May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year's election will be the most expensive in U.S. history.
Stephen Harper, Rupert Murdoch and their various cronies are as thick as thieves, if you'll pardon the expression! Canadians would be well advised to pay attention.
For those interested in saying no to Murdoch, here's a list of just some of the assets that belong to Murdoch and the News Corp. media empire. (Bonus! Sun Media (QMI) publications added at bottom.)
Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking problems have been all over the news in recent days, but it wasn't too long ago his media properties were providing a supportive environment for Big Tobacco.
Nothing makes me appreciate Stephen Harper more than the moral corruption that characterizes political life in the nations to which Canada is closest: the U.S., Britain and France.
Discarnate is my fave among the many terms slung by Marshall McLuhan, who'd have turned 100 yesterday. It means, Philip Marchand wrote here, "almost literally bodiless."
On Tuesday, Murdoch claimed before the British House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport that it was his "most humble day." But what does it mean for a man with no humility?
Can we declare a moratorium on Canadian Schadenfreude over Rupert Murdoch and his British tabs? They deserve what they're getting and more. But it tends to conceal the mote in our own eye.
Rupert Murdoch is done like dinner. When the truly powerful are finished with him -- if he survives, he is 80, after all -- he will envy the fate of Conrad Black!