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News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch listens to remarks while participating in the Wall St. Journal CEO Council on "Rebuilding Global Prosperity" in Washington November 16, 2009. Financially, owning both high and low-brow publications makes sense -- although newspapers made up only 19 percent of News Corp's revenues of $32.8 billion in 2010. In Britain, Murdoch's tabloids subsidise The Times, which has an average daily circulation of just under half a million -- about double the readership when he bought it - but is loss-making. Picture taken November 16, 2009. To match Special Report NEWSCORP/TAINT REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS MEDIA HEADSHOT) (© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Murdoch now faces FBI probe, Parliament hearing

Alex Pareene
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. takes part in news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (Harry Hamburg)

Andrew Leonard
FILE - Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks in Charleston, S.C., in this photo taken June 29, 2011. Facing a Thursday deadline to report quarterly fundraising, Republican presidential hopefuls make final-hour pitches for contributions that will be an early measurement of their campaign's strength _ or potential weakness. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is expected to report the largest haul.(AP Photo/Alice Keeney) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the 28th annual National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference, Thursday, June 23, 2011, in San Antonio. Perry is considering a run for president. But he received a tepid reception Thursday following speeches by Democratic Hispanic leaders. They denounced some of Perry's most prized policies as openly hostile to Hispanics. Among those issues is a requirement for tougher enforcement of immigration laws. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) (Darren Abate)

Alex Pareene
President Barack Obama

Steve Kornacki
FILE - In this June 17, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks in New Orleans. Paul says he will retire from Congress when his term runs out in 2012 and will focus on his campaign for president. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Bill McKibben
In this Sunday, June 12, 2011 photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a United For Life event event organized by a Hispanic anti-abortion group at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) (Richard Vogel)

Justin Elliott

Voters blame Bush for the economy

Natasha Lennard
FILE - In this May 10, 2011, file photo Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, listens to a questions from media after touring the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, N.Y. Jaczko is facing harsh critiques come from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general's report, released in June 2011, which said he intimidated staff members who disagreed with him and withheld information from members of the commission to gain their support. President Barack Obama put the former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is Yucca's leading opponent, at the helm of the agency in May 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Dina Cappiello
FILE -- In this file photo of Thursday, June 16, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, right, stands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cantor, who has been participating in bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden, pulled out today citing an impasse over taxes that required intervention by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

David Espo, Andrew Taylor
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2010 file photo Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) (Associated Press)

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch arrives at his residence in central London, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. News Corporation announced Wednesday it has dropped its bid to takeover British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), after the British tabloid newspaper News of the World is accused of hacking into the mobile phones of various crime victims, celebrities and politicians.(AP Photo/Sang Tan) (AP)

Jill Lawless, Robert Barr

Natasha Lennard
A man sits surrounded by protester signs on day eight of protests against the budget cuts proposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (Rep.) at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin February 22, 2011. The Wisconsin state Assembly on Tuesday opened debate on a Republican proposal to curb the power of public sector unions that has sparked mass demonstrations and a tense stand-off with Democrats. REUTERS/Darren Hauck (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) (Reuters)

The laboratories of democracy are for sale

Alex Pareene

Finally: Full Manning-Lamo chat logs released

Glenn Greenwald
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Lincoln Dinner, an annual fundraising event for the New York GOP, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in New York. Perry stirred speculation Tuesday that he would seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, championing his state's economy before a packed GOP gathering in New York and telling a television interviewer he would engage in a "thought process" before deciding whether to join the field. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) (Bill Kostroun)

Joan Walsh
Michele Bachmann's stepsister, Helen LaFave, celebrates Obama's inauguration

Natasha Lennard
Rupert Murdoch leaves his home in Mayfair, London, as British Prime Minister David Cameron joined demands for the media mogul to drop his BSkyB takeover bid in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal Wednesday July 13, 2011. Britain's House of Commons is poised to demand that Rupert Murdoch give up on his ambition of taking over a lucrative broadcaster while a phone hacking scandal rages around his British newspaper holdings. Cameron has put his party's weight behind an opposition motion up for a vote Wednesday which declares that bidding for full control of British Sky Broadcasting would not be in the national interest. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Gene Lyons
Mitch McConnell

Andrew Leonard

Peter Finocchiaro
News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch attends the eG8 forum in Paris, in this file photo taken May 24, 2011. (Reuters)

Wall Street Journal family regrets Murdoch sale

Alex Pareene
Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks tells a local news station that he would do "anything short of shooting" undocumented immmigrants

GOP congressman's disturbing immigration comments

Natasha Lennard
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 11, 2011, as debt talks continued. (AP/Susan Walsh)

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