http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/25051/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/liberal-journalists-celebs-attack-rupert-murdochs-offer-buy-time-warner <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Worst attacks include jokes about Murdoch being the ‘date rapist of media barons,’ news site shares song parody about him dying. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/mike-ciandella">Mike Ciandella</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">Liberal journalists are fine with media moguls – unless the mogul happens to not be a fellow liberal. When word got out in July that 21st Century Fox owner Rupert Murdoch had made an offer to purchase Time Warner, the parent company for Warner Brothers, HBO and CNN, the media panicked.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Mike Ciandella is Research Analyst at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@mikeciandella" target="_blank">Follow Mike Ciandella on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/liberal-journalists-celebs-attack-rupert-murdochs-offer-buy-time-warner" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Business Media 21st Century Fox Bill Maher CNN Entertainment Media Fox Fox News Humor insult Jane Fonda Jon Stewart Kickstarter Matthew Yglesias media baron media conglomerates media moguls media outlets news media Rupert Murdoch song parody time warner Vox Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:49:54 +0000 julia.seymour 46869 at http://archive2.mrc.org