The World Watches Sky News UK—Whether It Asked To or Not By our man in the departure lounge with an expired passport and a running tab If you have ever spent a sleepless night in a foreign airport, you have met Sky News UK. It flickers above the baggage carousel in Dubai at 03:14, murmurs…
Fox Sports: The Global Coliseum Where National Pride Meets Corporate Greed By Dave’s International Bureau of Manufactured Drama If the Roman Empire had invented satellite television before the aqueduct, the Colosseum would have been plastered with the Fox Sports logo, and gladiators would have paused mid-decapitation to thank their hydration partner, Gatorade™. Two millennia later,…
**The Bishop Who Streams Salvation: Robert Barron’s Digital Empire and the Vatican’s Netflix Strategy** ROME—While Silicon Valley titans race to colonize Mars and Wall Street wizards invent new ways to lose other people’s money, Bishop Robert Barron has quietly built something far more ambitious: a global Catholic media empire that makes Netflix’s content library look…
The New York Times: A Very American Empire That Still Pretends to Be Shocked By Our Correspondent in a Café Where the Wi-Fi Costs Extra Somewhere between the croissant crumbs and the existential dread that passes for breakfast in most of the world, the international press corps has learned to treat The New York Times…
Rupert Murdoch, 93, has announced—again, with the weary inevitability of a Bond villain returning for one last sequel—that he will finally loosen his grip on the Death Star of global media. Or, more accurately, he’ll shuffle sideways into the honorary title of “Chairman Emeritus” of Fox and News Corp while his son Lachlan assumes the…
SYDNEY—If you squint at the skyline long enough, you can almost see the Murdoch empire’s shadow lengthening across three oceans, a Rorschach blot of satellites, tabloids, and streaming pixels. At the blot’s center stands Lachlan Murdoch: heir, enigma, and—depending on which brunch table you pollute—either the last lion tamer of legacy media or the trust-fund…
Sky News: A Small Island’s Loud Megaphone That the World Can’t Mute By Dave’s Locker International Desk LONDON—In the great bazaar of global news, Sky News is that stall run by the bloke who insists his artisanal hogwash is ethically sourced while simultaneously flogging you a half-price knock-off Rolex. Born in 1989 as Rupert Murdoch’s…
