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Who Are the CEOs of Hogwarts?
17 July 2009 11:30 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news
Scrape away all the wizardry, and the Harry Potter films are about a company that unites behind a leader to defeat its foes. Which got us thinking about the real world wizards of finance and technology. In short, who in the business world is equivalent to our heroes and who deserves the title of He Who Must Not Be Named?
Scrape away all of the wizardry, and the sixth Harry Potter film is about a company that unites behind a leader to defeat its foes. Which got us thinking about the real world wizards of finance and technology, and how they would map onto the characters in the film. In short, who in the business world is equivalent to our cast of heroes and who deserves the title of He Who Must Not Be Named?
He's the chosen one. Everyone looks to him to stop the threat facing the world.
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Old Media Still Powerful: Blogs Follow News Outlets 2.5 Hours Later
13 July 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news
A new study by Cornell researchers shows that traditional (old-media) news outlets lead the blogosphere by 2.5 hours when it comes to breaking news. It's a sign that the old guard should chill out about blogs and how they're destroying the news world.
The Cornell research took an innovative new approach to studying the news cycle. Instead of examining a few case-study pieces of news and extrapolating the behavior of the different media outlets from these limited cases, it used a powerful algorithmic search. 1.6 million mainstream media and blog Web sites were analyzed in real-time, and to see how news propagated through them all specific phrases were sampled from each site and compared to see how they appeared elsewhere--kind of a text-based fingerprint.
By comparing where these fingerprint phrases, or memes, first surfaced, and then watching for them to pop up elsewhere online, the Cornell team has uncovered how news propagates online.
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Kit Eaton
U.K. Newspaper Says Murdoch Papers Paid Hush Money
9 July 2009 11:44 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
Two British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp paid out more than $1.6 million to quietly settle legal cases that might have revealed that the newspapers had hired private investigators to wiretap British politicians, actors, and sports stars, Britain's Guardian newspaper disclosed today (Thursday), citing an unnamed source at Scotland Yard. The newspaper said that the investigators, hired by journalists working for the two Murdoch tabloids, the daily Sun and the Sunday News of the World, had been able to gain access to personal data concerning the celebrities, including their tax records and bank statements. The Guardian accused Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor and currently the official spokesman for David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, of failing to take action to halt the wiretapping (referred to in the Guardian account as "phone-hacking"). On Wednesday night, former deputy prime minister John Prescott told the Guardian, "I think Mr. Cameron should be thinking of getting rid of Coulson." Andrew Neil, the former editor of the Sunday Times, which is also owned by Murdoch, called the Guardian exposé "one of the most significant media stories of modern times," adding it suggested that the illegal activity was "systemic" particularly at News of the World. "This was a newsroom out of control," he said. But, in an interview with Bloomberg News, Rupert Murdoch denied that any hush money had been paid to the alleged victims to settle their cases. "If that had happened, I would know about it," he said.
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The CIA and Murdoch Will Get Away With It
9 July 2009 10:21 AM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
The CIA tells lies to the rest of the American government. Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids engage in nefarious means, including illegal electronic eavesdropping, to get dirt on celebrities. The current director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has apparently admitted as much to Congress. The Guardian says Murdoch has paid out $1.6 million to secretly settle cases of phone hacking. Each of these stories ought to be seismic. The CIA, at the center of the intelligence debacles of the last decade, ought to be investigated at least as intensely as it was in the late '70s after revelations of its internal spying. The Murdoch organization in the UK, which has as much influence on the British government as any other private business, ought to face the kind of independent examination that could, free from outside influence, send an impressive number of Murdoch lieutenants to jail. And yet, the overwhelming likelihood is that Washington and London shrug.
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Murdoch Not a Twitter Follower
8 July 2009 4:02 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news
News Corp also not interested in selling MySpace.
By Wrap Staff
News Corp is not interested in buying Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network MySpace, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday as the second day of the Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley media and technology conference got under way.
According to Reuters, Murdoch said Twitter would be a tough investment to justify because it has not yet come up with a sustainable way to make money. "Be careful of investing here," he said of Twitter.
Asked about selling MySpace, he said, "Hell no."
There's much speculation at the 27th conference ab...
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Roger Friedman Sues News Corp, Blames Them For Wolverine Leak
8 July 2009 4:13 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
Do you remember that rant I went on back in April about the Wolverine online movie leak and later in a subsequent article, when I wrote about Roger Friedman, who worked for a subsidiary of News Corp called Fox 411 for over 10 years, who had reviewed the online work copy of Wolverine and bragged about the ease of how he could abscond with the illegal print. In fact, he bragged about how he could get a copy of any of the present box-office top-10 films from the Internet.
He was subsequently fired for his part in the process of seemingly supporting this act of copyright infringement.
Me personally, I’m not sure I’d brag about snagging something my own bosses created, but that’s old-school me. Now, Friedman is now firing back with a $5 million lawsuit.
He claims his contract was violated when he was let go after his April
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Bruce Simmons
Did Rupert Bed Jackie?
7 July 2009 10:36 AM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
Is it really possible to have had as much sex as the Kennedys had? Well, anyway, thank God for it. The Kennedy sex saga is really the story that keeps on giving. Every politician who has had sex in office since the Kennedys were having sex in office is a pathetic also-ran. All of them fooled around in a sniveling, shame-faced, emasculated fashion compared to the Kennedys’ gusto, brazenness, and absolute disregard for conventions of all sizes and stripes—including, as the New York Post has revealed once again, Bobby Kennedy’s affair with his brother’s widow. According to the Post, which got hold of a copy of a new book by C. David Heyman with all the delicto details, Bobby and Jackie were like two high school kids who, in front of the entire Camelot court, couldn’t keep their hands off of each other. Of course, the
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Watchmen: The Director's Cut Leaks Onto the Internet
7 July 2009 4:54 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news
Like X-Men Origins: Wolverine before it, copies of Watchmen: The Director's Cut have leaked onto the Internet and scattered to various torrent download sites.
Unlike Wolverine, however, the Director's Cut is only scheduled for one weekend of showings in four cities before its DVD release. It's also doubtful that Warner Bros. executives will be as angry about the leak as Fox was about Wolverine. At this point, Watchmen has been through its (disappointing) box office run, but what this does illuminate is that the security issues raised by the Wolverine leak are far from over.
Then again, there may be little reason for Warner Bros. to panic. After all, it's probably just Rupert Murdoch's fault again.
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Ryan Gowland
Roger Friedman sues Fox over his early Wolverine review
6 July 2009 4:07 PM, PDT | From Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news
In April online Fox News journalist Roger Friedman reviewed the leaked copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, triggering a series of events that led to his dismissal from the company. Now Friedman has filed a lawsuit against his former employer citing the company smeared his reputation and wrongly let him go.
Friedman's suit asks for $5 million dollars in damages plus $180,000 in legal fees.
In Friedman's side of the story he claims that he asked Fox News' legal department to vet the review for publication and that he never back from them nor from his editors about not writing his infamous review. Friedman's review of Wolverine went online April 2. On April 3 the story was removed from the Fox News website. Friedman claims that he asked his editor if he should be concerned about his job and supposedly was told that there was nothing to worry about. The next day Friedman was fired from Fox.
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Patrick Sauriol
Jessica Biel In Thor?
2 July 2009 11:49 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
Most of the big corporate news sources have already started their 4-day, holiday weekend. We.re still here blogging away and will be all through the holiday. Not because we aren.t patriotic, but because we don.t have Rupert Murdoch lurking in the background willing to reward our unwavering loyalty by paying us to do nothing. One of the interesting things about a quiet, pre-holiday night like tonight, a night when the trades and AOL subsidiaries have already grabbed their margaritas and headed for the beach, is that strange stories start surfacing from smaller websites. With less noise to filter through it.s easier to spot odd items like this one on a place called Nuke the Fridge, where they claim Jessica Biel is in talks to join the cast of Thor. Their sources are anonymous and mysterious, but they insist that Biel is negotiating to play the lightning
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Journalist Sues Over X-Men Firing
1 July 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
The journalist who was fired because he reviewed a leaked version of movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine is suing his former bosses for $5 million (£3 million).
Fox columnist Roger Friedman lost his job after the scandal earlier this year, in part because the Fox News and X-Men studios 20th Century Fox shares the same parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Friedman, who now writes for the Hollywood Reporter, alleges his firing was illegal, and is seeking more than $5 million in lost wages and damages, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
A spokesperson for Fox News tells the L.A. Times the company has yet to be informed of the lawsuit.
Gossip Columnist Sues Fox News For $5 Million
1 July 2009 2:33 PM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news
Former FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman is claiming in a $5-million lawsuit against News Corp that the copy of Wolverine that he viewed online had previously been in the possession of of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch. He maintains that the principal reason for his dismissal was that News Corp wanted to cover up the real truth about how the film ended up online. Details of the lawsuit were first published Tuesday by the Huffington Post, which noted that it barely mentions the Church of Scientology. Earlier reports had quoted Friedman as saying that he had fired because of pressure from members of the controversial church, which Friedman has often castigated in his columns. The lawsuit further observes that although Fox had ostensibly fired him for describing how to download pirated movies over the Internet, the Times of London had run a similar story in January 2009, giving detailed instructions
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Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple
29 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news
By introducing the Kindle, Jeff Bezos is emulating Steve Jobs -- and taking him on.
To explain the present and divine the future, Amazon's founder and prognosticator-in-chief, Jeff Bezos, often turns to the past. Fond of historical analogies, Bezos has compared the dotcom boom and bust to the 1849 gold rush, the advent of electricity to today's broadband-infused Web, the printed book to a horse, and the Kindle reader to a car. Perhaps his trippiest simile likens the impact of the Internet on business to the Cambrian period approximately 550 million years ago, after the first multicellular creatures crawled out of the primordial ooze. That's when we experienced an evolutionary big bang, which engendered both the greatest rate of speciation the world has ever seen and its greatest rate of extinction. "What's very dangerous," Bezos summed up, "is not to evolve."
Evolution is not merely a theory for Amazon; it's part of its intelligent design.
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Adam L. Penenberg
Ticketmaster Takes Artists' Web Content and Runs
21 June 2009 6:47 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
Fans of up to 200 mid-level artists and lower tier musicians hosted by Echomusic who went to check out touring schedules on their websites in the last few days may have found a darkened site or just a note that the site was under reconstruction. What happened? In a move that is under-reported in comparison to the recent MySpace Layoff of 400 employees, Ticketmaster-owned Echomusic, Nashville, dumped a whole bunch of artists with 30 days notice, took their content, and in effect cast them into the netherworld of cached pages and lost content. When Ticketmaster exercises this much control over an already-stressed and collapsing music industry without giving artists the ability to move their content seamlessly, well it is just bad behavior. In big news this week, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns the social networking site MySpace, ...
Georgianne Nienaber
Is Rupert Murdoch Responsible for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Internet Leak?
17 June 2009 3:26 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news
When X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked online, Fox fired columnist Roger Friedman for admittedly downloading the movie and giving it a positive review, not to mention calling the FBI to hunt down the responsible party. Suspicions were raised about every production company that worked on the movie, but no one was charged. Looks like they needed to look a bit closer to home.
Friedman, who is suing Fox for wrongful termination, and his lawyer claim the leaks occurred when Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch asked the studio to make him a copy of the unfinished movie. "Apparently someone made another copy for themselves," said the lawyer.
Deadline Hollywood Daily confirms the claim, adding that Murdoch wanted to view the movie on his yacht but had "outside people" make a copy, which facilitated the leak.
So far, neither Murdoch nor Fox have refuted the story.
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Ryan Gowland
The Back Page: 23 News Items
16 June 2009 10:28 AM, PDT | From The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news
This fascinating blog from Alexx Henry Photography details the process of making a highly impressive “living” movie poster for of all things, a Hallmark movie called “Mrs. Washington Goes To Smith”. This is an exciting design concept you can expect to see become more and more popular. Think of them as highly advanced animated Gifs, the aim is to make you think you are looking at a still image. They are the future of online advertising and design. Direct links to the finished product: 1, 2, 3.
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The guys over at Chud report that Marcus Nispel has replaced Brett Ratner to direct the planned “Conan the Barbarian” remake. Nispel has plenty of remake experience having directed both “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)” and “Friday The 13th (2009)”. Next question: Who will play Conan?
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The very awesome Bloody Disgusting have a scoop on who is being lined up to direct the Robert Rodriguez produced “Predator” remake “Predators”…. Neil Marshall.
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Paul Larn
Fired Friedman Blames Rupert Murdoch, Scientology
15 June 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news
Hollywood henpecker Roger Friedman has filed an “unlawful termination” lawsuit against his former employer, News Corp, for an April firing amidst the company’s pending piracy investigation. The gossiper wrote a review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine after seeing the unfinished workprint copy leaked on the Internet. After bragging about the early look and access to additional illegal versions, Friedman was “terminated” just days later.
He has since been hired by the Hollywood Reporter, who picked up the column when he took his celebrity smear blog freelance, but that didn’t stop Friedman from holding a grudge towards News Corp. The lawsuit filed by his lawyer, Martin Garbus, this week claims the Wolverine angle was a “cover story,” and Roger Friedman wasn’t fired for blatantly stealing and then condoning piracy.
Instead Friedman is full of conspiracy theories about Scientologists plotting to have him removed. According to the gossip, John Travolta
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Jeff Leins
Did Rupert Murdoch Leak Wolverine Online?
15 June 2009 5:00 PM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news
Remember when FoxNews writer Roger Friedman was fired for reviewing a leaked copy of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"? It all seemed very straight forward. The man downloaded an illegal copy and made that fact public in his article, while he worked for a company that is a cousin of 20th Century Fox. But according to Friedman, he was fired because Hollywood Scientologists pressured Fox to get rid of him. His lawyer revealed to the Daily News that he plans to file a wrongful-termination suit this week. He called the suit a "slam dunk." Friedman believes that charges over the "Wolverine" review are just a cover, and that the real reason for his termination have to do with his opinion of Scientology in several of his columns. He claims that Tom Cruise demanded that Friedman be fired as a condition for signing on to Fox's "Wichita." And Kelly Preston (John Travolta's
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Did Rupert Murdoch Leak Wolverine? Or Was It The Scientologists?
15 June 2009 12:37 PM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
This story is too great not to post. According to an 'unlawful termination' suit that the lawyer for fired Fox columnist Roger Friedman will file in New York this week, the Wolverine leak can actually be traced back to News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch. Martin Garbus, Friedman's lawyer, claims that Murdoch requested a DVD copy of the film, and "apparently, someone made another copy for themselves." No shit? I'm still siding with Devin at Chud, who explained how a post-production leak was probably the hole from which Wolverine wriggled onto the internet. But everyone hates Murdoch, so why not pin this on him, too. That's not even the whole of the lawsuit, which claims that Friedman's firing was actually the result of...whisper it...Scientologists! I told you this was great. More after the jump. Friedman's lawsuit charges that it wasn't his ill-considered (or corporately-directed) review of the leaked Wolverine
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Russ Fischer
Old Media: Why the End Takes a Long Time to Get To
15 June 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
Over the past number of months a consensus has formed among media companies trying to do business on the Internet that advertising alone cannot support their efforts: It must be advertising plus subscriptions. This view has been most vociferously propounded by Rupert Murdoch, who, to my knowledge, has never been on the Internet, and by Barry Diller, who hosted a conference at the headquarters of his company, Iac, in New York, last week and forcefully declared that someone had to pay. This new view—pretty much the opposite of what advertising-obsessed traditional media used to believe—comes about partly because Internet advertising turns out to be worth much less than traditional advertising. (On the Internet advertising is accurately measurable, and in traditional media it is mostly not—meaning old media could wildly cheat its advertisers.) Then, too, there is the recession, which means that even cheap Internet advertising is shrinking rather than growing.
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