Rupert Murdoch’s mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. High-handed treatment from Amazon, that is. On News Corp.’s (NWS) fiscal-year-end earnings call with analysts, the notoriously shoot-from-the-hip mogul suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue…
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UK police won’t reopen phonetap case
British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities’ mobile phone voicemails by journalists, despite new allegations against a Rupert Murdoch newspaper. […] Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police said the original probe had concluded that phone tapping had occurred in only a minority of cases. All…
Murdoch papers to be investigated for ‘blagging’
Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World and Sun will be investigated by the Metropolitan Police in London over claims they obtained personal information through deception. The police will look into the allegations, Commissioner Paul Stephenson said in an e-mailed statement today. Thirty-one journalists working for the tabloid newspapers acquired such information through “blagging,” or underhand…