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To the federal government, engineer James E. Beavers and his wife are garden-variety tax cheats.
To the Beavers, they are "divine beneficiaries" of Saint Peter far beyond the control of the government and its courts.
James Beavers and his wife, Beverly Beavers, are standing trial in U.S. District Court on charges they plotted to file false tax returns to garner $1 million in refunds.
Federal prosecutors say they tricked the IRS out of nearly $600,000 before the agency wised up to the scheme.
The Beavers are representing themselves and using a defense strategy common among those who claim to be "sovereign citizens" out of the government's reach. But unlike many who try to shield assets with trusts and use the sovereign defense, the Beavers are, as a Justice Department attorney noted Monday, "highly educated."
James Beavers is a Vanderbilt University graduate with a doctoral degree in engineering. He taught at the University of Tennessee and is a well-regarded consultant in engineering. His wife ran her own dress boutique.
Federal prosecutors say the couple in 2008 turned to an Idaho tax preparer with a clientele of tax skaters in a scheme to glean money not owed them to pay off their debts.
IRS Agent Shawna Henline testified Monday tax preparer Penny Jones crafted fake forms showing the Beavers had paid nearly $1 million in withholding taxes on investments that were actually debts the couple owed.
In 2008, the scheme netted the Beavers a refund of nearly $600,000, Hemline said. Even though the fake documents should have set off alarms with the IRS, they didn't, she said. In fact, the documents weren't even reviewed by the agency before the refund was issued, she said.
"We have 45 days from April 15 before we have to start paying interest (on refunds owed) so we have incentive to act as quickly as possible," Hemline explained. "The people who are processing those returns ... are entry-level employees."
Hemline said the IRS processed 147 million individual returns last year.
The Beavers refused Monday to make opening statements or question witnesses. They told U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan "we are living beneficiaries and we cannot speak to the court."
The trial continues today.
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You mean ask him to not take a contract job at Universal? Because that's the only reason he couldn't use his real name in any third season Trek episode, or put any significant time into Trek scripts.
Ah, I didn't know about that contract conflict. I had just figured "Lee Cronin" was Coon's version of Harlan Ellison's "Cordwainer Bird."
That being the case, though, maybe it was his not being able to "put any significant time into Trek scripts" that accounts for "Spock's Brain."
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My 2008 Dodge Avenger blows cold air when the heater is on, does this car have a climate control module or what could be causing this problem?
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The first thing to check is your coolant level. If it is low then it will cause this problem. Check it and let me know.
I have checked the coolant level and it is fine. The hoses also get hot, but the heater blows cold within 2 - 3 minutes after you turn on the blower. If you turn the blower off for a couple of minutes it will be warm air again for just 2 - 3 mins.
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Did you check the coolant level in the radiator and the reservoir? I would check both and add some if it will take any.
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This Forkster had no clue there were three extra days to submit taxes--a fast-food chain had to inform me. Either way, I'm staying clear of the post office and headed straight to my local Arby's to get me a free order of fries. Not just your run-of-the-mill julienne cut, either. We're talking Felicity (pre- and post-haircut) curly.
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New York - When a New York woman went into labour, she left home to hail a cab for the hospital. But seconds later, she gave birth on a wintry Manhattan sidewalk.
Starting out as a true New Yorker in a hurry, the baby girl was in such a rush to enter the world that she couldn't wait for her mother Polly McCourt to get to the hospital on Monday afternoon.
Also in New York style, it happened in front of a TV crew from Fox 5, who were en route to another story when they spotted the woman on Third Avenue and East 68th Street.
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Distrust towards government programs runs high among Asian startups. Whether for incompetence, corruption, or mere disinterest, local governments, with the exception of Singapore, rarely answer the call for supporting startups in a meaningful way.
The Japanese government's treatment towards startups falls in line with these stereotypes. Partly due to a period of political instability that saw the nation's Prime Minister change seven times in seven years, the pro-business policies one might expect from a wealthy and tech-savvy nation have lagged. Under Shinzo Abe, the current Prime Minister and an outspoken advocate for tech companies in Japan, the government has still struggled to keep up with the expectations of the tech community. Even close allies like Rakuten (TYO:4755), the country's leading ecommerce conglomerate, have sued the government in an attempt to ease outdated regulations.
Then there's Yoshiaki Ishii. Ever since getting his start at the government's Small and Middle Enterprise Agency back in 1992, Ishii has shaped his career almost exclusively around supporting young companies of every ilk. Now, he is the director of the New Business Policy Office in the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and responsible for determining how to execute the government's newly adopted mission of supporting local startups.
Ishii might not be a household name, but his impact on Japan's startups has been pronounced. Besides personally selecting venture capital funds to invest government resources in, he was also the project leader for the ambitious revision of Japan's Company Law back in 2006. Ishii pushed for – and succeeded in – making registration of godo gaisha (essentially a LLC) and yūgen sekinin jigyō kumiai (the same structure as a LLP) possible. The change simplified the bureaucratic process of company registration and cheapened it considerably. Neither require more than two yen (US$0.02) of capital whereas the cheapest option previously had required three million yen (about US$30,000) of capital.
Filing for an incorporated company was even worse. At that time, entrepreneurs needed 10 million yen (approximately US$100,000) in capital in order to register. Now, a single yen (roughly $US0.01) will suffice.
The impact of the legal reform was immediate. The following year business registrations jumped from 80,000 to 101,000. In the years since, annual registrations have averaged 91,000.
Leaving the old days behind
In his new role, Ishii is pushing for further legal reforms to spur on startups. One of his goals is to increase the number of angel investors in Japan, by making invested money deductible from income tax by up to 40 percent. Another project is to strengthen ties between the government and startups, by eliminating the barriers that prevent the government from entering into procurement contracts with startups. This approach has the twin benefits of creating a larger pool of money to fund startups, along with a larger customer base.
If successful, Ishii will solve a major issue facing startups now. "They do not have patient investment money right now," he says. Investors do not want to part with their carefully earned and collected cash unless they feel confident that they can get a positive return. The tax breaks reduce their real expenditure. The potential for government contracts means startups have more revenue opportunities to grow and develop. Overall, these reforms should help investors find some patience while reducing their risk exposure.
Ishii acknowledges that the Japanese government's bureaucratic ways prevent the administration from making decisions and actions as quickly as its counterparts in Singapore. Before he can strike forward with a new policy, Ishii will have to get buy-in from his superiors at METI, as well as the leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Prime Minister's Cabinet Secretariat, and, of course, Prime Minister Abe himself.
The circuitous law-making process is a quiet reminder that Ishii's influence is still limited by political realities. For instance, he has not yet executed the plan for helping angel investors due to the larger push for lowering the nation's corporate tax rate.
Turning a vision into reality
Investors are a major preoccupation for Ishii. When asked what he wants to accomplish that no one else has achieved yet, Ishii spoke of targeting investors. Ishii feels that part of the startup boom in America can be traced to the country's long tradition of venture capital investment. He hopes to create policies that will allow a similar culture to take root in Japan. "I want to create a system that is stable and can ensure continuous impact," he says.
Ishii's abstracted analysis should not be taken as mere bureaucratic pontificating. He regularly advises and assists two new organizations critical to his fulfilling his mission. Ishii does not directly control them, but he did facilitate the creation of both and continues to work closely with their teams.
The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private investment fund established in 2009. It is designed to operate for 15 years and is worth a staggering US$3 billion. Its remit is not limited to technology firms but it has given cash to Sansan, Gen Isayama's technology focused WiL fund, and Coiney within the past 12 months. As INCJ finds start ups, the Japan Innovation Network (JIN) works to build the rest of the ecosystem. JIN functions very similarly to Tohmatsu Venture Support, in that it assists large companies trying to jump start internal innovation projects and also introduces those companies to the startups that operate in the field of interest.
With the backing of the Abe administration, Ishii is at in an exciting phase of his career. Abe has not been shy about expresing his belief that a stronger startup ecosystem is vital for Japan's future. When his administration released an updated growth strategy report this past June, it made a clear show of support for Japanese startups. The report states that the government wants to keep the business startup rate higher than the business closure rate. This goal shouldn't attract controversy in any country, but Abe added a twist. Although Japan's business creation rate currently exceeds the business closure rate by five percent, he wants to raise that to 10 percent so it would be in line with American and British rates.
In Ishii's opinion, that rate is reachable. He noted that the money required to generally get a company off the ground has decreased in recent years. "It is now possible to do a lean startup. If you were starting an IT company in the 1990s, you needed to invest a lot in facilities. Now, you just need a cloud server and you can get that with just a little bit of money," he says.
More than a bureaucrat
Ishii appears to be a man with many weapons at his disposal. 20 years of experience and connections as a public servant, a giant fund, and closely aligned consulting arm. Even so, entrepreneurs young and old will continue to doubt the government's ability to support startups.
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Re: Cause and Effect
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Any depressurization could move the Enterprise. It weighs NOTHING in space.
It still has mass, mass that must be moved. In order to move a
amount of mass is needed, or something that expel a greater amount of mass or force. And a room full of air just isn't, I believe, going to have enough mass or force to move the ship. The
is still a 5 million ton hunk of mass and it's going to take that much mass (or a small amount of mass with a large amount of acceleration) to move it.
It might "weigh nothing" in space but that doesn't mean that Data could have gotten out of the ship and simply pushed it out of the way, he'd still need to push it with enough force to overcome the
's mass.
So I pulled out the blueprints and took measurements of the
main shuttle bay.
I ignored the elliptical shape of the room and well as the approach area made by the door vestibule. So I simply measured the widest points of the length and width of the room. Again ignoring that the inside of the room has outcroppings and structural obstructions.
At the wides point the shuttlebay on it's lowest deck (where the door is, not counting the "hangar" below the shuttlebay) is 17cm by 11cm which in the scale of the blueprints is 425 feet by 275 feet. The shuttlebay is two decks high, while the upper area is likely slightly smaller we'll ignore that.
I'm going to assume a standard "deck height" of 10 feet (the ship's height by it's number of decks mostly supports this) so that'd
given everything I've fudged
each level of the shuttlebay is 425ft x 275ft x 10ft. Or 1.17 million cubic feet. Times two for 2.34 million cubic feet of space inside the main shuttlebay. And, again, that's likely on the high-end given the number fudging I've done.
So 2.34 million cubic feet of space times 75 pounds of air per cubic foot gets us to 175 million pounds of air, or 87,750 tons of air. So we would need about
shuttlebays worth of air in that space to have enough force to just to overcome the mass of the ship and
nudge it out of the way.
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Although the abbreviated awards season reduced the number of moviegoing weekends between the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, "Mystic River," Clint Eastwood's story of three friends and the legacy of childhood trauma, is one of a handful of movies that has been boosted at the box office thanks to awards attention.
The movie, which opened the New York Film Festival on Oct. 3, had taken in $55 million in the U.S. and Canada before the Jan. 27 Oscar nominations announcement. The figure is now up to $82 million, and will rise a little higher with Sean Penn's win for best actor.
Warner Bros. kept the film in theaters through the holidays, despite dwindling business — concentrating on major cities. It then increased the number of theaters from 137 to 1,527 on Jan. 23 to take advantage of that weekend's Golden Globes (at which the film's Tim Robbins won the best supporting actor award) and potential Oscar nods the following Tuesday.
" 'Mystic River' benefited the most of any of the best-picture nominees," Dan Fellman, president of theatrical distribution for Warner Bros., said of the movie, which drew nods for best picture, adapted screenplay and multiple acting honors. The film took in "about $27 million for just the academy run, which added nearly 50% to the gross," Fellman said. "Year-end lists and the awards season have created buzz — as well as a mainstream audience. We expect to take in an additional $6 million to $10 million before we're done."
Still, marketing experts note, no film has recorded the dramatic gains of 2002's "Chicago," which, after receiving 13 nominations, boosted its gross from $50.6 million to $134 million — adding $10 million more after its best picture win.
"Lost in Translation," Sofia Coppola's tale of two disenchanted Americans who cross paths in Tokyo, also experienced a solid, if less substantial, leap. Playing on 342 screens in late January, it expanded to 633 locations after receiving Oscar nominations for best picture, director, actor and original screenplay (for which it won on Sunday) and winning Golden Globes for best picture/comedy, best actor/comedy and best screenplay. The gross, slightly under $35 million before the Oscar nods, has since risen to almost $44 million — particularly welcome in light of a Feb. 3 home video release that exhibitors had feared would dilute their share of the audience.
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Three other best picture nominees, already in wide release, saw relatively fewer benefits. Although Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" dominated the awards season run-up to the Oscars, it added only $23 million to its whopping $338.3-million gross — not bad, but a less dramatic share of the film's total. Fewer theaters (1,400, down from a high of 3,700 in December) and new movies in the marketplace have taken their toll, notes Rolf Mittweg, president and chief operating officer of worldwide distribution and marketing for New Line Cinema. Still, when it comes to box office performance, the movie is 10% ahead of the previous installment of the trilogy — and the number of theaters should rise to between 2,100 and 2,500 by this weekend in anticipation of Oscar results. To bring in those who haven't seen the first two, the firm will place brief synopses of the preceding films in its ads.
"It's usually smaller films like '[The] English Patient' and 'American Beauty' that benefit most from awards," Mittweg said. "Expectations for blockbusters are limited. And when a movie grosses $400 million domestically — and over a billion dollars worldwide — it's hardly a disappointment. We're the No. 2 movie of all time [after 'Titanic'] and we're not done yet. If we win, it could add an additional $20 million to $25 million — and the overseas runs are just beginning."Peter Weir's "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," in which a British warship goes head-to-head with a French privateer during the Napoleonic Wars, had also exhausted most of its box-office potential. Since its nominations for best picture and director, the film has added only $6 million to its $85-million gross. Now in 382 locations, the film would have been out of theaters in mid-January without the prospect of awards, conceded Bruce Snyder, 20th Century Fox's president of domestic distribution.
Gary Ross' "Seabiscuit" — a July 25 release — has also recorded minimal gains. The story of the legendary Depression-era race horse took in only $46,300 at the 54 screens Universal Pictures added after the nominations were announced, but the recognition probably increased its robust home video revenues.
"Like 'Seabiscuit,' our film wasn't a little gem being discovered," Snyder said. " 'Lost in Translation' and 'Mystic River,' in contrast, got exposure they didn't have before. If we win, that's another story — one worth $15 million, perhaps."
For documentaries, nominations are even more important, said Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Picture Classics. Best documentary feature winner "The Fog of War," Errol Morris' movie about former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, was booked on 200 screens during Oscar weekend, up from 55 the week before. The win could boost its total revenues to $10 million, Barker says.
The Oscar nomination for best animated feature will probably increase the projected $3 million take for "The Triplets of Belleville" to $5 million [it's currently at $4.5 million]. "Finding Nemo," which won the award, was out of theaters and already available on home video.
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CNN's Howard Kurtz admonished officials at Sky News, a News Corp.-owned British news channel, for "saying they reserve the right to break the law" after it emerged that officials there acknowledged hacking into private emails.
Officials at the News Corp. channel confirmed this week that on at least two occasions, reporters illegally hacked into private email accounts.
Sky News head John Ryley made clear that the hacking was authorized and said that they "stand behind these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest." Kurtz on Sunday called that justification "bloody rubbish."
In an April 6 Huffington Post column, Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt explained how the latest development in the News Corp. hacking scandal further validates concerns that the company suffers from a culture of corruption:
The Sky case is particularly interesting because for the first time, the company has admitted that hacking was not only approved of, but in fact officially sanctioned by the management of the channel. John John Ryley, the head of Sky News, told reporters, "We stand by these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest." Ryley continued: "Material provided by Sky News was used in the successful prosecution, and the police made clear after the trial that this information was pivotal to the case."
Regardless of intentions or the criminal behavior of a target, it is not in the realm of a private entity to determine which laws to follow and which to ignore. It's because of this hubris, which runs up and down the News Corp. ladder, that the company has landed in this place.
A former editor for Rupert Murdoch's shuttered tabloid News of the World is defending the publication's routine use of the fictional byline "Edward Trevor," a practice which is reportedly under investigation by Scotland Yard.
Over the weekend, The Independent reported that "[d]etectives are interested in Trevor because this 'house byline' appeared on work that for various reasons the real author did not want to be associated with." Trevor's byline appears on hundreds of stories published in the infamous British newspaper, which Murdoch closed last year amidst allegations that reporters there engaged in widespread phone hacking and police bribery.
But Stuart White, who served as News of the World's LA-based American Editor from 1994 to 2003 and is now a novelist, tells Media Matters there is nothing unique or nefarious about the use of a "house byline" like Edward Trevor, adding, "the back story to this is that both The Independent and the Guardian are obsessed with ravaging the corpse of the News of the World."
From the February 14 edition of CNN's Starting Point:
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"This is the most humble day of my life."
That's how Rupert Murdoch began his July 20 testimony to Parliament about the phone hacking and bribery scandal that had already resulted in the resignations and arrests of key News Corp. officials.
Murdoch's son, James, was equally contrite. "I would like to say as well just how sorry I am and how sorry we are, to particularly the victims of illegal voicemail interceptions and to their families," he told the committee. "It is a matter of great regret to me, my father and everyone at News Corporation. These actions do not live up to the standards that our company aspires to everywhere around the world."
The story had begun spiraling out of Rupert Murdoch's control two weeks earlier, when the Guardian reported allegations that employees of Murdoch's London tabloid News of the World had hacked into the mobile phone voicemails of a British schoolgirl who had gone missing, and who was later found dead.
"I cannot think what was going through the minds of the people who did this. That they could hack into anyone's phone is disgraceful," lamented Prime Minister David Cameron as the scandal quickly engulfed the U.K., and spread throughout Murdoch's global media reach. "But to hack into the phone of Milly Dowler, a young girl missing from her parents, who was later found to be murdered, is truly despicable."
Allegations of phone hacking within Murdoch's newspapers had been simmering for years in the U.K., and News Corp. had been forced to make public apologies for the systematic invasions of privacy, often sponsored by News of the World and targeting celebrities, athletes and members of the royal family.
And while parts of the Dowler story have since been called into question, News Corp. agreed to pay her family 2 million pounds, and Murdoch himself delivered an apology in person. Moreover, the story set off a cascade of damning revelations that have continued to this day.
Evidence quickly tumbled out indicating the hacking been widespread, and that multiple, high-ranking executives had known about the intrusions. That meant previous explanations to Parliament, when Murdoch managers claimed the crimes had been limited, had been misleading at best. At worst, Murdoch chiefs lied to lawmakers in an effort to cover-up massive wrongdoing.
For years, Media Matters has documented the stream of purposeful misinformation that flows from Murdoch's American properties, most notably Fox News, where the misinformation has taken an epic turn for the worse under President Obama. Yet the corporate spectacle on display this year is even more troubling. This has been Murdoch overseeing a corrupt enterprise and one whose transgressions extend well beyond tapping into phone messages.
And for that dubious distinction, as well as for starring in a media unraveling that has attracted multiple police and government investigations on several continents, Rupert Murdoch and his international media behemoth are the recipients of this year's Misinformer of the Year award.
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UPDATE: Greenslade has since written the following:
Let me try to cast a little light on the story about MPs from the Commons media select committee being put under surveillance by the News of the World.
This appears to have gained legs because of an interview I gave to a US site, Media Matters, on Saturday afternoon.
By chance, I had been previously speaking to a source who told me that every member had been shadowed for a period of three days.
Due to the context of the conversation, I took him to mean early in 2011. However, it transpired - after I had given the interview - that he was talking about mid-2009.
That is a very important difference, of course, but I cleared up the misunderstanding with a couple of tweets and also in a phone call to one of the committee members.
However, the substantive matter of MPs being followed remains a live issue - which they are planning to discuss - and this is what I understand to have happened.
While discussing the News Corp. hacking scandal during an appearance on SiriusXM's Media Matters Radio on Saturday, Guardian writer Roy Greenslade said that a confidential source told him that "for three days, only six, seven months ago, every single member of the parliamentary committee investigating this matter were followed by private eyes and/or members of staff of the newspaper. And only after some of the staff protested that they didn't want to do it did the -- were they called off."
Previous reports had revealed that celebrities, politicians, a teenage crime victim, and police had been victims of phone hacking by The News of the World, the News Corp. tabloid that was shut down as a result of the scandal.
From the November 12 edition of SiriusXM's Media Matters Radio:
ARI RABIN-HAVT (co-host): Roy, do you think that News Corp. is a criminal enterprise? To be pointed about it.
GREENSLADE: I think, you know, in truth, it would be way over the top for me to say that. And I was equally distressed that Tom Watson had referred to the Mafia. But, you know, one can understand why he did, for goodness' sake. When we talk about omerta, we talk about a code of silence. Well, for several years, News International, which is the U.K. division of News Corporation, has maintained a code of silence. They have lied, they have deceived, and they have briefed private eyes to follow people. And in Tom Watson's case, you can understand why he was incredibly angry to find that he's been under secret surveillance for several occasions.
And I can add a little to what Steven said, because I do have a source who was in The News of the World, the newspaper that was closed after this debacle. And he tells me that for three days, only six, seven months ago, every single member of the parliamentary committee investigating this matter were followed by private eyes and/or members of staff of the newspaper. And only after some of the staff protested that they didn't want to do it did the -- were they called off.
Now, that goes even beyond what we've previously heard. And I've only just been told this in the last 24 hours, so your audience is getting a scoop here.
RABIN-HAVT: So, are we breaking a little news here?
GREENSLADE: You are breaking a story. I wish I could name the source, but, of course, I have it confidentially.
From the November 12 edition of SiriusXM's Media Matters Radio:
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Reuters is reporting that a journalist from The Sun has been arrested in connection to the continuing investigation into allegations that News Corp. has engaged in widespread phone hacking and bribery -- the latest in a series of arrests of News Corp. employees related to the investigation.
From the Reuters report:
Police investigating events at the News of the World tabloid said they had arrested a 48-year-old in connection with payments made to police. A spokesman for News Corp's British newspaper arm News International said an employee had been arrested.
Two company sources identified the man as Sun reporter Jamie Pyatt.
The scandal has infuriated News Corp minority shareholders, forced the resignations of top British police officers and embarrassed Prime Minister David Cameron who had hired the former editor of the News of the World as his media advisor.
The revelations have led to a string of police inquiries and civil court cases after it emerged earlier this year that the popular tabloid had hacked phones on an almost industrial scale to generate exclusive stories.
From the October 21 edition of Fox News' The Fox Report:
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In the wake of its widespread phone-hacking scandal and subsequent shareholder lawsuit, News Corp. has been included in a new study from GMI, a research firm that rates 4,200 of the world's most actively traded companies. GMI's "Risk List" is a report of 10 companies "whose weak governance, poor environmental or social records or misaligned compensation structures present hazards to investors that aren't adequately reflected in their current valuations." From GMI:
Many high-profile corporate disasters have been attributed, in large part, to poor corporate governance. A recent example is the scandal that has encompassed News Corporation, where allegations of phone hacking were presaged by failing governance ratings based on severe weaknesses in the quality of board oversight.
For years, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has raised social concerns about the effects of concentrated media ownership on public discourse. The recent phone hacking scandal has brought additional scrutiny of the company's journalistic standards and ethics, as well as its relationships with various government agencies. The short-term investment impact of the hacking story has been less than clear: after an initial dip, the company's share price has rebounded to the level it enjoyed before the scandal broke. However, we believe that the company's poor governance contributed to its recent problems, and may continue to put investors' interests at risk.
The report also warned investors that despite recent changes, "there is little indication that the quality of the company's governance is improving":
Although there have been some high-profile management resignations and a few name changes at the board level since the recent scandal, there is little indication that the quality of the company's governance is improving -- particularly in the crucial area of the relationship between the board and Murdoch. As an example, the company's investigation into the phone-hacking scandal is being led by directors with strong ties to the company and the Murdoch family. Investors in the company -- who include a vast swath of the investing public, due to its inclusion in the S&P 500 index -- may be vulnerable to further fallout from weak board oversight in the future.
From the September 19 edition of Current TV's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
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Fox television's Emmy broadcast offers prima-facie evidence of News Corp.'s inherent dishonesty.
A few days before the ceremony, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin tweeted, "I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me NewsCorp may cut the funniest line."
The as-yet unknown joke, it turns out, involved the phone-hacking scandal that has enveloped the company. Apparently Fox believed it would be "in poor taste to make light of the serious allegations surrounding the phone-hacking scandal."
Of course, Fox News and other News Corp. properties have been minimizing the scandal for months. Bill O'Reilly dismissed scandal as a witch hunt, telling his audience: "You have the New York Times absolutely running wild with the story, front page, front page, front page, column, column, column, vicious stuff and it's all ideological!"
And the Wall Street Journal editorial board responded to the scandal by attacking critics of its parent company, "The Schadenfreude is so thick you can't cut it with a chainsaw. Especially redolent are lectures about journalistic standards from publications that give Julian Assange and WikiLeaks their moral imprimatur."
Even chairman Rupert Murdoch, before being humbled by Parliament, told the Wall Street Journal his company had handled the scandal "extremely well in every way possible," making just "minor mistakes."
So a joke that surely would have shone a negative light on News Corp. is in "poor taste" because it "makes light" of the seriousness of phone hacking, even though numerous branches of the company have been doing just that for months.
News Corp. also used the Emmy broadcast to get in some environmental doublespeak. Through Fox News, the company has been responsible for deceitful anti-environmental broadcasts. Now in an attempt to win PR points, the company dishonestly attempted to green-wash its horrendous statements on environmental policy by releasing the following statement before the telecast:
FOX, in partnership with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will bring clean energy to the 63RD PRIMETIME EMMY(R) AWARDS airing live Sunday, Sept. 18 (8:00-11:00 PM ET live/5:00-8:00 PM PT live) on FOX. Solar panels will provide power to the Primetime Emmys red carpet and, for the first time ever, FOX will donate the solar panels and the red carpet to local charities after the event. In addition, the 390-foot red carpet is the largest ever to be lit entirely by low-energy LED and fluorescent lighting.
It's ironic to see Fox is bragging about using solar power, considering that earlier this month viewers of Fox Business were told: "Half the time solar panels don't even work. Half the time they do work they produce expensive electricity. This is just lose, lose, lose, for America. We can't do it here".
And those light bulbs used on the red carpet? Fox is opposed to those as well: "Now these new light bulbs are being made, I believe, in China, and so you might wonder about whether or not we should save the old light bulb just to save some jobs here in this country."
Whether censoring comics or covering its horrendous environmental record, the Emmy awards are yet another example of why News Corp. should never be trusted.
From the September 16 edition of Current TV's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
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It was always a matter of time before the News International phone hacking scandal washed ashore on the American side of the Atlantic. News Corporation is legally chartered here and listed on the NASDAQ, is physically headquartered in Manhattan, and controls several influential U.S. properties across a range of media. A News Corp. scandal like the phone hacking charges that engulfed its British print subsidiary is by definition an American scandal.
Long maintaining a pride of place amongst News Corp.'s U.S. holdings is The New York Post, which Rupert Murdoch purchased in 1976 for $30 million -- or roughly half of what the paper is estimated to bleed in annual losses.
Rupert Murdoch has bought other New York print properties over the years, including New York magazine and the Village Voice, but the Post has always been dearest to him. Murdoch is a tabloid creature at heart -- known for his love for short and punchy articles -- and over the course of nearly 40 years, the Post is the only American publication he's ever bought twice. After selling the paper in 1988 in an act of forced compliance with now-defunct media ownership laws, the American-naturalized mogul reacquired the paper in 1993 with a crucial assist from New York's then-governor Mario Cuomo.
It is during this most recent 18-year ownership stint that the Post has established an unrivaled reputation as the bottom-feeder of American print journalism. The paper's near-comical reputation for inaccuracy is so widespread that even Gretchen Carlson -- an anchor at Fox News, the Post's corporate cousin -- recently criticized its lack of credibility.
This is not surprising, considering that The Post was for years Murdoch's only U.S. print property staffed with his clan's inner-circle of favored British and Australian tabloid veterans. The paper lost this distinction when Murdoch purchased The Wall Street Journal in 2007 and installed lifetime loyalist and News International chairman Les Hinton as publisher. Hinton resigned this past July in the wake of growing controversy over his leadership role at News International between 1995 and 2007, when phone hacking is known to have occurred at the papers under his control.
Years before Murdoch installed Hinton at the Journal, he imported another Fleet Street product to New York in the form of Colin Myler. At the time of his arrival in 2001, Myler was all but unemployable in Britain. In April of that year, he had resigned after publishing an article in the Sunday Mirror that led to the collapse of an active and very expensive trial. Myler faced the possibility of criminal charges and even jail time, but in the end his paper was merely fined for contempt of court. Murdoch apparently intended to keep Myler in New York until the British public forgot about the incident, and he worked as a top editor at the Post for nearly six years. In 2007, Murdoch brought Myler back into the News International fold to edit the now defunct News of the World. The man who had left the UK under a cloud of his own scandal returned to deal with another editor's mess: Myler replaced editor Andy Coulson, who had just resigned in the wake of revelations that News of the World reporters had hacked into royal voicemails.
Myler probably wishes he had stayed in New York. Soon after his return to London, he took over the internal investigation that concluded hacking at the tabloid was restricted to one "rogue reporter." The next year, Myler personally advised James Murdoch to authorize a large out-of-court payment to a hacking victim. The disgraced editor has most recently emerged on the other side of the Murdoch divide. He now disputes the idea that James Murdoch was not exposed to the possibility that multiple reporters were involved in hacking. Myler's reversal, in which he is joined by News of the World's former head of legal affairs, Tom Crone, may result in James Murdoch being summoned for a second time before British Members of Parliament.
Soon after the News of the World scandal exploded this summer, questions emerged over whether similar illegal activity may have occurred at the Post. As a Fleet Street veteran, Myler provided connective tissue between News International and a News Corp. U.S. print operation. But Myler isn't the only Post figure to draw scrutiny. There is also the Post editor-in-chief to whom Myler reported in New York, the Australian Col Allan. The veteran editor is equally notorious for his taste and tolerance for sleaze, vengeance, and venom as he is for an ability to alienate and disgust his staff. Not for nothing is his Post nickname "Col Pot."


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