Talk:News Corporation

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This page doesn't mention the Advertiser, (Adelaide) where it all started for Rupert!

1 Disney?
2 Reincorporation
3 Ticker Symbol
4 MSNBC
5 Section removed
6 Controversies
7 Sky Channels not included
8 SANZAR?

[edit] Disney?

I'm nearly 100% positive News Corp does not own Disney. I cannot find a connection between the two companies elsewhere. Can anyone confirm this is indeed false and remove the item? I am not in a position of comprehensive knowledge on the subject so will not do so myself.

[edit] Reincorporation

I don't think the reincorporation vote was unanimous, though it was sufficient for the resolution to pass. Bambul 11:15, 31 January (UTC)

[edit] Ticker Symbol

Can someone explain to me why there are two ticker symbols for news corp? NWS and NWS.A is one preferred and one common?

[edit] MSNBC

I removed the following: "However, FNC's cable-news dominance has in recent years been challenged by the growth of MSNBC."

Seemed extremely dubious. According to the FNC page, "Fox News currently leads the cable news market, earning higher ratings than its chief competitors CNN and MSNBC combined by average viewership." Tajmahall 13:20, 18 November, 2005.

EXTREMELY dubious quoting Fox News about their own statistics.

[edit] Section removed

"Many alledge that the outlets that the News Corporation owns are designed to control free speech (See Wapping dispute) and freedom of the press through the purchase and acquisition of otherwise independent commercial broadcasting stations and Internet Sites so they can subvert them for political means or just to restrict community outlets of expression in General, (See Fox News controversies and allegations of bias, Internet MySpace Criticisms as well as the large acquisition of media outlets acquired -- visible below)"

Reasons:

It is the worst form of weasel words, "many alledge". Who exactly?
The subversion for political means is blatant POV. Is it not possible News Corp is doing it for commercial gain, like the commercial company it is?
"restrict community outlets of expression in General" — Internet does not lack places to state your POV.
The author shows little knowledge Wapping Dispute. The move to Wapping broke the crippling hold the unions had over The Times and Sunday Times. I'm not saying trade unions are bad, but the ones at the Times pre-Wapping were appalling. Mark83 19:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversies

I think that something should be added about the issues and some of the controversies surrounding News Corp. For example, the media laws in Australia and claims of bias and sensationalised news. Possibly also mention the film "Out Foxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism" (and even "Farenheight 9/11") as they discuss these issues.

Outfoxed and Fahrenheit911 both have had innaccurate information using clips to mislead watchers. For example, Carl Cameron in Outfoxed was portrayed as someone advocating Bush policies on air when in reality he was quoting a Republican politician and said so in the unedited segment. Fahrenheit911 has been discredited by the documentaries Celsius911 and FahrenHYPE911.

Bull.

[edit] Sky Channels not included

why have the UK and Ireland SKy Channels been ignored? Pratj 23:07, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Sky is included, under "satellite television" - BSkyB - That's the company, we can't list every channel of every News Corp company here or the list would be enormous. Mark83 21:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)