NBC-Dow Jones Deal May Make Sense
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| NBC agreed with Microsoft, but the media company, which owns CNBC and
| MSNBC, may pursue another partner to thwart Murdoch.
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| [...]
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| For NBC, a joint venture with Microsoft would have been the most
| logical arrangement because the pair launched MSNBC during the
| height of the dot-com boom. However, in recent years, Microsoft
| has edged away from the cable news channel arena to focus on its
| core businesses. In 2005, Microsoft divested a large chunk of its
| stake to NBC but maintained a 50% holding in the online news site.
| NBC was likely interested in a joint venture with Microsoft to
| minimize its own exposure to risk.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/11/dow-nbc-closer-markets-equity-cx_er_ra_0611markets47.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yt8cez
For your highly biased daily news. They now have the BBC as a pal, too...
Related:
Would you have allowed Bill Gates to be born? [this is actually a praise]
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| (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7899821/
Should MSNBC really be "reviewing" [Microsoft's] Gears of War?
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| MSNBC recently reviewed Gears of War, calling it the Xbox 360's first
| killer app.... Nowhere on the page is any indication of the possible
| ethical issue MSNBC is "Microsoft-NBC", and the site is hosted as a
| subdomain of msn.com (a major Microsoft portal). Is this really balanced
| journalism?
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http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/should_msnbc_really_be__quot_reviewing_quot__gears_of_war_
Wrong Yesterday Wrong Today Wrong Tomorrow
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| I just got through watching a segment on the Today Show on NBC
| highlighting the launch of the Microsoft Zune.
|
| First of all, I thought journalists were suppose to reveal their
| affiliations with any product if such an affiliation exists.
| Microsoft owns a stake in NBC ie MSNBC News Network.
|
| [...]
|
| Second, all the side by side product comparisons showed 4th Gen iPods
| with monochrome screens with no song selected or playing, while the
| Zune was playing a video.
|
| [...]
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| This isn't the first time NBC has misled its morning viewers with
| puff pieces about the Zune.
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http://fixyourthinking.com/2006/11/wrong-yesterday-wrong-today-wrong.html
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
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| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
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| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
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| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
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