DRUDGEFOXACALYPSE: Murdochs Push for Ailes to Leave Fox News
Posted: July 19, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Drudge Report, Financial Times, Fox News, Greta Van Susteren, James Murdoch, Richard Nixon, Roger Ailes, Sean Hannity Leave a commentThe departure of Mr Ailes could have an impact on the Republican party. Supremely well connected, he has helped shape the Republican agenda for more than a decade.
Roger Ailes is heading for the exit at Fox News Channel, the influential cable network beloved by American conservatives, with Rupert Murdoch and his sons in agreement that he should leave amid allegations of sexual harassment.
“Three of Fox News’ biggest stars — Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren — have clauses in their contracts that would allow them to depart if Mr Ailes were to leave the network…”
The timing and terms of the departure of the man who turned Fox News into a media and political powerhouse were unclear on Tuesday evening. Mr Murdoch, executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, the channel’s parent company, and Lachlan, his older son and co-chairman, would prefer to wait until after this week’s Republican convention, two people briefed on the matter told the Financial Times.
James Murdoch, Mr Murdoch’s younger son and chief executive, was pushing for Mr Ailes to go as soon as possible, those people said.
Late on Tuesday, the Drudge Report said that Mr Ailes had left Fox News with a $40m severance package. 21st Century Fox denied the report in a tweeted statement, saying: “Roger is at work. The review is ongoing. The only agreement that is in place is his existing employment agreement.”
“In another blow to Mr Ailes, New York magazine reported on Tuesday that Megyn Kelly, arguably Fox News’ biggest star, told lawyers leading the internal investigation that Mr Ailes had sexually harassed her a decade ago. 21st Century Fox declined to comment on the report and Fox News referred queries to its parent company.”
In 2012, the last year for which Mr Ailes’ pay was disclosed in the company’s proxy filing, he earned a total of $21m, including a $5m salary. Read the rest of this entry »
Blossom: The $5,950 Coffee Machine That Apple, Tesla and NASA Built
Posted: March 24, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: A123 Systems, Apple Inc, Automotive industry, Electric car, Elon Musk, Financial Times, iPhone, Silicon Valley, Tesla Motors, The Wall Street Journal Leave a commentThe same high-end appliance Starbucks uses to fine-tune brews
Silicon Valley types know how to optimize their lives.
Molly Mulshine reports: They monitor workouts with high-tech armbands and step-counters and control their homes’ temperatures from the comfort of their iPhones. The hard-core have even removed the guesswork from their diets, ingesting nutrients in the form of a few fine-tuned daily protein shakes and vitamins from IV drips. Don’t you just hate them?
So it is not surprising that the tech world’s top brass put their heads together to create the perfect coffee machine, the Blossom Brewer. Made specifically for cafes and restaurants, of course, the tech elite have snaffled them up for their homes.
The one-cup machine was developed by a group of engineers with experience at Apple, Tesla Motors, BMW and NASA. Yes, NASA. Read the rest of this entry »
Francis Ford Coppola Talks About ‘Traumatic’ Business Lessons
Posted: February 14, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Actor, Alan Phillip Gross, Apocalypse Now, Architectural Digest, Big Business, C. Thomas Howell, Financial Times, Francis Ford Coppola, Hollywood, Movies 1 CommentFrancis Ford Coppola talks about ‘traumatic’ business lessons in #BreakfastwiththeFT http://t.co/HKhEbgigGv pic.twitter.com/SNUBbF2BZh
— Financial Times (@FT) February 14, 2015
Jihadist Sympathizing Financial Times Boldly Calls Out Freshly-Murdered Writers and Cartoonists at French Satirical Weekly Charlie Hebdo for ‘Mocking, Baiting’, Being ‘Stupid’
Posted: January 7, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: cowardice, Financial Times, France, Ft.com, Islamism, Jihadism, media, murder, news, Paris, Terrorism, Violence Leave a commentA windowless plane would be lighter and cheaper to fly, but would you want to travel in one?
Posted: August 26, 2014 Filed under: Space & Aviation, U.S. News | Tags: design, Financial Times, Panorama, Paris, Planes, State and Technology, Stream, Views, Windowless Leave a commentA windowless plane would be lighter and cheaper to fly, but would you want to travel in one? http://t.co/VTOroQhoZDpic.twitter.com/mvknqx2gyY
— Financial Times (@FT) August 27, 2014
Big in Japan: How Tokyo is Gearing Up for the 2020 Olympics
Posted: July 11, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Japan | Tags: 2020 Summer Olympics, Asia, Financial Times, International Olympic Committee, Japan, Japanese Olympic Committee, Olympic games, Tokyo 1 CommentBig in Japan: how Tokyo is gearing up for the 2020 Olympics http://t.co/5B7hkcOFqc pic.twitter.com/UokYPhwh9q
— Financial Times (@FT) July 12, 2014
McDonalds Hires 7,000 Touch-Screen Cashiers
Posted: May 10, 2014 Filed under: Economics, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: Big Mac, Chicken McNuggets, Filet-o-Fish, Financial Times, HAL 9000, Happy Meal, iPad, McDonald 3 CommentsWould you like some microchips with that burger? McDonald’s Europe strikes another blow against human interaction by installing 7,000 touch-screen computers to take your order and money.

McDonald’s shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009. McDonald’s Europe
“Welcome to McDonald’s . My name is HAL 9000. May I take your order?”
Amanda Kooser writes: McDonalds recently went on a hiring binge in the U.S., adding 62,000 employees to its roster. The hiring picture doesn’t look quite so rosy for Europe, where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.
The move is designed to boost efficiency and make ordering more convenient for customers. In an interview with the Financial Times, McDonald’s Europe President Steve Easterbrook notes that the new system will also open up a goldmine of data. McDonald’s could potentially track every Big Mac, McNugget, and large shake you order. A calorie account tally at the end of the year could be a real shocker. Read the rest of this entry »
As in 1950s, China aims to erase malicious ideas of democracy and constitutionalism
Posted: September 13, 2013 Filed under: China, History, Think Tank | Tags: Baoding, Beijing, Chinese Revolution, Financial Times, Frank Dikötter, Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, Xi Zhongxun 3 Comments
On a wintry day in February 1952, two victims, their hands tied behind their backs, were marched off to the execution grounds of Baoding, the provincial capital of Hebei, just south of Beijing. They were shot in the heart rather than in the head,”writes Frank Dikotter, the author of Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution:
Both victims were central actors in the local party hierarchy. It was the defining moment of a campaign against corruption Mao Zedong had unleashed against the party itself. There were mere “flies” who needed to be swatted, the chairman explained, and there were “tigers”. Everywhere tiger-hunting teams tried to outdo each other, encouraged from above by Mao. Read the rest of this entry »