 2020
Concast, Disney, AT&T, National Amusements, News Corp … Five corporations that share the US media market. ibid.
From the earliest days freedom of the press was what defined America. Who Rules America: The Power of the Media, Youtube 24.47, Endevr 2022
The press and the outlets that report news or convey information are just a small slice of vast media empires. ibid.
It reinforces the world view and defends the interests of those who rule America. ibid.
A lack of diversity within the media. ibid.
One of the great achievements of the modern media is to get people angry about small fiddles and not know about the giant ones. Michael Rosen