In 1999, The Economist reported that Newscorp Investments had made £1.4 billion ($2.1 billion) in profits over the previous 11 years but had paid no net corporation tax. It also reported that after an examination of the available accounts, Newscorp could normally have been expected to pay corporate tax of approximately $350 million. The article explained that in practice the corporation’s complex structure, international scope and use of offshore tax havens allowed News Corporation to pay minimal taxes.[40][41]

Recently, Murdoch has bought out the Turkish TV channel, TGRT, which had been previously confiscated by the Turkish Board of Banking Regulations, TMSF. Newspapers report that Murdoch has bought TGRT in a partnership with the Turkish recording mogul Ahmet Ertegün, and Murdoch is alleged to have acquired Turkish citizenship in order to overcome the current prohibition against capital sales to foreigners.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdock

This link is for info above also.

On September 4, 1985, Murdoch became a naturalized citizen in order to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens were permitted to own American television stations.
In 1995, Murdoch’s Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.’s Australian base made Murdoch’s ownership of Fox illegal. However, the FCC ruled in Murdoch’s favor, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the best interests of the public. In the same year, Murdoch announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website, as well as founding a conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard. In the same year, News Corp. launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in partnership with Telstra.

In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news station. Following its launch, the heavily-funded Fox News consistently eroded CNN’s market share and eventually proclaimed itself as “the most-watched cable news channel.” Recent ratings studies released in the fourth quarter of 2004 showed that the network was responsible for nine of the top ten programs in the “Cable News” category.

Which would seem to make putting this up, worth doing:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories…..0694.shtml

Not to mention that back in 2006, when the debate over the war in Iraq, and over FauxNews’ pimping of it were intense, to say the least, Hillary lent herself and the dignity of her Senate seat to Fox, by attending their 10th anniversay birthday bash.

Sara December 9th, 2008 at 10:31 pm 85
In most cases, I disagree with Dynasty — but I think it quite unfair not to mention in the case of Caroline Kennedy a few of the things she has actually done that might just add to the level of intelligence in the Senate. Most of these things have gone unmentioned in this debate.

In reading Ted Sorensen’s recent book — he offers considerable detail as to how, beginning when she was about 15, he took her through a multi-year tutorial on the politics of JFK. They hung out at the Kennedy Library for days at a time, going through files — both open and closed — and through that process she learned about each of the key issues JFK had to deal with both during his Senate years, and as President. Sorensen provided her with reading lists regarding many of these topics (she did the reading) and then followed long discussions about it all. Jackie wanted her prepared to assume the Family Seat on the board of the Library, and she didn’t want the Irish Mafia influencing her introduction to the topics — thus Sorensen. From what Sorensen has to say, I gather the two subjects that most interested her were the Cuban Missile Crisis and Civil Rights.

With respect to the Cuban Missile Crisis — Caroline eventually planned and executed a three part set of conferences — the first in Havana, the second in Moscow, and the third in Boston that brought together the living participants in all three countries, the Historians, and some people from the press to sort out the crisis. Each country declassified virtually all the relevant archives and made them available to scholars and thus over a three year period the conference met, reviewed the documents and analysis, and deposited both their consideration and review — and all the international documentation in facilities in all three countries. In the US of course, it is at the Kennedy Library. Apparently Caroline planned a good deal of the proceedings, arranged for books to be published, etc. (Things like Patterns of Soviet Crisis Management — you know, your ordinary best seller.) Caroline did this during the first Clinton Administration — largely because Bill Clinton was willing to get US documents declassified in a thorough way. (He was also willing to grant visas for Cuban Scholars to come to the US to participate, and for US participants to travel to Cuba.) It was her first big effort after she took a seat on the Library Board, and after the Irish Mafia’s power over the way the Library worked was ended. It is considered now a model in how Presidential Libraries should work with Scholars and Historians on classified, controversial and sensitive issues, particularly when international negotiation is necessary to flesh out the whole story. You can’t deal with this one without Cuban and Russian participation.

As to Civil Rights — Caroline Kennedy has for sometime been on the Board of the NAACP Legal and Educational Foundation — not the same as the NAACP. Commonly called the INC FUND, it is the outgrowth of the specialized Law Firm Thurgood Marshall built back in the 30’s and 40’s to fight the major Civil Rights Cases — and it continues that work. Virtually all the INC fund board members are working Constitutional Lawyers, as is Caroline Kennedy. These days much of the INC fund work is in Appeals Courts, and Kennedy is associated with a major Civil Rights Firm and works on INC Fund briefs.

She has written a book on the Bill of Rights, with a co-author from her firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. It is written for a popular audience but is essentially a constitutional law effort — much detail on key and critical case law as it defines the meaning of “Rights.” And yes, it covers privacy as it has been construed from the rights and case law — but it deals with much more. It might be interesting to ask what kind of constitutional questions Caroline Kennedy has worked on as a lawyer, connected to the INC Fund.

My guess is that she chose this kind of legal practice largely because she had three children, the two oldest are in College or beyond now, and the third is just starting college. While I am certain she had household help and all — she did raise her children herself. Writing briefs and a book can easily be combined with organizing a family — much easier than, for instance, doing trial law.

Before she went to Law School she worked with her Mother on a major publication on the Moghul Law and Arts in India. As part of this, she worked as an intern in Jaipur, the location of much Moghul Art as well as a University faculty dedicated to the study of Moghul governance of India. I believe she was resident there for the greater part of a year. I know a former Fulbright Professor who overlapped with her year there, a Political Scientist, and he thought she was a very serious student of Moghul governance. What that detailed knowledge has to do with serving New York in the Senate, I don’t know — but I bet no one else in the Senate has actually studied Islamic Law and Governance in Sixteenth Century India.

In recent years she has been working with Joel Klein on the New York City Schools. Apparently among other things, she has raised nearly a hundred million dollars for projects not covered by tax dollars. Much of it, I believe has gone toward building out some of the Charter Schools in the New York System, but also renovation of older and poorer schools in the system. She seems to have also worked to develop and fund Arts, Music and Dance programs in the schools. She is apparently pretty deep in the weeds as to the problems of large urban public school systems, and has considerable knowledge of what is needed.

In the Obama Campaign, I believe she took primary responsibility for organizing the Fellows Program — which set up short term schools on community organization for volunteers, and then sent them out to work in the many Field Offices established around the country. Most of the Fellows were recent college graduates or college students.

Now I don’t know if she would be the best of all possible Senators in the best of all possible worlds — but besides having a coloring book named for her when she was three or four, I think she would bring considerable life experience to the Senate that it does not otherwise have, and that just might enrich the place. I am not bothered by the fact that she has never run for office — the Senate is full of people who have climbed state political ladders as a career. I doubt if she would have trouble raising campaign money, and she would have her choice of campaign managers — and she would not need to depend on PAC’s and Lobbyists for either money or information on legislative matters.

What has distressed me in the last few days of the discussion about all this is the failure to actually look up or ask the question, what has she been up to all these years? I think she has actually done fairly interesting stuff in addition to raising a family.

http://firedoglake.com/2008/12…..gn-for-it/

Stay classy, Lisa Derrick!

“Caroline should show her mettle and get a cover-up, a piece which if done by a skilled artist could disguise the blurry butterfly and give her an elegant yet edgy air…perfect for connecting with Gen X and Y.
Because God knows she doesn’t really do that right now….”

WTF does that even mean? As for the rest, its just cheap. Unworthy of this blog. Congrats to the poster for revealing far more of herself than her intended target.