well deri there are others that owns large groups too, it is not only murdoch even though he is the one you dislike the most. but you got the point i was making to anthony, it is very hard to get unbiased information. some is spun left and some is spun right, but it has all been spun.
--- On Wed, 9/10/08, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: sources of information
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 7:08 PM
> On Wednesday 10 September 2008 19:16:34 ken barber wrote:
> > okay i sent this somehow before i finished. if you
> find such
> > a source which will be hard, you'll have found a
> > unbiased source.
> >
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Its virtually impossible to find unbiased source in the
> media, it gets more
> difficult as "news sources" fall into quite a
> narrow band of "media moguls".
> News International (Rupert Murdoch) owns:-
>
> Film
>
> Twentieth Century Fox
> Twentieth Century Fox Español
> Twentieth Century Fox International
> Twentieth Century Fox Television
> Fox Searchlight Pictures
> Fox Studios Australia
> Fox Studios Baja
> Fox Studios Los Angeles
> Fox Television Studios
>
> Television
>
> 20th Century Fox Television
> bTV
> BSkyB
> Fox Broadcasting Company
> Fox Sports Australia
> Fox Television Stations
> Foxtel
> Premiere (19,9%)
> Star Group Limited
> Sky Latin America
> SKY Network Television New Zealand
> Sky Italia
> Fox International Channels Italy
> STAR TV
> Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija
> TV5 Rīga
>
> Cable
>
> Big Ten Network (49%)
> Fox Business Network
> Fox Movie Channel
> Fox News Channel
> Fox Soccer Channel
> Fox Sports Channel
> Fox Sports Enterprises
> Fox Sports en Español
> Fox Sports Net
> FUEL TV
> FX Networks
> Fox Reality
> National Geographic Channel
> SPEED Channel
> Turner South
> LAPTV (Latin America - co-owned with Paramount
> Pictures/Viacom,
> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC
> Universal)
> Telecine (Brazil - co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount
> Pictures,
> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal Studios and
> DreamWorks/Viacom);
>
> Internet
>
> Fox Interactive Media
> AmericanIdol.com
> AskMen.com
> Fox.com
> Foxsports.com
> GameSpy
> kSolo
> IGN
> Drownedinsound.com
> MySpace
> MyNetworktv.com
> NewRoo.com
> Strategicdatacorp.com
> Photobucket.com
> Rotten Tomatoes
> Scout.com
> SpringWidgets
> WhatIfSports
>
> Magazines and Inserts
>
> InsideOut
> donna hay
> News America Marketing
> SmartSource
> The Weekly Standard
> Gemstar
>
> Newspapers
>
> United Kingdom
> The Sun
> News of the World
> The Times
> Sunday Times
>
> Australia
> The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
> The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
> The Australian (national)
> The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide)
> The Sunday Times (Perth)
> Herald Sun (Melbourne)
> Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)
> mX (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)
> The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)
> Geelong Advertiser
> Gold Coast Bulletin
> The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart)
> Northern Territory News (Darwin)
> The Sunday Territorian (Darwin)
>
> New Zealand
> Sunday Star-Times
> Papua New Guinea
> Papua New Guinea Post-Courier
>
> Fiji
> The Fiji Times
>
> United States
> New York Post
> The Wall Street Journal
>
> Books
> HarperCollins
>
> Miscellaneous
> National Rugby League (NRL) (50%)
> Sibelius Software
> Ansett Australia, Until 2000 (50%)
>
> And you may say "Well its Ok they're all
> editorially independent" but its
> interesting to note that, at the time, all 175 newspapers
> he controls
> supported Bush going into Iraq:-
>
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/feb/17/mondaymediasection.iraq>
>
> Given that its virtually impossible to get news that is
> unbiased, the next
> best is to get news which is biased in many different ways,
> from as many
> different countries as possible. I quite like Al-Jazeera
> (they've currently
> got a piece by American Historian Howard Zinn):-
>
> <http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/20089814415795791.html>
>
> Which is thought provoking.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>
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