Murdoch about to spontaneously combust (LMAO)
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Subject: Murdoch about to spontaneously combust (LMAO)
Date: Nov 9, 2009 11:06 PM
MURDOCH FURIOUS ABOUT THE FALSE
CASES FOR THE OIL WARS AND HIS OWN
ROLE IN SPINNING IT:
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"Last month, Rupert Murdoch made a revalation at the World Economic
Forum in Sweeden that went largely unnoticed. In a 1/2 filled hall, in
a seminar about "who will shape the agenda in the future?," the media
mogul, who owns Fox News , The New York Post amongst others, admitted
to trying to assist the administration in it's efforts to "gin up" the
Iraq War.
"Murdoch said ***"We tried [...] We basically supported the Bush
policy in the Middle East."***"
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LMAO. The fact is, some of us were never
anesthetized by the TV and *remember* the
1970s and the oil embargoes. Stuff like
fake-energy-wars was never going to be "news"
to the unbrainless. And the self-selected
intellectual elite was never intellectual.
Now the country is falling apart and the
likes of Murdoch would like to blame us.
This modern PT Barnum is the main freak
in his own freak show, but he's now taking
the show private, just like Sarah Palin.
CONCLUSION: False premises and BS, while
inherently boomerangers, also reveal
*COWARDICE* as the OS (operating system)
of said self-selected intellectual elite.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/rupert-murdoch-google
Rupert Murdoch's threat unlikely to worry Google
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch could be shooting himself in the foot
if he withdraws stories from Google News
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch has threatened to remove News Corp content from
Google's search index. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
The threat to exclude Google from News International websites won't
have caused much lost sleep over in the search engine's headquarters
in Mountain View in California. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have
declared before that if news organisations don't like Google indexing
their content, then it only takes two lines of computer code added to
a file called "robots.txt", which every website uses to tell search
engines where, or not, to wander.
The key lines are "User-agent: *" (meaning "whoever you are") and
"Disallow: /" (meaning "you're not allowed to go anywhere in here").
Do that, and the site will vanish from Google's index – both for
Google News and the more general search index.
The reality though is that Rupert Murdoch's threat to exclude Google –
and perhaps other search engines, such as Microsoft's Bing and Ask.com
– is akin to a runner at a sports event threatening to shoot himself
in the foot: the ticket-seller, noting that all the other entrants
aren't making the same threat, isn't going to be worried.
Instead it is Murdoch, who wants to be the ticket-seller, who is
troubled. People have been getting stuff without paying for too long,
in his view, and it cannot be allowed to continue. "They shouldn't
have had it free all the time," he said in his interview on Sky News
Australia. But isn't Google News, by pointing people towards Murdoch's
properties, helping him? Murdoch's retort is that "there isn't enough
advertising in the world to go around to make all the websites
profitable".
There's the rub. Too many websites chasing advertising money spread
much more thinly across an explosion of properties; that's one half of
the problem. The other half is that so many of the search giant
websites are chasing the same piece of "news", because if you're the
only one with a particular news item, you don't show up on Google
News. But equally, if you're the first with a scoop, you'll soon be
buried under the avalanche of copies, an ouroboros of rewrites that
sucks any value out of being ahead of the crowd.
In that regard, Murdoch's desire to get away from the roundabout of
Google News is sensible: he has an old-fashioned vision of the value
of journalism (whether his news organisations reflect it is for the
reader to decide). The internet's casual destruction of the value
chains by which newspapers have made money for decades seems to puzzle
and infuriate him.
Google, meanwhile, will remain unmoved. "Google delivers more than a
billion consumer visits to newspaper websites each month. These visits
offer the publishers a business opportunity, the chance to hook a
reader with compelling content, to make money with advertisements or
to offer online subscriptions," wrote Google senior business product
manager Josh Cohen in a blog post in July. "The truth is that news
publishers, like all other content owners, are in complete control
when it comes not only to what content they make available on the web,
but also who can access it and at what price." For Murdoch, the price,
it seems, is not right.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci