Instead, we're given recognizable actors (Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci) in small roles where they pop up from time to time and spout something apocryphal for the benefit of the audience, like a British newspaper editor (David Thewlis) bellowing: «He's the head of a huge global
media empire who's accountable to no one.
Not exact matches
When it comes to old - fashioned
media moguls
who control their
empires with an iron fist, Viacom's Sumner Redstone is right up there with the best of them.
Redstone's truculence is reminiscent of her father Sumner,
who built his
media empire around Viacom cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, later adding CBS and Paramount film studios.
Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus
who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or
media empire.
Whatever the reason, the news will come as a further blow to Mr Murdoch,
who has watched his global
media empire come under attack on several fronts since the scandal over alleged phone - hacking at the News of the World hit the front pages.
The Deputy Prime Minister,
who this week alone has dismissed calls for a free vote on gay marriage, at least for his own party and ruled out emergency border controls when the Euro collapses, will go on the offensive over the links between the «other» two parties and the Murdoch
media empire.
Popular Social
Media activist, Japheth Omojuwa,
who also spoke at the event, urged participants to use the various platforms very well even if they choose to use one, with much intensity they can build an
empire from it.
Walter H. Annenberg,
who died last week at age 94, built a lucrative
media empire, played host to presidents and princes, and established two respected schools of communications that bear his name.
There are two types of people interested in quizzing Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg: those
who envy his success and others
who are avid users of his social
media website (or perhaps better described as a sort of
empire).
Last week, the
media mogul pledged not only to make his News Corp.
empire carbon neutral, but to persuade the hundreds of millions of people
who watch his TV channels and read his newspapers to join the cause.
The first UK barrister to blog is «geeklawyer», specialising in intellectual property, technology and
media issuesDescribed as an IP lawyer
who once did R&D in the U.S. for the «evil American
empire» and
who blogs about IP, civil liberties, the legal system, and «angry liberal» things..
Jia Yueting,
who built Chinese firm LeEco into a sprawling business
empire, has had assets frozen by a Shanghai court, the company said Tuesday, confirming an earlier report in state
media.