In December 2006, HarperCollins fired editor/publisher Judith Regan. News Corporation, the parent company that owns HarperCollins, said at the time that the firing came as a result of anti-Semitic comments Regan had made. Regan said otherwise and sued News Corp., ultimately getting an official retraction and a reported $10.75 million More…
Now that Rahm Emanuel has officially bid his adieu to the White House, Paul Blumenthal at the Sunlight Foundation figured it would be a good time to trawl through the White House visitor logs to see who visited the famously gruff chief of staff during his tenure and More…
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, gave a cool $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this summer, according to Politico’s Ben Smith. When earlier reports revealed that the company, owned by Rupert Murdoch, had donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, it drew heavy More…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch made an economic case for immigration reform to Congress today, arguing deportation is too expensive and paths to citizenship are necessary. The two men have been gathering business leaders and mayors to join their Partnership for New American Economy More…
I’m a little late, but the Republican Governors Association (RGA) was the beneficiary of some big time contributions the other month — one from News Corp., the parent company for a number of media companies, including Fox News and the New York Post, and the other from libertarian billionaire More…
The overblown “100 Days of the Obama Presidency” stories will, for the most part, be terrible. But some special honor must be paid to the dippy “100 Mistakes” list featured in the New York Post (which endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president, if that matters). There are some More…
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