Sunday, May 23, 2010

Bogey-Man (also spelled boogyman, bogyman, boogieman, boogey monster) Unleashed

Bogey-Man is a legendary ghost-like monster. The Bogey-Man has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is just an amorphous embodiment of terror. Bogey-Man can be used metaphorically to denote a person or thing of which someone has an irrational fear. Parents often say that if their child is naughty, the Boggey-Man  will get them, in an effort to make them behave.WIKI 

In today's world we seem to demand that every situation has a Bogey-Man someplace in the plot line. Preferable a Bogey-Man with deep pockets.

Government Bogey-Men are a well known phenomenon and a evil we all understand and except. Ultimate Bogey-Man is the unnamed, undefined, contumacious, nascent, anonymous (typically refers to a person, and often means that the personal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known) opinionated news media. I would bet a dollar to a donut the first press example that you thought of was Fox News. Spin in the reporting of news has become an art that incorporates news and editorial content into one style.

Although we need an independent free press, that being said, does not say we need a press that spins each story to an editorial standard that satisfies the demands of an ultra conservative owner (notice I said owner and not owners).  Although Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG American media czar and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation (News Corp.) owns a number of media outlets and dictates the public voice of conservatives and ultra conservatives both here an abroad. His influence is unprecedented in today's media savvy world. His empire has the ability or will have to influence the daily lives of most Americans. He is known simply as the World Media Czar.
His companies (News Corp) control or at least influence what you see and hear daily. In his editorial style there is only good guys and bad guys, no in-between, Bogey man vs saviour.
When asked about President Obama ("lets see if he can walk the walk"). Much of the derision we see in our people and daily lives are directly caused by Mr Murdoch and his minions.
It will be interesting to see coming generations look at these times and ask why would the populace allow any one individual to have that much power and influence and not care.
If we don't stop fearing and start questing to find the answers for are selves then the Bogey man will be out of the closet and the free world we live in will go by the way, just like the buffalo.







This is a list of assets (Wikapedia) owned by Rupert Murdoch's, News Corporation:

Contents:

1 Film


2 Television


2.1 Broadcast/Production assets


2.2 Cable Assets


2.3 Direct broadcast satellite Assets


3 Internet


4 Magazines and Inserts


5 Newspapers and Information Services


5.1 United Kingdom


5.2 Australasia


5.3 United States


5.4 International


6 Books


7 Miscellaneous


8 See also


9 References


10 External links


Film


20th Century Fox


Twentieth Century Fox Español


Twentieth Century Fox International


Twentieth Century Fox Television


Fox Searchlight Pictures


Fox Studios Australia


Fox Studios Baja


Fox Studios Los Angeles


Fox Television Studios


Television
 Broadcast/Production assets


20th Century Fox Television


20th Television


bTV


Foxtel


Fox Broadcasting Company


Fox International Channels Italy


Fox Kids (1990-2002)


Fox Sports Australia


Fox Telecolombia


Fox Television Stations


Fox Television Studios


Imedi TV


Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija


MyNetworkTV


STAR TV


TV5 Rīga


Sky 1


sky 1 HD


sky 2


sky 3


sky sports and sky sports HD


sky movies and sky movies HD


Cable Assets


Big Ten Network (49%)


Fox Business Network


Fox College Sports


Fox Movie Channel


Fox News Channel


Fox Soccer Channel


Fox Sports Enterprises


Fox Sports en Español


Fox Sports Net


FUEL TV


FX Networks


Fox Reality


National Geographic Channel (50%)


National Geographic Channel UK (50%)


Speed Channel


SportSouth


LAPTV (Latin America — co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC Universal)


Telecine (Brazil — co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios and DreamWorks);
Direct broadcast satellite Assets


BSkyB [United Kingdom] (39.1%)


Sky Deutschland (39.96%)


SKY Italia


SKY Network Television [New Zealand] (43.65%)


Foxtel [Australia] (25%)


Star TV [India & Greater China] (100%)


Tata Sky [India] (20%)

Internet


Fox Interactive Media


AmericanIdol.com


AskMen.com


Fox.com


Foxsports.com


GameSpy


Hulu.com


kSolo


IGN


Drownedinsound.com


MySpace


MyNetworktv.com


NewRoo.com


Strategicdatacorp.com


Scout.com


SpringWidgets


WhatIfSports


Beliefnet


News Digital Media


Slingshot Labs


Authonomy via HarperCollins


Magazines and Inserts


InsideOut


donna hay


News America Marketing


SmartSource


Newspapers and Information Services

United Kingdom


News International


The Sun


News of the World


The Times


Sunday Times


thelondonpaper (a free newspaper which closed in September 2009)


Australasia


News Limited


The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)


The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)


The Australian (national)


The Weekend Australian (national)


The Advertiser (Adelaide)


Sunday Mail (Adelaide)


The Sunday Times (Perth)


Herald Sun (Melbourne)


Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)


mX (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)


The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)


The Cairns Post (Cairns, Queensland)


Geelong Advertiser


Gold Coast Bulletin


The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart)


Northern Territory News (Darwin)


The Sunday Territorian (Darwin)


Australian Associated Press (45%)


Papua


Papua New Guinea Post-Courier


Fiji


The Fiji Times

United States


New York Post


Community Newspaper Group


The Brooklyn Paper


Courier-Life Publications


TimesLedger Newspapers


Bronx Times Reporter Inc.


International


Dow Jones & Company






Consumer Media Group


The Wall Street Journal - the leading US financial newspaper.


Wall Street Journal Europe


Wall Street Journal Asia


Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.


Marketwatch - Financial news and information website.


Far Eastern Economic Review


Financial News


Enterprise Media Group


Dow Jones Newswires - global, real-time news and information provider.


Factiva - provides business news and information together with content delivery tools and services.


Dow Jones Indexes - stock market indexes and indicators, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.


Dow Jones Financial Information Services — produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialised markets and industry sectors.


Betten Financial News — leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.


Local Media Group'


Dow Jones Local Media Group (formerly Ottaway Community Newspapers) - 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.


Strategic Alliances


STOXX (33%) - joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.


Vedomosti (33%) - Russia's leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).


SmartMoney (50%)


FiLife.com (50%)


 Books


HarperCollins


HarperCollins India (40%) joint venture with India Today Group


Zondervan Publishing


Youth Specialties — organisation helping youth workers worldwide through training seminars and conventions, resources and the internet.


Inspirio — religious gift production.

Miscellaneous


National Rugby League (NRL) (50%)


Ansett Australia, Until 2000 (50%)


Curb Records


Jamba! - Mobile Entertainment/Mobile Handsets Personalisation/Games.


News Outdoor Group - Largest outdoor advertising company in Eastern Europe with over 70,000 ads including billboards and bus shelters, operating in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia (96 cities), Turkey & Ukraine.


Maximedia Israel (67%)


Mosgorreklama (50%) - Russia sign and marketing material manufacturer


Kamera Acikhava Reklamclik (?) - leading outdoor advertising company in Turkey


NDS Group (49%) - DRM and conditional access company.







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