“News Corp is close to revealing a news publication developed especially for tablet computers like Apple’s iPad, James Murdoch confirmed on Wednesday,” Georgina Prodhan reports for Reuters. “‘It’s a tablet-only product and it’s very exciting,’ Murdoch, who heads the media group’s operations in Europe and Asia, told journalists on the sidelines of an investor conference in Spain. ‘You’ll hear more about that soon.'”
Prodhan reports, “He said it was largely a U.S. product, but declined to elaborate further.” The tablet in general, it lends itself to a type of journalism that is really new,” Murdoch said, highlighting the way print looks on tablets and the multi-touch screens that encourage interaction from readers. ‘These really are becoming our flagship products, even though they’re very much in their infancy,’ he said.”
Full article here.
@ $10 a minute. Screw news Corp..up it’s shit ass.
Hopefully they leave out Fox News.
‘Screw news Corp..up it’s shit ass.’
What’s the world coming to?
I like Fox news, so I’ll be interested. But I defend the right of liberals to create their own news and information apps. Grow up and buy what you like- I’m happy to see the technology move forward.
News Corp is to news as raisins are to grapes.
newscorp is all about conservative swill and opinion, nothing factual…
Simple syllable stories aimed at dumbing down the populist readership with tabloid trash and staining reality… Look at the proposed mosque in NYC… it is actually part funded by one of the owners of NewsCorp… yet on air they deride the location as ‘sensitive’ yet fail to disclose in their story that the project is being funded by an owner of Fox…
@Rob – “nothing factual” as you refer to Newscorp.
As is typical of progressives, you then proceed to spout the Marxist/Liberal line WITHOUT A SHRED OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE (ie nothing factual)…
Cite your evidence of the proposed mosque being “in part funded by one of the owners of NewsCorp”. Which owner? How much funding? What is the source of your enlightened post?
And why, pray tell, do you put “sensitive” in quotes?
Is not the location of the murder of 3000 people juuuust a little “sensitive”?
Where is your vaunted liberal sense of sensitivity. Your liberal ability to appreciate feelings? Your enhanced ability to appreciate the nuance of why the little people might just feel that the location of islamic terrorist murder of 3000 innocent men, women and children might be considered special?
@KB
I respect your comment. You belong at John Stewart’s Sanity rally.
Not for me.
@Zul Zorander(1): How typical of a tea partier to ignore the obvious truth right in front of their face. The second largest shareholder in News Corp., the parent of Fox News, with a 7% stake in the company is Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
@Zul Zorander(2): Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by Alwaleed’s uncle King Abdullah, is, of course, an authoritarian petro-monarchy that actually is governed by Sharia law and is known as one of the top global sponsors of terrorism and was the birthplace of Osama bin Laden and was home to the 9/11 highjackers.
@Zul Zorander(3): Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s charity is the Kingdom Foundation, which according to the News Corp. owned, and reliably conservative New York Post has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the driving force behind the Cordoba House (aka Ground Zero Mosque) Iman Rauf.
@Zul Zorander(4):And for good measure
” rel=”nofollow”>here is a picture of the Prince shaking hands with News Corp./Fox’s main shareholder Rupert Murdoch.
BTW my response was broken up because MDN allows only two links per message. And Zul demanded his supporting evidence, though he’ll probably deny any of it is true since Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity lied to him and told him otherwise.
Great, just what the world needs. Another grubby little Murdoch rag.
George Soros…
And I bet the majority here are all saying, if not contributing, to the whining about how MDN has become too political every time Obama or the democrats are bashed.
Guess it’s true that lobs are fine with Free Speech as long as it’s the right speech!
There’s a lot of things that are about to happen. That doesn’t mean they’re news. This isn’t news until it happens. Then I won’t be getting any faux news distortions.
I love Fox News too and I can’t wait to get this on my iPad and iPhone!!!
@ Tommy Boy – nice
@ Two Words – WTF:
Al Gore!
John Edwards!
Adolf Hitler!
Marx! Lenin! Ghandi! Oh my…
In a open world, news should be able to be given out by the liberal and conservative media. Although, facts should be the most important matter.
If we should go by Obama’s nations statement that no country should have an advantage over another. Then media should be the same.
Oddly, Obama has no tried that with the parties. Maybe it is only an ideal or political word play to sound grand on stage. However, it should have use in life even in limited scale.
Imagine if there was no political parties…. Ummmm, Beatles any one.
… thinks people are against News Corp because THEY are biased Progressives. And that may partly be true. But even biased Progressives don’t support their own side financially, and without so much as a nod toward “the opposition” while claiming to be “Fair and Balanced”. Olbermann makes no bones about his biases, gives much more modestly, and is both more Fair and more Balanced than all of News Corp’s tripe put together. Care to fact check the two?
On Topic: there is nothing Mac related AND On Topic for this blatantly political seedling. The entire thread is a troll.
… thinks people are against News Corp because THEY are biased Progressives. And that may partly be true. But even biased Progressives don’t support their own side financially, and without so much as a nod toward “the opposition” while claiming to be “Fair and Balanced”. Olbermann makes no bones about his biases, gives much more modestly, and is both more Fair and more Balanced than all of News Corp’s tripe put together. Care to fact check the two?
On Topic: there is nothing Mac related AND On Topic for this blatantly political seedling. The entire thread is a troll.