you make the case in the book that rupert murdoch's impact on media almost can't be overstated. most people here are familiar but what is the short version? >> i think that murdoch is pretty unquestionably, at the moment, and for the last several decades, been the most influential and important media figure in the english speaking world. you have a guy who whose holding decision it's a publicly traded company that he has run and yet he runs it like a family concern, with reason. he structured it in such a way where he and his children essentially control almost a pure majority of votes in such a way where it's impossible to hold them in check. but they have holdings that span six continents. the company controls 65 to 70% of major newspaper circulation his native australia. until the scandal they controlled 40% of national newspaper circumstance nation the uk, which is a national newspaper market. that is now down to 36-38%, but still in american minds quite astonishing. the most powerful private broadcaster in the uk, and what is called sky or fox news here, fx, the simpsons thi

rupert murdoch cannot be surprised by his level of confidence.aughter] >> i just love it -- we should have a show where we asked rupert murdoch questions on ongoing basis. what is your favorite color? where do like to go for holiday? remarkable fascinating answers to important questions that amazes me. that is why he was so perfect for twitter when he was doing it for a while a while. inscrutable man. >> jon, you cover the cable wars. traditional broadcasting, where do you see this heading with aereo? >> a good cover headline that they will win. a real serious story. if aereo is successful, it raises questions for all of the cable companies that are paying this high amounts of money to the content creators to carry their shows, we have reported here that you can see those pay- tv operators create our partner with aereo or create their own service. there's a lot left. >> it is a serious story. we will hear from aereo ceo. twitter reverses a policy change after just one day. what about management? that is coming up on "bloomberg west." ♪ >> welcome

'sfelt that rupert murdoch tweeting lends itself to greeting cards. >> he has been a prolific twitterr. but step back. your background as an artist. how did you come to this of using twitter as a original material for some of your expressions? >> i am a twitter addict. i love following journalists. i follow artists and writers. when i was evicted and going , i thoughttter often this would be an interesting marriage. it is very high-tech and tweets disappear in the feed. this was a way that i could take the tweets and make it permanent. it is very low-tech way. >> it takes hours and hours. what is the scale? you cannot just flip the switch and create hundreds of thousands. tell us about the scale of the business right now. the project has been very successful so far. when i launched an online, i had 30,000 hits. that is amazing for an artist. that was exciting. i have sold quite a few already. now they are in a gallery space downtown. >> this has moved from online to the off-line world. >> now we are back into analog. [laughter] >> how did that happen? >> someone was interested in taki

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the news came out the hacking trial of executives and editors from rupert murdoch's tabloid empire backn in 2007. the tabloids and paparazzi were exxon constantly stalking her. videos just like this raising concerns for her safety, especially given what happened to william's mother, princess diana. all we learned from the short voice mails was that kate's privacy was violated and that she and the prince were very much in love. he apparently refers to her as babykins. now to the video wall with the strongest videos that have come into cnn in the last 24 hours. let's begin with this surveillance video taken on a seattle bus. watch what happens when this man tries to rob this passenger at gun point. talk about quick reflexes. this guy doesn't even blink. he goes straight for the gun and you see people getting out of their seats. several brave samaritans jumping in to take down the robber. police arrest him soon after. and this one is for you lego lovers. you can build pretty cool scuff with these things, but a car you can actually drive? yes. look at this. this is possible. a teenager in r

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news they know about rupert murdoch owning the profits and all the others they know about disney owning a.b.c. news i think that's savvier consumers don't trust a lot of us mainstream media because the corporate owners are so off powerful have so many interests and are so cozy with the state and you know i should say that we're not the only problem that has. not the only country that has a problem of corporate ownership is too cozy with the state you're about it written in relation to france and mexico and russia and all these other countries but in our country we're totally you know immersed in this propaganda about our free press and where the prius brass and in reality in recent years because of corporate ownership of the media there's just been so much coziness big reporters big bankers with the corporate and political powers that be that you can't trust warning today as being fully independent how we knew is this phenomenon i mean we always think of these media baron these very wealthy newspaper tycoons from the old days citizen kane what is it what is the new my newspaper baron to

rupert murdoch's latest plan to take over the universe. >> i he always loved sports.imes in my career over the years -- >> you did stuff before fox sports? >> yes. and we would always talk about sports on my talk show with my cohost and neither one of them would listen to me. [laughter] and they'd say, what ithis about. >> i'm wondering, you joke about yourself, an 81-year-old guy, would he think of this? >> i think that it can be done. i hope it can be done. instead of just athles, we need entertainers in there as well. we have a guy coming up next wednesday on the show, bill cosby. o played defensive back for temple university. they are growing into a pretty goodootball machine. so all of a sudden on my notre dame schedule this year, it's the first game that they play and bill cosby do about as well. and i said, we have to get them on the show. hee flew down to philalphia to give the team a pep talk. [laughter] eil: you have a pretty impressive rolodex over the years. the president, stars, all o that. neil: everyone says you et the reviews and it sounds so similar t

they include seinfeld star julia louis-dreyfus, jay leno, rupert murdoch, writer-producer david e- kelleyc brandon stoddard. sound pioneer ray dolby will be inducted post- humously. the new hall of fame members will be honored in a beverly hills ceremony in march. some new inductees into the rock and roll hall of fame next year. they include kiss and first time nominees peter gabriel and 90's grunge band nirvana. hall and oates, linda rondstadt and cat stevens also a part of the new inductees. bruce springsteen's e street band will earn the award for musical excellence. the ceremony happens in april at the barclays center in brooklyn. >> the time is 6:52 a.m.. we would check in with live shots from redwood city where we have a scrap metal yard that is on fire. you can still see that smoke building up. sleep train's interest-free for 3 event ends sunday! it's your last chance to get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. but hurry, sleep train's interest

rupert murdoch. the british papers have been giving him a tough time.onship with nelson mandela. you were speaking about the possibility of [ inaudible ] and it calls to mind the only known encounter between an american president and a post-revolutionary period cuban leader was in september of 2000, that day at the united nations ca castro came side by side with clinton. shook hands with bill clinton. today he has two speakers among these very special dignitaries, president obama and raul castro. that will be closely watched checking in with people who flew over in air force one and members of the international security team have no assurances of seating arrangements or any ways of keeping them apart. you don't know whether or not according to protocol or however they are going to arrange this whether or not castro would be seated near barack obama. >> we were saying they will go through extraordinary lengths to keep everybody separate. you hear the applause for some of the dignitaries for entered. those of you waiting for the arrival of president obama

right now here the star of fox sports 1, why he signed on to rupert murdoch's latest plan to take overe. >> i have always loved sports. there were times when, in my career over the years, i had a little sports show here andt there. you did stuff before sports 1? >> yeah. neil: oh. >> eejoyed it very much. would always talk about sports on my talk show with my co-host, she wouldn't, neither one would ever listen. gelman, is he talking about sports? neil: but, i'm wondering you joke about it yourself, 81-year-old guy, reaching to the 18 to 49 demo. what do you think of that? >> i think it can be done. i'm hoping it can be done. i'm going to do things like, you know, instead of just athletes, we've got to have some entertainers in there as well. got a guy coming up next wednesday on the show, bill cosby. neil: oh, wow. >> played defensive back for temple university.ay neil: true. >> last couple years, temple university is growing into pretty good football machine. and so all of sudden on my notre dame schedule this year is temple!, the first game we play. so cosby knew about it too. and i

>> but news core chairman rupert murdoch has always been a newsman.e has been committed to starting a first class news operation that, too, would be innovative and cutting edge. >> we can firmly announce the starting of a fox news channel. >> rub pert is the kind of man who took risks, put up money and took risks to back them. >> mr. murdoch took faith in roger ails. he clearly stated the anythings of fox news to report every side of the story unbiased and unfiltered. >> the american people are smart. they know the difference between news, fact, analysis, commentary, opinion, spin and bs. the other news organizations won't tell you the difference, we will. >> you are about to enter the no spin zone. >> is it better for our country to know the details of what the elected officials are doing? >> i would argue yes it is. >> there aren't people who live in los angeles and san francisco and boston in those big cities weren't served all of the time. >> it was a market sitting there waiting to be served. we served them. >> fair and balanced. taking friem tim

kate, duchess of cambridge had her cell phone voice mails hacked by rupert murdoch's "news of the world" tabloid. former editors of the newspaper rebekah brooks and andy coulson both on trial for illegally tapping the phones of several storied subjects. this is the first time the paper has been accused directly of hacking the royal family. today the jury in a london court heard transcripts of voicemails dating back to 2006 when she was dating him. he calls her by pet names, baby and babykins and being nearly shot by training rounds. this is the worst known death since the death of princess dinan diana. tylenol cold® helps relieve your worst cold and flu symptoms. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol cold®. answer about whether or not you're going to run for president. >> i haven't made up my mind. i'll look carefully and what i can do and make that decision sometime next year. >> sometime next year hillary clinton hinting and ducking but her time line for 2016 on barbara walters special. joining me the daily fix white house correspondent julie and steven hayes

. >> it is the first time rupert murdoch's news of the world has been accused of targeting the royals, transcripts of affectionate voicemails from prince william to then girl friend kate middleton were read to the london jury. in one he of refers to -- in one he refers to kate as babykins. some londoners say they are not surprised by eavesdropping. >> they like listening to people's phone calls 100%. >> i think it's a sad indictment on the media itself. >> two employees of the now defunct paper have been convicted of hacking the phones of royal aides. prosecutors say prince harry's voicemail was also intercepted. in one prince harry pretending to be his brother's girl friend calls his brother a big fat hairy enginier which is a nickname for red -- harry ginger which is a nickname for redheads. >>> there is 15,000 feet of holiday themed sighs sculptures where we find -- ice sculptures where we find after. >> reporter: look around, a -- where we find debra alfarone. >> reporter: look around, a sea of blue. it's about 9 degrees. it's so cold our thermometer doesn't even register. it brok

rupert murdoch's newscorp bought a news agency and the column by cnn's beijing bureau chief is worth can find it all on the reliable sources blog on cnn.com. thanks for watching this week. i'd love to hear what you thought of today's show on facebook and twitter. i hope you all have a merry christmas and we'll see you right back here live next week sunday at 11:00 a.m. "state of the union with candy crowley" begins right now. >>> dozens of americans trapped inside an increasingly unstable south sudan. and imbalance at the nsa, security versus privacy. today a panel the president appointed tells him to rein in the national security agency. >> whatever benefits the configuration of this program may have may be outweighed by the concerns that people have on this potential abuse. and if that's the case, there may be another way of skinning the cat. >> we tal t

inequality is no the a problem and it has been growing since 2009, but even conservatives like rupert murdoch are warning about a, quote, class society and decline in opportunity but inequality driven more by rising stock markets and capital gains by the wealthy than the decline of those in the bottom. it is a byproduct of growth more than a cause of recession. i think too many people are conflating the recession with inequality. >> all right. robert and kayla, thank you very much. stay with us for a moment as we talk a little bit more about the wealth gap and to do that let's bring in eamon javers in washington. on that report that bank tellers comes at a bad time for the banks when they're making tons of money. >> yeah. look, tyler, this is an extraordinarily profitable industry, high paying for those at the top. a couple caveats about this study in the "washington post" today. the "washington post" reports it was released by a labor backed group and just so coincidentally happens to come on a day when a labor backed president is making an inequality speech. it may not shock you to suspect

scandal where for the first time a london court heard proof that the royal family was a target of rupert murdoch'sabloid. in the trial this morning, the court heard transcripts of intimate voicemail messages left by prince william to his then-girlfriend kate in which he calls her baby. until now, hacking allegations had only included the phones of royal aides. it's the latests in a long line of ugly revelations about the now defunct murdoch rag. >>> yeah, well, on that note, that's your news cycle. now to the spin. there is a new face of obamacare, people. no, the healthcare.gov lady is not back. it's this guy, pajama boy. he's the face of -- >> that's not pajama boy. >> who is that? >> you got hacked, jonathan. >> as i was saying, pajama boy, who you should have seen, is the face of the healthcare.gov website, trying to get younger americans to sign up for obamacare before monday's deadline. the tweet sent out by organizing for action reads, wear pajamas, drink hot chocolate, talk about getting health insurance. as you can see, he's rocking a killer flannel onesie. if that doesn't make you want t

probably dow jones was not for rupert murdoch. >> think about upholding democracy. >> there we go.of democracy or the lack thereof, and where french or chinese billionaires do not want to be, francois hollande has won approval for a 75% tax on anyone who earns more than a million dollars. a millionaire in euros, i guess. i said it all in the headlines. taxes of 75% on salaries above a million euros, $1.4 million. infuriated companies and soccer teams which threatened to go on strike. , who won said he did not like the rich, announce the tax last year as part of the presidential year. we remember it because it was so insane, and it actually is going to happen. >> you are actually saying hollande correctly, even though you are a german-speaking guy. likes france is next door, so you learn these things. for someone from america, it is absolutely nuts. >> you are from a household that has a connection. germans see it as not as insane as we would, because they are also a social democracy. >> older people are cared for. kids have health care. all the things -- >> people do not have to wo

still in the army messages recovered from the home of a private investigator employed by gasp rupert murdoch's news of the world. the sunday tabloid discontinued by the australian born media mogul in the face of outrage over phone tapping. and that's it for this edition after we tell you first about this final story. newer models to be expected soon on the streets of havana cuban state media. announcing the liberalization of car sales and the latest opening of the economy. today it's still mostly a mix of vintage pre nineteen fifty nine revolution american models and soviet era vehicles new imports though will be taxed at one hundred percent. this to help repair. cuba is crumbling infrastructure time now for the false and death debate the eye. log on this is time for the false then get to be more than thirty senior police sector transferred to a top prosecutor removed possibly according to one reporter report that since been denied turkey's prime minister quick to hit back at a major anti corruption scoop targeting his political inner circle. when you are. i sit in cardiac glad to see a very d

they include sign field star julia louis-dreyfus, jay leno, rupert murdoch, writer-producer david e.ey and network executives brandon stoddard. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news a home under construction collapses and morning news a home under construction collapses and ♪ >> a fire is burning at a scrap metal facility in redwood city. this is video from the last fire that happened last month. we have crews on the scene and will bring you the latest. >> it's warming up in the bay area. but how long can we expect it to last? your weather forcast in just a moment. >> heartbreaking new developments about a local teenage girl. who went in for routine surgery at an oakland hospital. and ended up on life support. now the gut wrenching decision the family has to make on wether or not-- take her off life support. >> and the federal agency investigating the richmond refinery fire. is pointing blame at both chevron and the state regulatory process. we'll tell you why. >> we are waking up to high clouds and here is a live look outside. this is overlooking the san francisco skyline 7:00 a.m.

thomson, the guy who bought the times of london, now owned by rupert murdoch news corp., put canada onmap by owning the times. he had an empire of 200 newspapers, but the times was the crown jewel. everyone always assumes ken thompson, his son, inherited 100% of his fortune and david thompson inherited 100% of the family fortune, which includes a 55% stake. this is not the case that this is the way it has been written north of the border for decades. >> a longtime belief that these were the aristocracy was true. >> exactly. >> is the money. >> imagine waking up in the morning and finding out you are not rich. he knew. we have printed this way, bloomberg billionaires index put david thompson as 20th in the world's richest people and forced to the same thing. here, the chronicler of canada's wealthiest people, and similarly , he wrote that ken thompson passed on the fortune to david thompson and that is the way it worked. >> yugo is making the point he .new >> of course. there is some untruths best left undisturbed. out, this has almost become fact in canada. it is -- it's the to the cou

technology, the tie i'm wearing right now which is, excuse me, is an ike barr or as i would say a rupert murdoch digitally change this. >> absolutely could. we could put you in a different suit, change your eyeglasses, and we could place on the table here any kind of object. adam: so is that happening right now on an individual basis or on a regional basis, and why are the companies interested in that? >> well, let's start with that part of the question. the companies or are interested in it because as our little line goes, the skip generation, people are finding ways to avoid paying attention to advertising. and advertising is the critical ingredient in bringing great content to consumers. so we're at a, we're in a difficult position. so what myriad has done is to find a way to bring brands and great content together. >> uh-huh. >> so by creating a logical and seamless integration of brands into great content. so as we were just illustrating, you could put a bottle of coca-cola on this table, and no one would have any second thought when somebody was brushing some makeup on me could change it f

they include seinfeld star julia louis-dreyfus, jay leno, rupert murdoch, writer-producer david e- kelleyrd. sound pioneer ray dolby will be inducted post-humously. the new hall of fame members will be honored in a beverly hills ceremony in march. >> you could be the next mega *billions jackpot winner! we'll tell you why the jackpot could reach one-- billion dollars by christmas! >> afire burning in redwood city, we will have the latest for you in just a few minutes. >> on one of the busiest areas are born to offer freemineta san jos wi-fi i willu more coming up. these are the hands a pediatrician. these are pioneering advances in heart surgery. and these are developing groundbreaking treatments for cancer. they're the hands of the nation's top doctors. kaiser permanente doctors. and though they are all different, they work together on a single mission: saving lives. discover how we are advancing medicine at kp.org join us, and thrive. >> good morning. the following stores that we are following is a fire in a scrap metal plant. it is starting to dissipate. it broke out overnight and this

there is one that is funded by bill gates, developed by rupert murdoch, and managed by jeff company.can collect as many as 400 different data points on a child. it will include information on their mental and physical health issues,discipline social issues like divorce or homelessness. as well as academic issues including test results and k-12.g has exploded in it is not the only database like this, nine states signed up and seven have dropped out. new york still seems to be involved. the person i read on these she is andrey waters, excellent analyst of the development. host: thank you for sharing that information. west virginia, republican line. is the u.s. becoming a police state? caller: in a way it is. when the administration used the irs to silence the tea party, that is getting pretty scary. even senators like chuck schumer and some of those senators over there wrote a letter to the irs demanding that they silence the tea party before the election. that is pretty scary. that is my opinion. host: daniel, vancouver, washington. you are on the "washington journal." caller: yes, we

. >> whoever came up with this idea was probably rupert murdoch himself to get these giant reindeer.. you can take a picture with the giant reindeer. >> how adorable. those are brand-new this year. >> that's blitzen and who is the other? >> donor. >> you're thinking vixen, but that's donner. >> two minutes after the top of the hour. >> there is a lot of uncertainty with obamacare. we're finding out what we're not finding out along the way. now we're hearing that according to the affordable care act guidelines, you can't have your prescriptions taken away, too, and the coverage that you thought you had may not apply going forward. we heard from dr. scott gutlieb talking about this. listen to what he has to say. >> there is a list of drugs that the plans cover and in many cases aren't very long. if the drugs aren't covered, then you're on your own. you basically have to pay for it entirely out of pocket. the money that you spend on those drugs doesn't count against your out of pocket limits and won't count against your deductible. this could cost patients with special conditions, patie

that stake, once they've obviously returned a lot of cash to shareholders, to buy rupert murdoch's operationpare a thought for my home country, the united kingdom, lashed by really bad storms again today. from a financial perspective, what it means is those that had to work in the city of london found it very difficult to get in in the first place, because the trains weren't working and find that those that did get in, very difficult to get home for christmas, carl, because more trains and indeed more flights have been cancelled. >> interesting insight, about how the european shopper is buffetted by transportation costs than the american consumer. >> yes, very interesting. as far as the weather concerns, a depression over the atlantic heading their way. >> simon, enjoy the holiday. >> i will, in the sun. >> nice. see you soon. our simon hobbs. >>> let's get a check on energy and commodities shares, at the imex. >> gold prices are hovering around $1,200 an ounce as the luster has come off clearly completely over this precious metal, breaking the 12-year bull run, down 28% year to date. we're

at one event, we had warren buffett pushed rupert murdoch and jeff hazel to talk about succession. bezos was silent, didn't want to talk about it. murdoch said my mother is 97, she's doing fine. and buffett said i've heard of managing outside the box before, but people don't race to that conclusion. >> i've got two quickies i need you to help me with. amy shulman, pfizer. this woman was going to be one of the most high powered people in pharma. if not in industry period. she gets kicked out of her job after announcing that she was going the take the job on january 1st. do you have any insight so what happened there? >> pfizer is the world's largest farm suitan california. jeff kind ler was brilliant to put together the deal with them. the board room machinations are ridiculous. it's a shame. i think this is a company which has needed to calm down and wrestle through some of their weird board dynamics with predecessors. >> and if you were on the board of ford, not microsoft, ford, would you let this whole alan mulally story play out the way it has? >> well, the real drama, it is a m

today's revelations refer mostly to the hacking of the duchess of cambridge cell phone a rupert murdoch tabloid that he later himself shut down. messages to the jury, including a voicemail left boy prince william in 2006 while dating kate middleton saying he was almost shot in a training exercise. i got horribly lost and i walked into some other reg minute's ambush, which was slightly embarrassing because i nearly got shot. not by live rounds but blank rounds, which would be very embarrassing. in another message william called saying, hello, baby, it's me. another voicemail from william, this one to his brother, prince harry, he mimics the voice of then girlfriend chelsea davies the message proving, too, prince harry had been hacked. the trial began in october and all seven defendants are facing various charges of phone hacking, paying bribes to officials for information and a cover up. the defendants so close to murdoch she was known as his adopted daughter deny all the charges. they could face years in jail. the prosecution claims that phone hacking was standard operating procedure at

interviewee who refuse to be video recorded and the missing link or one that got away so far goes to rupert murdoch, who agreed in principle, but the project, but things kept coming up. he had a really, really busy here and wasn't able to make it. with that, i will turn it over to my colleague, martin, who is getting down to the meat of the matter. [applause] adding a lack idea of mac [inaudible] [inaudible] -- newspaper publishing -- newspaper association of america. she was also ceo and publisher of "washington post" interactive come as a two very important roles in this history. and of course, arthur train for junior, "new york times" co. and publisher of "the new york times." i want to start with sort of a crime-fighting question to each of the panelists, starting with head and then going to my last. and it has to do with the state of journalism. if you were a doctor in the state of american journalism was your patient, how would you assess the diagnosis? >> i think if you look at the data coming you'd be really concerned because if you look at the number of journalists, it's gone down by 30% i