MySpace Founder Confirms November Request For SEC To Investigate in Wake of Resignation by The New York Times CEO. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 20, 2011 MySpace Founder Brad Greenspan confirmed today in the wake of the resignation by The New York Times Company CEO Janet L. Robinson, 61, president and chief executive officer since 2004, announced Friday December 16, 2011, that a formal complaint and request for a full investigation was made in November to the Board of Directors. In addition, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has confirmed to the MySpace Founder the agency has received evidence submitted on November 23, 2011 and forwarded such complaint to the Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) to review potential violations by the NYT CEO or other executives of Sarbanes Oxley Statue 802 and/or Federal Racketeering Violations including Obstruction of Justice under File # HO-00178048-HO Mr. Greenspan is also the largest shareholder in Brown v.
The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal. How Tony Blair was taken into the Murdoch family fold | Politics. It was a relationship that began in political controversy but progressed to a secret family union: Tony Blair, it was revealed , is godfather to Rupert Murdoch's nine-year-old daughter, Grace, the second youngest of his six children. In a culmination of 15 years of political intimacy, the former Labour prime minister was present at the star-studded baptism of the child on the banks of the Jordan, at the spot where Jesus is said to have undergone the same ceremony, according to an article in Vogue magazine. With the Murdochs and their children dressed in white – and present at the invitation of Queen Rania of Jordan – the event was photographed in Hello! Magazine, complete with an ethereal front cover image of a smiling Murdoch in an open-necked shirt.
But no mention was made of Blair's participation, which was revealed only in a rare interview by Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, in a forthcoming edition of Vogue. When the Jordanian baptism was originally reported by Hello! FAA Looks Into News Corp's Daily Drone, Raising Questions About Who Gets To Fly Drones in The U.S. How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory | Rolling Stone Politics. Murdoch's ambitions in the Middle East - Features. Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch's media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal. But while News Corp remains under heavy scrutiny in the UK, US, and the rest of the West, the launch of Abu Dhabi-based Arabic language news channel Sky News Arabia is still on track. For someone interested in assisting in starting a television network with a planned initial reach of 50 million viewers across the Middle East, Murdoch has an interesting perspective on regional issues that affect the would-be consumers of the new Arabic channel.
"My own perspective is simple", Murdoch told the Anti-Defamation League on December 13, 2010. "We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews. " Ari Rabin-Havt, Executive Vice President of the media watchdog group Media Matters, says Murdoch's Fox News in the US "is one of the most bigoted, anti-Muslim channels on TV". Murdoch's Middle East connection. Murdoch's influence extends to U.S., global politics. It's been reported that Murdoch has close, and sometimes inappropriate, relationships with conservative politicians in the U.K. It's also commonly believed that he has close ties to what we consider conservative politicians here in the U.S. as well, but campaign finance records suggest he has ties to both sides of the aisle.
According to the Sunlight Foundation's Influence Explorer, News Corp's political givings are actually split pretty evenly between Democrats (51 percent) and Republicans (49 percent). The biggest all-time recipient of contributions from News Corp is President Obama. It should be noted that the totals for News Corp’s contributions include money from employees of the organization and their family members. It’s also been reported that Fox News also has contracts with Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, all having run for president either in the past or currently, to appear on the network as commentators. See below for a list Murdoch’s top recipients. News Corp | Influence Explorer: Campaign Contributions, Lobbying and Grants & Contracts. Phone hacking | Media. News Corp.'s Tangled Web. News Corp. closed its British tabloid newspaper, News of the World, founded in 1843, on July 10 after allegations that it obtained phone, medical, and bank records from as many as 3,870 people ranging from celebrities, politicians, and the police.
Data: Bloomberg; The Guardian; Photographs: Abaca; AP Photo (6); Corbis (5); Getty Images (18); Newscom (4); Graphic by Bloomberg Businessweek. The phone-hacking scandal: The lowest low. Adam Curtis Blog: RUPERT MURDOCH - A PORTRAIT OF SATAN.