keyla solis's Profile

Murdoch, the 78-year-old News Corp. (NWSA Quote) chairman and CEO who moved television news considerably to the political right with Fox News, stunned the U.S. newspaper establishment in 2007 with his purchase of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. If the $60-per-share acquisition seemed high in 2007, it now looks ridiculously so.

Still, it gave the owner of the New York Post a long-sought platform to take on his nemesis, The New York Times.

Why don't you hire away all the CNBC on-air people?

We don't think they're all that good. There are some good ones, but that'll be up to [Fox News boss] Roger Ailes. We create or we discover previously undiscovered talent and make them into stars.

Marginally better than at other newspapers, but not great. Certainly we have reduced our costs at The Journal I think fully as much as we've declined in national advertising

Afghan Star is a an example of what I call the Media Effect: accomplishing something that neither the government nor the international troops has done: bringing peace and calm for a couple of hours every week in a land where violence and fear of violence is ever present; encouraging a new kind of freedom and self expression for women, and strengthening a fragile democracy by popularizing campaigns and the power of a vote.

But the fact is that there is an effect, and there is plenty of evidence, getting more measurable and more powerful as media becomes more pervasive, more personal, more mobile and more global.

I was intrigued to read your recent statement to World Screen magazine about alleged conservative bias at the Fox News Channel.

"We are fair and balanced and we challenge anyone to show Fox News has any bias in it," you said.

The New York Times has probably killed more people than Hitler.

It was instrumental in covering up the millions murdered by Stalin in his enforced famine in the Ukraine and by his various purges.

The prevailing consensus seems to be that News Corp’s motivation was to buy ad inventory targeted at the social network’s valuable young demographic

it’s very difficult to justify a $580 million cash payment on that basis alone.

"Fantasia" (1940) During the "Pastoral Symphony" segment, a playful group of creatures includes a black centaur with exaggerated features shining the hooves of a graceful white centaur. Starting in 1969, that image was removed from all versions of "Fantasia," or framed so only the white centaur is shown.

"Song of the South" (1946) Kindly storyteller Uncle Remus (James Baskett) speaks and sings "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in an uneducated dialect suitable for a post-Civil War setting but for not modern ears. Disney stopped re-releasing it to theaters after 1986. The movie has never been available on home video in the United States, except in bootleg form.