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Stop Picking on Fox News (This Time)

Should Fox News have to give up its seat in the White House briefing room because of ideological bias? That's what the liberal group Media Matters is saying. But is this issue really worth all the hubbub?

News Corp.'s
$1 Million to the GOP: No Big Deal

It's unseemly when one of the nation's biggest news outlets drops a wad of cash on one political party. But when you get down to it, News Corp.'s donation to the Republican Governors Association is no worse than business as usual.

A Hulu IPO?

Hulu is preparing to go public, according to a report in The New York Times. The offering could value the video content website at $2 billion.

Dan Abrams's Mediaite Tests the Limits of Fair Use

Just what constitutes "fair use" of copyrighted material has always been hard to define. Now a new website, Mediaite.com, is using that ambiguity to build a business model on other companies' content.

Dirty Apps? Apple's Erratic Censorship

Steve Jobs' dictate that apps for Apple's iPad and iPhone contain no pornography or nudity affects plenty of major magazines, including Playboy and Cosmopolitan. How are they dealing with it?

News Corp. Earnings Up, Outlook Robust

Chairman Rupert Murdoch was optimistic about the advertising outlook for News Corp., which reported earnings of $875 million. He also called the iPad "a real game-changer in the presentation of news" at the earnings call.

Glenn Beck Loses an Advertiser, but He's Not Going Anywhere

"Everyone should have Glenn Beck's problems," says one observer. With top ratings in his TV time slot, a combined radio and TV audience of more than 9 million and an estimated net worth of $22 million, losing a few advertisers isn't fatal.

The Five-Minute Guide to News Corp.'s Scandals

It's truly touching to see how concerned the New York Post is about CNN's innocence following its hire of Eliot Spitzer. But while the Post looks out for CNN's soul, who's looking out for the Post's?

WSJ Slashes Prices as Murdoch Aims at NY Times

Rupert Murdoch has a history of contrarian gambles that pay off big. But with newspaper advertising in an historic slump and online ad spend overtaking print for the first time, is his new price war with The New York Times a smart move?

MySpace Traffic May Be Lower Than We Thought

Things may be even worse than they seemed at News Corp.'s foundering social-media network MySpace, whose online press kit boasts it has 100 million active users -- but who may be much closer in number to 18 million, and falling fast.

Murdoch: NY Times No Longer Covers NYC

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch today officially acknowledged that The Wall Street Journal will launch a widely expected metro section covering New York -- because, he implied, the Journal's archrival The New York Times is no longer covering it.

Dow Jones Buys Other Half of SmartMoney

Dow Jones and Co., a unit of News Corp., announced Tuesday that it is buying out Hearst's remaining 50% stake in SmartMoney, making Dow Jones the sole owner of the personal finance magazine.

It's Official! Cowell to Quit 'Idol'

Simon Cowell is calling it quits from Fox's American Idol after this season, he told the Television Critics Association on Monday. Cowell says he plans to focus on developing a U.S. version of the U.K. program The X Factor, in which he has an ownership interest.