Unhappy Birthday?

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Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American investor and media proprietor. Born: 11 March 1931, in Melbourne.

One week from today, the 91year old will turn 92 years old, as his long list of dubious deeds slowly catches up to him in the courts. But there are steps the average consumer can push back. Read on to learn how.

The FCC could choose to act against Rupert Murdoch for Fox News’ election lies. The media regulator was once more adversarial and had various rules it could enforce. https://www.nbcnews.com/media/fcc-rupert-murdoch-fox-news-rcna74187

As Fox News faces a hailstorm of trouble as more and more revelations come out in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against the network, the company reportedly owns hundreds of local, national, and international publishing and media platforms.

Publishing

News Corp. holdings include three national newspapers in the U.K.; almost 150 publications in Australia; the New York Post and Community Newspaper Group in the United States; The Wall Street Journal and related publications in the U.S., Europe, and Asia; Dow Jones information services;

HarperCollins book publishers. The list includes:

Daily Telegraph; Dow Jones; Harper Collins Publishers; Herald Sun; Inside Out; New York Post; News International; N.T. News; Post-Courier; Sunday Herald Sun; Sunday Mail; Sunday Times; The Advertiser; The Australian; The Courier-Mail; The Daily; The Mercury; The Sunday Mail; The Sunday Telegraph; The Sun; The Sunday Times; The Times; Times Literary Supplement; The Wall Street Journal; The Wall Street Journal Digital Network; Weekly Times; Zondervan.

Broadcasting

Businesses include the FOX Broadcasting Company, the 27 Fox Television Stations group stations, and various television operations worldwide. Cable properties produce and license programming for cable and satellite platforms in the U.S. and Asia, including the FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network, F.X., and STAR. News Corporation wholly owns Italy's most popular pay-TV company, SKY Italia. The company also has significant holdings in British Sky Broadcasting, Germany's Sky Deutschland, Asia's TATA SKY, and FOXTEL in Australia and New Zealand.

The list includes:

FOX Broadcasting Company; FOX Sports; FOX Sports Australia; FOX Television Stations; MyNetworkTV; Big Ten Network; FOX Business Network; FOX Movie Channel; FOX News Channel; FOX College Sports; FOX Sports Enterprises; FOX Deportes; FOX Sports Net; FOX Soccer Channel; Fuel T.V.; F.X.; Nat Geo Wild; National Geographic Channel United States; National Geographic Channel Worldwide; Speed; STAR; Stats, Inc.; BSkyB; FOXTEL; Sky Deutschland; SKY Italia.

Movie and television production and distribution

Move production and distribution through Fox Filmed Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Film. Television production includes 20th Century Fox Television and other T.V. studios.

The list includes:

20th Century Fox; 20th Century Fox Espanol; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; 20th Century Fox International; 20th Century Fox Television; Fox Searchlight Pictures; Fox Studios Australia; Fox Studios LA; Fox Television Studios; Blue Sky Studios; Shine Group.

Other assets

"Next generation" media properties include Hulu, an online video joint venture with NBC Universal and Disney, and News Outdoor, an outdoor advertising company.

The list includes:

American Idol.com; AskMen; careerone.com.au; CARSguide.com.au; Fox.com; FoxSports.com; FoxSports.com.au; hulu.com; IGN Entertainment; Milkround; National Rugby League; NDS; News.com.au; News Digital Media; News Outdoor; Scout; Spring Widgets; truelocal.com.au; WhatIfSport.

The Australian-born American media mogul who founded News Corp. In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his U.K. printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. By 2000, Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, with a net worth of over $5 billion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMq7R8CBWw

That was then; this is now.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-03-04/ru…

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/1161063760/the-dominion-lawsuit-pulls-ba…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/03/fox-punished-journalist…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/business/media/fox-dominion-conserva…

https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-murdochs-empire-of-influence

Besides not watching or boycotting his advertisers, consumers can challenge his broadcast licenses with the FCC, and cable customers can also go to https://unfoxmycablebox.com/