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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:35am on Saturday, August 15th, 2009 | Who Is Philip Anschutz? Portfolio.com posed the question and offered some answers on August 7, 2009:
"Throughout his career, Michael Jackson surrounded himself with unusual characters, from Marlon Brando to Bubbles the chimp. As his life was subsumed in controversy and financial difficulties, Jackson took on surprising advisers, like members of the Nation of Islam, orthodox-rabbi-turned-reality-show-host (and advocate of something called The Kosher Sutra) Shmuley Boteach, and Saudi prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
Late in life, Jackson may have found his most mysterious—and lucrative—partner in Philip Anschutz, the Denver-based billionaire who has made money in everything from oil to telecom to movie-making and distribution."
The full story:
http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/08/07/who-is-philip-anschutz-and-why-is-he-in-business-with-michael-jackson-and-the-weekly-standard/
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:20pm on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | Weekly Standard editor William Kristol assails "Liberal Media" and "GOP Hacks" in defending Sarah Palin, from a blog post on June 30, 2009:
"Lefty journalist Todd Purdum has a hit piece in the new Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. You don’t have to be a big Palin fan to recognize the article is full of dubious claims, and is dependent on self-serving stories provided on background by some of the people who ran the McCain campaign into the ground.
Here’s a highlight of Purdum’s reporting: “More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--’a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’--and thought it fit her perfectly.”
The full blog:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:55pm on Monday, June 29th, 2009 | The Weekly Standard loses an estimated $5 million annually, Forbes magazine reported on June 29, 2009, in an article by Dirk Smillie about "stealth media mogul" and billionaire Philip Anschutz.
The full story:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/28/anschutz-weekly-standard-business-media-examiner.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 3:55pm on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | Clarity Media Group, the parent company of the Washington Examiner and San Francisco Examiner newspapers, has bought the Weekly Standard from News Corporation, the Washington Examiner reported on June 17, 2009:
"Clarity Media Group CEO Ryan McKibben announced today that the company had acquired The Weekly Standard magazine, which he characterized as “one of the most highly respected publications of public policy and political commentary in America.”
According to McKibben, Clarity Media Group intends to build on the editorial strengths of The Weekly Standard’s current staff and increase the magazine’s circulation and ad pages. “We have the highest regard for the editors and staff of The Weekly Standard, particularly founder William Kristol and executive editor Fred Barnes. The Weekly Standard’s content deals with the most critical public policy issues of our time, in an intelligent and compelling way.” said McKibben.
Weekly Standard editor William Kristol issued the following statement with respect to the ownership change:
"I want to express my personal gratitude, and that of my colleagues, to Rupert Murdoch. His generous support and (if I may use the term) liberal disposition have made whatever we’ve accomplished possible."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 12:53pm on Friday, June 12th, 2009 | News Corporation may sell The Weekly Standard to Philip Anschutz, the Los Angeles Times reported on June 9, 2009:
"News Corp. is near a deal to sell its right-wing political magazine, the Weekly Standard, to conservative media mogul Philip Anschutz, according to people familiar with the situation.
Launched in 1995 and edited by William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard has been a pet political project for News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. While its circulation, according to the magazine's website is only 83,000 (it hasn't been audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation since 1996), it reaches the upper echelon of Capitol Hill insiders and gave the media mogul cache among the Washington elite.
Now that Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, however, whose conservative editorial page wields a much bigger political stick, he may no longer really need the Weekly Standard, which preaches much the same message, but to a considerably smaller audience. Murdoch's own political views seem to have swung more toward the center over the last few years, and that, too, might be a factor in his decision to sell."
The full story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/06/news-corp-in-talks-to-sell-weekly-standard-to-anschutz.html
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Jeff
Sycamore | Posted at 2:42pm on Friday, October 5th, 2007 | In my opinion this is a very biased magazine. I read it from time to time but I have a hard time telling the spin and bias from fact. That said, at times the writing skills displayed here are often quite brilliant, if deeply biased toward a neo-conservative point of view.
In my opinion it tends to preach to a very far-right wing choir and seems to have a small, dedicated group of loyal followers.
However, I would rate it very low when it comes to unbiased reporting of news. There seems to little "Facts, and nothing but the facts" here unless they (a) verbally destroy anyone with a different point of view or (b) point out how only the far-right is correct.
Everything seems to be filtered through a rather narrow filter before it appears in print. This periodical definitely destroys the neo-con fantasy of a "liberal-biased media."
But then, the latest adverts on Fox News tell the whole story - something about putting those nasty Liberals and wrong-thinking Republicans in their place.
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