I use news aggregators like Reuters and Bloomberg, but mostly Google to find out about things. If it's important enough to me, I check three or four sources by using Google search.
Lonnie Courtney Clay On Monday, April 22, 2013 3:41:55 PM UTC-7, nominal9 wrote: > > shining knight of news reporting...?....the printed press is usually > better at both hard news and opinion....though there are some stinkers > there, too....I like the Christian Science Monitor, usually.... and, you > may not like it but the NYTimes is usually spot on as to the facts in their > hard news, although you may not agree with some of their "conclusions" > slant....I like English Press, too... BBC, Guardian, Daily Mail for soft > news... but there too the "conclusion" slant is "left"... otherwise spot on > factually most of the time....Bloomerg, Reuters, AP mostly good to go... > Wall Street Journal... not so much since "Rupert" took it over.... > > CNN. too far right for me.... and MSNBC... not left enough.... HAR... > > On Monday, April 22, 2013 11:53:53 AM UTC-4, Lonnie Clay wrote: >> >> So where's the shining knight of news reporting? It's certainly not CNN... >> Lonnie Courtney Clay >> >> On Monday, April 22, 2013 7:49:14 AM UTC-7, nominal9 wrote: >>> >>> See, Lonnie?.... this is the Fox I know and deride....HAR >>> >>> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-22/news-corp-agrees-to-139-million-investor-suit-accord.html >>> >>> News Corp. 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(NWS) <http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/NWS:US>’s directors >>> agreed to a $139 million settlement of investors’ claims that they turned a >>> blind eye to illegal conduct at the media company, including phone hacking >>> by employees. >>> >>> Insurance covering News Corp.’s >>> board<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/NWS:US>, >>> including Chairman Rupert >>> Murdoch<http://topics.bloomberg.com/rupert-murdoch/>, >>> will fund the settlement of >>> lawsuits<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/NWS:US>seeking to hold directors >>> accountable for the scandal sparked by the >>> exposure and attempted cover-up of illegal reporting tactics used by some >>> News Corp. journalists in the U.K., according to a statement today by the >>> company and shareholders who sued. The money will go into the company’s >>> coffers rather than to individual investors. >>> [image: Rupert Murdoch: $12 Billion Net Worth at Age 82] >>> 0:39 >>> <http://www.bloomberg.com/video/rupert-murdoch-12-billion-net-worth-at-age-82-TsliYh7ZQD%7Ece4w7r3%7EtYw.html> >>> >>> >>> April 18 (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg's Betty Liu profiles News Corp. >>> chairman Rupert Murdoch and the power he holds in the media industry. >>> >>> As part of the settlement, News Corp. officials agreed to tighten >>> oversight of the company’s operations and set up an anonymous >>> whistle-blower’s hotline for tips about misconduct, according to Delaware >>> Chancery Court filings. Shareholders who sued alleged the board’s lax >>> oversight allowed wrongdoing to flourish at the company and harmed its >>> stock price. >>> >>> “As a condition of the settlement, these enhancements will be adopted by >>> both companies that emerge from the” split of New York-based News Corp. >>> into two public companies, officials said in the statement. >>> Largest Accord >>> >>> The settlement is the largest ever reached in a so-called derivative >>> lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, said Jay >>> Eisenhofer<http://topics.bloomberg.com/jay-eisenhofer/>, >>> a lawyer for one of the suing shareholders, Amalgamated Bank. Eisenhofer is >>> a partner at Wilmington, Delaware-based Grant & Eisenhofer. >>> >>> “We are proud of this historic settlement, which continues the >>> 20-year-history of Amalgamated Bank encouraging corporate reform and >>> improved corporate governance,” Edward Grebow, the bank’s president, said >>> in a statement. Amalgamated Bank’s LongView Funds hold more than 455,000 >>> News Corp. shares, according to the statement. >>> >>> News Corp. agreed last year to separate slower-growing publishing assets >>> from its Fox television and film businesses after coming under pressure >>> from shareholders. Murdoch will remain chief executive officer of the Fox >>> side, News Corp. said. >>> >>> “We are pleased to have resolved this matter,” Nathaniel Brown, a News >>> Corp. spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. >>> Hacking Arrests >>> >>> Today’s settlement is part of News Corp.’s push to move past the scandal >>> over some journalists’ illegal reporting tactics and allegations that >>> company executives covered up the practices. About 80 people have been >>> arrested in connection with criminal probes, including Rebekah Brooks, the >>> head of News Corp.’s U.K. publisher. >>> >>> News Corp. journalists are accused of hacking mobile-phone messages of >>> more than 600 people, including U.S. actors Brad >>> Pitt<http://topics.bloomberg.com/brad-pitt/>and Angelina >>> Jolie <http://topics.bloomberg.com/angelina-jolie/>, soccer player Wayne >>> Rooney <http://topics.bloomberg.com/wayne-rooney/> and murdered British >>> schoolgirl Milly >>> Dowler<http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/28/world/europe/milly-dowler-profile>. >>> >>> >>> Last week, British prosecutors said the top editor of News Corp.’s Sun >>> tabloid newspaper will be charged with authorizing bribes to public >>> officials. >>> >>> Fergus Shanahan approved payments totaling 7,000 pounds ($10,600) to a >>> public official in exchange for information between 2006 and 2007, >>> according to a statement from the Crown Prosecution >>> Service<http://topics.bloomberg.com/crown-prosecution-service/>. >>> The bribes were uncovered as part of the hacking-scandal probe, prosecutors >>> said. >>> >>> British lawmakers last year concluded Murdoch wasn’t “a fit person” to >>> lead a major international company after finding News Corp. officials >>> misled Parliament about the extent of phone hacking at the News of the >>> World tabloid newspaper, which was closed in the wake of the scandal. >>> ‘Blind Eye’ >>> >>> Murdoch “turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness to what was >>> going on in his companies,” the House of Commons Culture Committee said in >>> its report. News Corp. (NWSA) >>> <http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/NWSA:US>directors countered that they >>> maintained “full confidence” in Murdoch’s >>> ability to lead the media company. >>> >>> Amalgamated Bank, based in New York<http://topics.bloomberg.com/new-york/>, >>> and a Louisiana pension fund claimed in a lawsuit that some board members >>> knew as early as 2009 that company reporters in >>> England<http://topics.bloomberg.com/england/>routinely hacked into phones >>> and bribed British police for stories. >>> >>> Still, directors refused to seriously probe claims of illegal reporting >>> tactics for fear of angering Murdoch and his children who serve as News >>> Corp. executives, lawyers for the City of New Orleans Employees Retirement >>> System and Amalgamated Bank said in court filings. >>> >>> At a hearing last year before Chancery Court Judge John Noble in Dover, >>> Delaware <http://topics.bloomberg.com/delaware/>, News Corp.’s lawyers >>> disputed investors’ claims that board members participated in a cover-up >>> because they were beholden to Murdoch and his family. >>> ‘Evidence Shows’ >>> >>> “Rather than ignoring and covering up these matters, the evidence shows >>> the board” moved to address the scandal quickly and openly, Gregory >>> Varallo, a News Corp. attorney, told Noble. The judge had been deciding >>> whether the case could proceed when it was resolved. >>> >>> News Corp. shareholders originally sued over the $675 million purchase >>> of a U.K.-based television production company owned by Murdoch’s daughter, >>> Elisabeth. They later amended their suit to focus on the phone-hacking >>> scandal. >>> >>> “When institutional investors work constructively to improve corporate >>> governance practices, good things happen,” Mark >>> Lebovitch<http://topics.bloomberg.com/mark-lebovitch/>, >>> a New York-based lawyer who represented the New Orleans pension fund, said >>> in an e-mailed statement. >>> >>> The case is In re News Corp. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, CA 6285, >>> Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington). >>> >>> To contact the reporter on this story: Jef Feeley in Wilmington, >>> Delaware at jfe...@bloomberg.net >>> To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at >>> mhy...@bloomberg.net >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
