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Did Rupert Murdoch Flat Foot His Own New York Post? 50 Minutes After Resignation, No Story on Website (updated)

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Did Rupert Murdoch Flat Foot His Own New York Post? 50 Minutes After Resignation, No Story on Website (updated)

UPDATE At 10am, an hour after the announcement, the Post has placed a small item on its website’s front page, below the big main Biden story. A little insulting!

EARLIER Rupert Murdoch really left his own NY Post dangling in the dark.

Fully fifty minutes after the announcement he was resigning as chairman of News Corp and Fox News, the Post still doesn’t have a story up on their website.

Their lead story is about Biden fumbling at something, and there’s no other story on the site.

Is the Post in denial? Or were they just caught unaware?

I feel bad for the Post people. They’re probably already wondering what this all means for them anyway.

Lachlan Murdoch said in a statement about his father:

“On behalf of the Fox and News Corp boards of directors, leadership teams, and all the shareholders who have benefited from his hard work, I congratulate my father on his remarkable 70-year career. We thank him for his vision, his pioneering spirit, his steadfast determination, and the enduring legacy he leaves to the companies he founded and countless people he has impacted. We are grateful that he will serve as Chairman Emeritus and know he will continue to provide valued counsel to both companies.”

Keep refreshing….

Murdoch Fox News, News Corp Resignation Comes After $787 Million Lawsuit, And Another Pending for $2.7 Billion

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Murdoch Fox News, News Corp Resignation Comes After $787 Million Lawsuit, And Another Pending for $2.7 Billion

Rupert Murdoch is leaving his role as head of News Corp and Fox News just as the company is suffering staggering legal blows.

Already this year Dominion Voting has won $787 million from Murdoch in a libel case about voter fraud. The jury decision is devastating even if insurance pays part of it.

Fox News and News Corp still face a second and bigger libel suit from Smartmatic, another voting machine company alleging libel in the 2020 election.

Lies are told on Fox News on a daily basis. At the New York Post, the printed lies and insults can’t be taken back. For example, several years ago the Post printed pictures on their front page of the men they said were the bombers at the Boston Marathon. They were completely wrong.

During Rupert’s recent years, Fox News has also had to make payouts to many women who claimed sexual harassment. The network has also let go of two of its biggest stars, Bill O’Reilly and Tucker Carlson, for respectively sexual misconduct and dangerous lunacy.

How will a post-Murdoch world deal with Smartmatic and other pressures? Will the Post — which loses millions every year and has no pay wall — survive? Everything changes now as Lachlan Murdoch becomes a relatively young press baron.

Succession! Rupert Murdoch Steps Down as Head of News Corp, Turns Company Over to Kendall, er, Lachlan

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Succession! Rupert Murdoch Steps Down as Head of News Corp, Turns Company Over to Kendall, er, Lachlan

Rupert Murdoch is done.

Just like Logan Roy on “Succession,” Murdoch has finished his run as head of global news media conglomerate he started. Only Rupert didn’t wait to keel over. He has resigned as of next month.

Murdoch is turning News Corp, Fox News and all of it over to his own “Kendall,” son Lachlan. Rupert will likely a Chairman Emeritus, saying he’ll advise his son. But the 92 year old will no longer shape the daily opinions of millions of readers.

Murdoch gave the surprise story to CNBC, which broke it at 9am. As of 9:23am, the New York Post– which he owns — didn’t have it on their website. Fox News. which he also owns, played the story as Murdoch transitioning to Chairman Emeritus, not resigning or stepping down. But that’s what he’s doing,

What will this mean for Donald Trump? Murdoch fluctuates in his support of Trump, not knowing what to as the four time indicted ex president continually complains about him, then panders to him. Will Lachlan Murdoch find his own GOP candidate?

And what does this mean for the New York Post? Rupert Murdoch’s pet newspaper has staggering losses every year. Will Lachlan shut down the print part of the paper? Or sell the whole thing? And is there anyone to buy it? Stay tuned…

UPDATE: Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner Book Drops Below 3,500 on Amazon, All Promotional Events Cancelled in Light of Controversy Over Comments

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UPDATE: Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner Book Drops Below 3,500 on Amazon, All Promotional Events Cancelled in Light of Controversy Over Comments

Jann Wenner has cancelled all promotional events for his new book, “The Masters.”

A notice went out from the 92nd St. Y this evening cancelled Wenner’s planned Q&A with Cameron Crowe set for October 18th. Crowe made his career at Rolling Stone in the 1970s — see the movie “Almost Famous.”

It’s a stunning turn of events for Wenner, whose entire legacy has been destroyed in one week by his comments in the New York Times last week. He said that female and Black performers were too inarticulate to be interviewed and he wasn’t interested in them anyway.

In pre sales on amazon, “The Masters” has dropped to number 3,595.

Studio Chiefs and Writers Guild Met Today, Will Continue Tomorrow as Deadline Looms for 2023-24 TV Season

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Studio Chiefs and Writers Guild Met Today, Will Continue Tomorrow as Deadline Looms for 2023-24 TV Season

All the studio chiefs met today with the Writers Guild and will continue negotiating tomorrow, according to a WGA post.

The sudden seriousness of the studios is welcomed as the deadline looms for the 2023-24 TV season. If the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes aren’t resolved by early October, my sources say it will be impossible to put on a season.

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Disney’s Bob Iger, Universal’s Donna Langley and Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav were present today for the negotiations, a sure sign that the studios are finally in panic mode. There are no daytime or nighttime talk shows, no new material on TV, and actors can’t promote the fall and winter movies. The actors have already missed the Telluride, Venice, and Toronto Film Festivals. Now the New York Film Festival looms, as does the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Watch for the studios to give in with a carefully worded announcement that saves face but gives the WGA important concessions.

COVID is Back! Jimmy Kimmel, Steve Martin, Martin Short Cancel Las Vegas Appearances: Only Illness in the Building!

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COVID is Back! Jimmy Kimmel, Steve Martin, Martin Short Cancel Las Vegas Appearances: Only Illness in the Building!

COVID is back big time. baby!

Steve Martin and Martin Short have cancelled their sold out shows in Las Vegas this weekend.

Martin writes: “Dear fans and enemies, Unfortunately, our sold-out shows at the Wynn in Las Vegas this Friday and Saturday has to be postponed because of rampant Covid in our crew and one other essential guy. We are sorry for any inconvenience, but we are moving to mid-December, where your tickets will be honored with an added “date-moving tax,” of nine thousand dollars.”

Jimmy Kimmel and late night colleagues Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert were supposed to raise money for their crews at a Vegas Strike Force show. But no. Kimmel Tweeted: “Well, Las Vegas, I got Covid, and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend’s Strike Force Three show. I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick. Thanks to all who purchased tickets, everyone will get full refunds and we will try to reschedule if possible.”

This is why yours truly got the new vaccine on Monday. Don’t listen to Robert Kennedy Jr. and Eric Clapton, who are now Nuts-in-Arms. Get the vaccine! If famous people can get it again we are all at risk!

PS The US govt will start giving out free COVID tests next week again– they know something is happening!

PPS Sorry for Martin and Short, but you can watch the new episode of “Only Murders in the Building” now on Hulu. Meryl Streep has some big plot twists!

Mel Gibson Mini Series Gets Rotten Reviews, But Peacock Hand Delivered Swag All Over Town Today

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Mel Gibson Mini Series Gets Rotten Reviews, But Peacock Hand Delivered Swag All Over Town Today
Peacock hand delivered this crate of goodies all over New York and LA today to television writers, press junketeers, and so on. (Not me. I’m not in that group!)

The crate — which looks pretty expensive — is to promote the Peacock Mel Gibson John Wick miniseries coming this weekend called “The Continental.”

So far, reviews are pretty bad, with only a 47% of 37 critics liking it. (I’ll try and watch it when it hits Peacock.) Indiewire wrote: “The Continental” soon crumbles under its impossible burdens. The action is plentiful, yet can’t compare, the storytelling is careless, beyond repair, and the realization of vaunted myths, well, buyer beware.”

The fact that Mel Gibson, antisemite and racist, is in it should be enough to turn elsewhere for entertainment. They say it’s a limited series, and that’s apparently true.

But Peacock must have felt they would get some PR from the recipients of the bourbon, whiskey, bitters, and a glass decanter. And here it is.

Elon Musk Says First Human Patient Will Soon Get Brain Implant: “Imagine if Stephen Hawking Had This”

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Elon Musk Says First Human Patient Will Soon Get Brain Implant: “Imagine if Stephen Hawking Had This”

Elon Musk says Neuralink is coming right away. In a post on his Twitter X account, Musk says:

“The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device. This ultimately has the potential to restore full body movement.
In the long term, Neuralink hopes to play a role in AI risk civilizational risk reduction by improving human to AI (and human to human) bandwidth by several orders of magnitude.
Imagine if Stephen Hawking had had this.”

A breakthrough or the beginning of a horror movie? We’re about to find out how chips and artificial intelligence will change our lives.

Earlier Neuralink posted: “We’re excited to announce that recruitment is open for our first-in-human clinical trial! If you have quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), you may qualify. Learn more about our trial by visiting our recent blog post.”

Instant Karma: Sherri Shepherd Stops Live Talk Show Because She Got COVID, Not Because of WGA Strike

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Instant Karma: Sherri Shepherd Stops Live Talk Show Because She Got COVID, Not Because of WGA Strike

This is Instant Karma.

Sherri Shepherd went ahead with her live talk even though there’s a writer’s strike. Now she’s been paid back by the universe.

Shepherd says she has tested positive for COVID and so her live show is cancelled for the rest of the week. If she’s smart, she’ll say it’s long COVID and wait until the strike is over.

Sherri’s show has been going on because she says she has no WGA writers, and just makes it up as she goes along. But the guild isn’t happy and it’s bad look for her.

Here’s hoping she gets well fast, and changes her mind about the show until the strike is over.

Jann Wenner’s New Book, “The Masters,” Drops in Pre-Sales Run on Amazon Almost off the Top 2,000 After Scandal Erupts

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Jann Wenner’s New Book, “The Masters,” Drops in Pre-Sales Run on Amazon Almost off the Top 2,000 After Scandal Erupts

Jann Wenner’s book, “The Masters,” is set to be published next week.

But signs are bad for sales as “The Masters” has fallen on the Amazon book charts from around number 1,400 to number 1,972. It’s headed in the wrong direction, nearly off the top 2,000.

The drop in pre-sales and in standing on Amazon is directly attributable to the disaster Wenner himself caused beginning last week with an interview in the New York Times.

Wenner said that the interviews in the book — with Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Mick Jagger, John Lennon and other old white male rockers — didn’t include Black and female musicains because they were inarticulate. He immediately crossed out artists like Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder, saying maybe if Marvin Gaye was alive he’d be a possibility.

Reaction was swift and fierce. The founder of Rolling Stone magazine was disowned by them even though the current editor is his son, Gus Wenner. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dismissed him from its Board of Directors.

Wenner’s legacy has now been ruined by promotion for a book that will probably not sell at all when it’s finally published next Tuesday.

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