https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-chief-says-layoffs-done-to-avert-financial-derailment/2015/11/04/83fae59a-8314-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html
Current Ceo Knell says he ordered the cuts prior to Murdock taking over. The Post doesn't address whether Knell's pension will be cut. Of course it won't, until Murdoch tires of him.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Murdoch is trying to spin this, by claiming only 4 people are being canned from the magazine; as if canning folks from a still financially successful entity who work for their tv channel is ok; or freezing pensions is fine...
earlier W. Post articlehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-society-sets-biggest-layoff-in-its-history/2015/11/03/2966e1b4-8252-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html
The reduction, the largest in the organization’s 127-year history, appears to affect almost every department of the nonprofit organization, including the magazine, which the society has published since just after its founding in 1888. The reduction also will affect people who work for the National Geographic Channel, the most profitable part of the organization. Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
Sad about this. It's the one magazine I still had a subscription to. I cancelled that yesterday, which was the first I'd heard of Murdoch taking over.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
can someone count up the times new management of a major publication promised to not fire/mess with editorial and actually held to those promises
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 November 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
King James Bible
― systems drinking (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 November 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
What In The Living Fuck?
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
Murdoch's life is like the grossest Woody Allen movie
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
So, Jerry, what first attracted you to multi-billionaire, Rupert Murdoch?... and so on.
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 4 March 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
For those who've always wondered how he sleeps at night, finally the answer they've been hoping for.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/13/rupert-murdoch-hurt-by-closeness-of-wendi-deng-and-tony-blair-editor-reveals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Funny that he's left twitter, I wonder what the motivation was in the first place
― badg, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
“It seemed to me at the time that, in the post-phone-hacking media world, Rupert’s marriage breakdown was treated vindictively and that a man well in to his 80s losing a wife with whom he had fathered two children was given no room to grieve for his loss.”*Lilliputian Pagnini holds the world's tiniest Stradivarius aloft*
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
the lack of self-awareness is genuinely remarkable
― I cry, and watch my DivX's of Brass Eye to console myself.... (stevie), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
the rich have no need for self-awareness
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
i live for the day this morally bankrupt fuckfaced sack of shit dies, in chronic and untreatable and excruciating pain
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
the ONLY reason i wouldn't piss on his grave is that it would not be fair to subject my bodily waste to this revolting bigoted fuck
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
goddammit i was hoping this was a ‘he’s dead lol’ revive
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
technically he has been dead for decades
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
i assumed losing 150 mil to theranos was no big whoop but acc to bad blood it’s by far his biggest investment loss ever so that’s something
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Hopefully that will take a few years off his life.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
good
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
also i like to think the scuppered bskyb acquisition made him cry and gave him syphilis
Murdoch seems like the Mr. Potter character in It's a Wonderful Life, but instead of just spinning his evil web over Bedford Falls, MA, he fucks up whole nations.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 June 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Haven't read this thread but I didn't know he was nearly done.
6 December 1990: the day Rupert Murdoch almost went out of business. If the Pittsburgh National Bank had only stood firm and refused him that ten million dollars!— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) April 20, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link