Rupert Murdoch

Video: Fox 31's Eli Stokols drops F-bombs on Occupy Denver protesters

Update below: When Occupy Denver members mark the group's six-month anniversary next week, they'll focus on accomplishments. One example: Protesters recently interrupted and shut down a live Fox 31 broadcast with complaints of subpar previous coverage. From there, as you'll see in the video below, t ... More >>

Rachel Maddow applauds Denver's Newmont Mining, Monday's stock market champ (VIDEO)

Video below.​Why did proud progressive Rachel Maddow pay a slow-clap tribute to, of all companies, Denver-based Newmont Mining on her MSNBC show last night? Because, in a day of epic losses on Wall Street following Standard & Poor's U.S. credit downgrade, Newmont stood out as the rare non-los ... More >>

Reader: Peter Boyles proves you can be conservative and intellectually honest...or an idiot

​What radio station are you listening to right now? If you have the radio on at all, odds are good that it's tuned to 630 AM, where Peter Boyles is not just beating the competition, but crushing it. But last week's report on KHOW's great early-morning numbers didn't surprise some readers.

Stephen Colbert reports: Rupert Murdoch angry enough to buy Colorado (VIDEO)

Video below.​What's the scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's media empire got to do with Colorado? Plenty, according to none other than Stephen Colbert, whose report last night about the "five-time Illuminati Dark Lord of the Month" contained not one but two references to our fair state -- which ... More >>

Marijuana critic William Breathes's sublime & ridiculous global media blitz (AUDIO, VIDEO)

Mr. Breathes.​If medical marijuana reviewer William Breathes looks tired lately, it's not because he's been critiquing too much weed. Since being featured on Rupert Murdoch's iPad-friendly The Daily and National Public Radio, he's been absolutely inundated with interview requests, many from in ... More >>

Medical marijuana critic William Breathes fires up for Rupert Murdoch's The Daily (VIDEO)

Video below.​Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes has gotten blurry-face time on loads of media outlets, from CNN to The Daily Show. But the latest profile can be found in an unusual place: The Daily, an iPad-specific venture launched by Fox-y titan Rupert Murdoch. In the video, ... More >>

The Daily: Five ways it could fail

​Rupert Murdoch's News Corp unveiled The Future of Journalism this morning in an elaborate, hour long event at the Guggenheim in New York. The product: The first tablet-native newspaper, a 14 cents per day, iPad-only publication called The Daily. There was some amount of fervor surrounding it ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch craps on journalism again: The Sun admits to making up front-page story

​It's almost an affront to the word "news" that the Rupert Murdoch-owned umbrella conglomerate that oversees media outlets like Fox News and the UK's The Sun is generically called News Corporation, since that term generally implies facts. Facts, however, have never been the specialty of either ... More >>

Five fearless tech predictions for 2010

Nostradamus predicted Twitter, but he never thought Facebook would be as big as it is.​The end of the year -- and the decade -- is just around the corner. So it seemed like a good time to pull out the old crystal ball and look ahead to the year and decade to come. Predicting technology is a f ... More >>

Kotaku's Child's Play Fundraiser lets gamers rock out for a cause -- and goodies

DJ Hero​Denverite Brian Crecente is sort of the Rupert Murdoch of video games. As the editor-in-chief of the influential video game blog Kotaku, Crecente, a former Rocky Mountain News scribe, was recently named of the twenty most influential people in the video-game industry by GamePro magazin ... More >>

Forbes dubs Phil Anschutz a "stealth media mogul"

Phil Anschutz. In recent days, Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz has been in the news due to his aborted promotion of a fifty-date Michael Jackson tour -- a reversal that could cost a fortune (although, frankly, Anchutz can afford to take the loss). But Forbes is taking notice of the moneybags for h ... More >>

Paging through Phil Anschutz's latest purchase, The Weekly Standard

The June 22 edition of the Weekly Standard. Phil Anschutz's slice of the Broomfield Event Center hardly represents his only recent investment. Last week, word surfaced that the Denver gazillionaire was negotiating to purchase The Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch, who may have decided that the ri ... More >>

Is Phil Anschutz more conservative than Rupert Murdoch?

Phil Anschutz. When the Rocky Mountain News was put up for sale last December, speculation immediately turned to potential buyers -- and the first name on everyone's lips was Phil Anschutz. After all, the publicity shy gazillionaire is Denver-based and had already demonstrated an interest in newspa ... More >>

Rocky Mountain News' John Temple deems KOA's alleged Scripps scoop "BS"

When he arrived at his office yesterday, Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple was greeted by an e-mail letting him know about a report from KOA radio claiming that executives from E.W. Scripps, the paper's owner, which put it up for sale last month, would be arriving in the n ... More >>

The Rocky Mountain News is going down

John Andrews' Attack on Rima Sinclair

News Corp Dumps Local Fox Affiliates

Two local Fox affiliates recently dumped by Rupert Murdoch are now enjoying their greatest success to date.

You're Getting Warmer

The Revolution Will Be Televised Part Two: The Future Is Now

The Simpsons Movie

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans: It doesn’t suck.

The Weekly World News is Dead! Sort of!

Rupert Murdoch's Foxy Move

Mountain West Conference Lineup

This debut channel is learning the rules of the game.

More Messages: Calling All Creeps

More Messages: Doubling Up

Cruella de Vogue

The Devil Wears Prada slaps the latest duds on an infamous fashion editor.

By Hart

Gary Hart on blogging, the media and his life's third act.

American I-Dull

Since anointing Kelly Clarkson, the star machine's been running on empty.

Cine Bon!

Remembering the films that heated up cinemas this year.

Off Limits

Blinding justice

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 16, 2003

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 5, 2003

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor.

Green-Light Specials

If the FCC loosens its rules, will media giants go on a radio-and-TV shopping spree? Absolutely.

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Net Loss

The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

Head to Head

Fox Sports Net wants to beat local TV stations at their own game.

Leftoverture

Alternative rockers are getting behind Alternative Radio.

Pull the Strings!

A weird concept makes Being John Malkovich a one-of-a-kind experience.

High Wire Acts

Stephen Keating reads from Cutthroat: High Stakes and Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier

It's in the Can

Poetic Justice

Ask Not for Whom the Bulls Toll

All-Pro Chaos

Kill the Empire

Twenty Years of Denver

007 by the Numbers

Off Limits

Diamonds Are a Mogul's Best Friend

No Magic Wanda