Rupert Murdoch

Keystone XL Pipeline Opposition Gets an Unlikely Ally: Rupert Freakin' Murdoch

Is Keystone Pipeline really good idea?Bringing lots of heavy, dirty oil across country, when fracked ,cheaper, cleaner energy available— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) February 15, 2013 Yeah, you read that right. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, wh ... More >>

We Few, We Miserable Few: Jim Rallies the Troops With Words Fit for Henry V

Sometimes I think the dumbest people to talk to about the newspaper business are newspaper people, of which I am one, obviously. Is it possible to scream blindness? David Carr, The New York Times's media columnist -- one of the few media reporters on whose word I truly hang, often -- has a piece in ... More >>

Kids, Trust No One. My Work Is Done Here.

​Oh, wouldn't you know I'd wind up agreeing with my opponent? You know what's wrong with me? I am just too damn much of a sweetheart, that's my problem. Too nice, too smart, too good-lookin'. I've got to drop at least one just to make things fair. So this morning I met on the field of battle ... More >>

Let's Watch Domingo Garcia, Redistricting Commission Discuss the Future of Dallas

Redistricting Commissioners Elizabeth Jones and Domingo Garcia, who have tough and thankless jobs for which they aren't paid a penny, are displeased with me at the moment for nay-saying their incomplete maps. Garcia chided me in the comments, writing that it appears I've graduated from " ... More >>

Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense of Its Own Virtue

​Quite a bit of chest-puffing harrumphing holier-than-thou going on over at The Dallas Morning News editorial page today, with a self-congratulatory ditty about that dirty Rupert Murdoch, about those nasty dirty Brit tabloids and about how happy the News is with itself for being ... well ... y ... More >>

Small-Town Muckraker Joey Dauben Will Run the World Some Day. Just Ask Him.

In the little towns outside of Dallas, publisher and aspiring politician Joey Dauben is on a crusade to expose abuses of power, civic mischief and -- most of all -- himself.

One Day Before Texas Rangers Go to Auction, A Familiar-Sounding Song From Liverpool

Keep in mind -- this man could wind up owning Your Texas Rangers. Not a sure thing, sure, but not impossible.​Spent the last hour trying to summon the strength to write this, if only because at this late date the thought of spending one more second on Tom Hicks's attempts to sell his sports teams ... More >>

Texas Rangers Auction Showdown: Mark Cuban vs. Nolan Ryan

Chuck Greenberg: Chief Stalking Horse​In advance of tomorrow's bankruptcy auction in Judge Michael Lynn's Fort Worth court room, initial bids must be in by 8 tonight. Up for sale: The Texas Rangers. Prospective buyers: Chuck Greenberg/Nolan Ryan and Mark Cuban. While Dallas businessman J ... More >>

News & Notes With Tom Hicks, Mark Cuban, Luke Wilson and The Wyly Bros' Broker

Kit NelsonOne of Liverpool FC supporters' myriad posters advertising their disgust with Tom Hicks's asking price for the club​Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting ...Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, ... More >>

Michael Manos Was Living the Same Lie in Dallas That He Peddled Across the Country. Only Here, the Truth Caught Up with Him.

Avatar: All That Glitters Isn't Gold

Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

Wanna Be MySpace Music's CEO?

Rupert Murdoch's toy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Fox News Akin To Southern Rap

Anti-intellectual appeal and red-state focus are just the tip of what these two have in common.

Yeah, But Would Charles Darwin Sell The Dallas Morning News?

Dallas' One-Man Newspaper Dynasty

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Christopher Bancroft Sounds Like a Rather Decent Human Being

Crain: The Candidate of Pocket Change

Who Hoak?

Cruella de Vogue

The Devil Wears Prada slaps the latest duds on an infamous fashion editor

The Truthiness Is, He's Scary

The Hammer and the Nailing

On-Screen Stumping

More Bushwhacking

Plus: Attack and Counterattack; Who Ya Callin’ Geek?

Tin Giant

Let Belo buy every station in the country--makes my job easier

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Revolting

The New Guy offers the same ol' thing: dopey crap for kids

Net Loss

The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

Hope and Glory

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has reason to shout-his money and enthusiasm are resurrecting a dead team

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

Pull the strings

The power of puppetry propels the brilliant Being John Malkovich

Changing channels

When the Mavericks made a deal with the USA Network, Tom Hicks' regional sports channel became less regional

Belo the belt

When Belo got into the cable news business, it set off a war with Time Warner that has both companies fighting over Texas

Happy birthday, Bertolt

Theatre Three and Kitchen Dog celebrate Brecht's100-year anniversarywith mixed results

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

Out of time

Narcissism drives Warren Beatty into the 'hood

Stealing home

Tom Hicks bought a baseball team, but he'll own an empire

007 by the numbers

Most of Tomorrow Never Dies lacks the wit and inventiveness of the best Bond

Events for the week

Animal crackers

Creatures swallows Wanda whole and chokes on the laughter

The mouse that roared

How telecommunications deregulation will help Disney--and other media giants--rule the world

Redefining reform

Big business proponents contrive some of the worst bills of the 74th session

Golden years

Gingrich and Wright have more in common than meets the eye