Murdoch's World (65 page)

New York
magazine,
41

New York Post

    
cast in R. Murdoch's image as favorite child,
38–43

    
and columnist Dunleavy,
33–34
,
41
,
45
,
52

    
losing money, circulation, J. Angelo returns as publisher,
291
,
294

    
mateship culture under Allan,
45

    
payments from sources and extortion revealed,
44–45
,
189

    
political stance and influence,
41
,
46–50

    
as R. Murdoch's favorite child,
42–43

New York Times

    
“Back in the Game” story (Arango),
72–73

    
Barboza's reports on China's corruption and retaliation,
289–290

    
collaborates with
Guardian
on tabloid corruption exposé,
130–131
,
229

    
coverage of candidate Romney,
252

    
“Don't Mourn Brown v. Board of Education” op-ed (Williams),
106

    
on exclusion of Fox from White House press sessions,
83

    
the Fox-ification of
WSJ
(Nocera),
227–228

    
Jayson Blair fabrication, plagiarism, scandal,
189

    
Juan Williams termination from NPR,
110

    
policy on not paying sources for information,
167

    
reporters targeted by Fox News,
72–74

    
on 2012 election,
258

    
viewed as despised competitor by
WSJ
,
219–220

News Corp Australia,
299–300

News Corp in Asia,
5
,
49
,
146
,
147

News Corp media empire

    
described,
1–4
,
14
,
122–127
,
184

    
attempts takeover of BSkyB, withdraws,
136
,
153
,
193

    
CEO Thomson (
see
Thomson, Robert
)

    
dominates Australia's media,
17–18

    
financial impact of scandal,
237–242

    
Management and Standards Committee (MSC),
190
,
198

    
questionable practices in NDS,
270–271

    
radio stations operated against regulations,
47–48

    
rides Tea Party wave in 2010 elections,
113–114

    
Star India satellite service,
146
,
278

    
Wireless Generation acquired,
225

    
See also
News Corp split

News Corp split,
278–279
,
298–299
.
See also
New News Corp

News International (British wing of News Corp)

    
becomes News UK,
299–300

    
Brooks as CEO,
36–37
,
151–152
,
187

    
CEO Mockridge leaves for Virgin Media,
293

    
concedes hacking, settles, with a few wealthy people,
133

    
J. Murdoch as executive chair, resigns,
147
,
269

    
loses court case,
206–207

    
pays off litigants for hacking mobile phone messages,
127–128
,
206–207

    
scandal containment strategy fails,
266–269

    
spies on Mark Lewis, daughter, ex-wife,
132

    
supports, then undermines, Cameron,
151–152
,
270

News Ltd in Australia

    
declared green by R. Murdoch,
92–93
,
96
,
100

    
dominates Australia's media and political spheres,
17–22

    
history,
10
,
14–15

    
negative coverage of climate change and Bacon's research,
90–93
,
96–99

News of the World

    
hacking of Gordon Taylor,
126

    
hacks Milly Dowler's phone voice mail,
3–4
,
137
,
231–232

    
hacks voice mail of Prince William, Prince Harry,
119
,
169
,
191

    
history of salacious reporting with pay offs,
182–183

    
manufactures news,
30–31

    
offers settlement money to celebrities for hacking,
160
,
164
,
173

    
pays police for information under Coulson,
171

    
pays royals' security detail for contact information,
169

    
shut down in wake of hacking scandal,
183–184
,
190–191
,
245

News UK,
299–300

NewsBusters,
113

Newsnight
BBC television program,
284–286

Newspapers vs. tabloids,
26–28

Nightline
television program,
58

9/11 attacks.
See
September 11, 2001 attacks

Nixon, Richard,
54
,
60

Nocera, Joe,
227–228

NPR.
See
National Public Radio

Obama, Barack

    
appoints Petraeus as CIA director,
252

    
Delonas's chimpanzee cartoon,
47–48

    
endorsed in presidential primary by
New York Post
,
46–47

    
Fox News' atomic mushroom cloud in anti-Obama story tease,
86

    
Fox News depictions,
75–81

    
misinformation about birth, religion,
75–78
,
87–88

    
political hit piece by
Fox & Friends
,
254

    
supports Sandy victims and Governor Christie,
255–256

    
and toner cartridge bomb,
174

    
WSJ
coverage,
217–218

Obama, Michelle,
107

Obama administration,
82–84

OfCom

    
opposed by Cameron,
152

    
proposed by Leveson as press regulator,
288

    
reviews Murdoch's takeover attempt of BSkyB,
156–157
,
163
,
193
,
272
,
277

Official secrets act and laws governing privacy in UK,
169

Olbermann, Keith,
65–66
,
70

Oliver, Craig,
162–163
,
177
,
181

O'Reilly, Bill

    
assertion would serve as anchor,
70–71

    
blames Muslim people for 9/11 attacks,
108

    
blasts Shirley Sherrod,
87

    
brands NPR as totalitarian,
111–112

    
described,
56
,
65–66

    
on Obama as president,
76
,
78

    
rumor/scam about becoming anchor,
70–71

    
on 2012 election,
257–258
,
261–262

O'Reilly Factor
television program,
56
,
107

Origin of Species
(Darwin),
148–149

Orwall, Bruce, interviews Rupert Murdoch,
226–227
,
232–233
,
234
,
278

Osborne, George,
150
,
151
,
159
,
270

Oxford University,
12
,
13
,
150
,
286
,
296

The
Oz. See
The
Australian
newspaper

Page, Jeremy,
289

Paleologos, David,
257–258

Palin, Sarah,
218
,
265
Panorama
television program,
271

Parker Bowles, Camilla,
28

Parliamentary hearings and investigative committees

    
Brooks's testimony (2003),
165

    
conclusions,
277

    
J. Murdoch's testimony,
202–207
,
236
,
242–244

    
Les Hinton's testimony,
127
,
197

    
on phone hacking (July 19, 2011),
201–207

    
on phone hacking (September 6, 2011),
238–241

    
R. Murdoch's testimony,
197–198
,
201–207
,
273–276

    
shift to email and computer hacking,
241–244

    
See also
Leveson Inquiry

Patten, Chris,
146
,
285

Payne, Sarah, murder of,
34–35
,
139

Paywall of
Wall Street Journal
,
211
,
217
,
281

Petersen, Freya,
33–34

Petraeus, David,
250–252

Pike, Julian,
127
,
239

Podhoretz, John,
264

Police

    
arrest reporters for hacking,
236

    
conduct inquiry clearing News International of wrongdoing,
173–174
,
203
,
238

    
connected closely to tabloid presses,
170–176

    
paid by tabloids for information,
30
,
171

    
paid for database information, phone data,
166–167

    
See also
Scotland Yard

Political influence of Murdoch's media

    
in Australia,
14–15
,
17–23

    
in Britain, allies switch from Conservatives to Labour to Tories,
150
,
152

    
climate change discourse ambiguous, inaccurate,
89–101

    
Fox News under Ailes,
60–74

    
investigated by Leveson Inquiry,
273–276

    
with tabloids in America,
41
,
46–48

    
WSJ
shifts to the right under Thomson/Murdoch,
217–225

Populist conservative politics,
17
,
46
,
78
,
134
,
246