Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture agent @ local farmers market...

[Wifezilla]

Love it!

 

[EliteTempleton]

Sound's like Dunkopf already knows this, but how many of you knew most of the news (in the United Kingdom, United States and Asian media markets...) you see is financed by foreign shareholders/boardmembers (Links included from a mostly neutral source, no conspiracy, just facts):

Quote:
Actually, not all of them are "old" or men: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation#Shareholders
No argument against the twisted minds part though

The company's Board of Directors (according to wikipedia):

Rupert Murdoch (Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer): (b.1931) An Australian native Rupert Murdoch, who was listed three times in the Time 100 as one among the most influential people in the world and has been using that influence since before 1964 for political influence including in 1972, when, in that year's election, Murdoch threw his growing power behind the Australian Labor Party under the leadership of Gough Whitlam and duly saw it elected.

José María Aznar: (b.1953) Former Prime Minister of Spain

Natalie Bancroft (Director): (b. circa 1980) is a member of the board of directors of News Corporation and a member of the Bancroft family, which controlled the Dow Jones media empire for decades. She was appointed to the board of News Corporation at the age of 27, following News Corporation's acquisition of Dow Jones.

Peter Barnes: (b.?) Raised in New York City; Barnes is an ardent environmentalist and an outspoken advocate of the need to reduce carbon emissions. He originated the terms "Capitalism 3.0" and "Sky Trust".

Chase Carey (Deputy Chairman, President & Chief Operating Officer): (b.1954)

Kenneth E. Cowley: (b.1936) Nationality: Australia

David F. DeVoe (Chief Financial Officer): (b.1947) Nationality: United States

Viet Dinh: (b.1968) a lawyer and a conservative legal scholar who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush. Born in Saigon, in the former South Vietnam, he was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Rod Eddington: (b.1950) Nationality: Australia CoporateWatch Quote:

Director of Newscorp and Chief Executive of British Airways. Prior to joining British Airways, Eddington was Managing Director of Cathay Pacific. Following the end of a strike by the Flight Attendants Union, Eddington said he had learnt two lessons. First, that there was a need for tougher labour laws – including legislation allowing firms to sack strikers and force unions into ‘cooling-off periods’. Second, that it was important to try and win such battles in the media. Reflecting on press coverage of the strike, he said:

‘Clearly, when it was 4,000 pretty girls against a bunch of old men in grey suits, we didn’t stand a chance. But that didn’t mean we didn’t have to try.’

When Eddington, now at British Airways, joined the Newscorp board in 1999, winning battles in the media became much easier. Without revealing Eddington’s involvement with its parent company, 'The Sun' launched a one-sided attack against the GMB during the Heathrow dispute. According to the News Corp newspaper, strikers were recreating ‘1970s anarchy’, spoiling honeymoons and motivated by ‘sheer spite and bloody-mindedness’.

Mark Hurd: (b.1957) Born New York, Resides in Palo Alto, California, USA - Past chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. Hurd resigned his positions at HP on August 6, 2010, after an internal investigation uncovered expense-account irregularities. Looks like this wiki board of directors list is a touch old as wiki also has this to say about Mark

Hurd served on the board of directors of News Corporation until 2010, but was not renominated to his seat following the Jodie Fisher scandal

Andrew S. B. Knight (Chairman, J. Rothschild Capital Management Limited): (b.1939 - England)

James Murdoch (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Europe & Asia): (b1972) Born in London.

James Murdoch has 2 children, Anneka (born in May 2003 in Hong Kong) and Walter (born 2006), with his American wife Kathryn Hufschmid, who works for the Clinton Climate Initiative, a charitable foundation set up by the former US president, Bill Clinton in 2006.[2]

Lachlan Murdoch: (b.1971) He has since left News Corp and

Murdoch has pursued a keen interest in medical development following his work on HIV/AIDS. Murdoch reportedly indirectly owns a stake in Australian biotech company Fermiscan following wife Sarah's breast cancer advocacy work and has a number of medical development projects under way.

Sounds like a decent guy...

Thomas J. Perkins: (b.1932 - American)

Perkins resigned from HP's board on May 18, 2006, over the actions taken by the board's chair, Patricia C. Dunn, to ferret out the board-level source of media leaks using methods Perkins considered unethical and possibly illegal.

Arthur M. Siskind (Senior Adviser to the Chairman): (b.1938) American. Lawyer.

John L. Thornton: (b.1954) is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Stanley S. Shuman (Director Emeritus): (b.1934) According to NewsCorps own website he has resigned but is still active

Also note: The second largest shareholder: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia

A somewhat recent (2002) retiree: Geoffrey C. Bible Corporate Watch had this to say:

A director since 1998, sixty-six year old Bible is also Chairman of Wagga Enterprises. In 2001, Bible was rated as sixty-sixth on world executive pay.8 Between 1991 and 2002, Bible personally donated $131,000 to political parties, candidates and political action commitees (PACS).9

Up until his retirment in 2002, Bible was CEO of Philip Morris (now known as the Altria Group). As head of Philip Morris, Bible said it would be 'very un-American' to suggest tobacco companies should not be involved in helping the World Health Organization (WHO) develop regulations for tobacco companies. He went on to suggest that:

'This organization [the WHO] has extraordinary influence on government and consumers and we must find a way to diffuse this and reorient their activities to their prescribed mandate.'10

Never heard of News Corp? Well you know of one of their assets and probably pay some of your hard earned $ to at least one of them (it's a 12 page list... )

Perhaps this explains some of the skepticism when we hear a New Corp asset bit of information?

 

[chickened]

Yep, started with Walter Cronkite, was the most trusted man in America at his peak.