Just say no to Rupert
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NEW YORK -- I was lucky enough to find myself here Monday night at the Gerald Loeb awards, the Pulitzers of business journalism. Too bad the Bancrofts of Boston couldn't have been here, too.
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Go ahead and be contrarian. Just make sure you're right.
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No deal, but a vote of support for the video giant.
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Disregard BC-People-Streisand. Duplicates material already on the wire.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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ELEANOR HALL: For the second time in less than a year, News Corporation boss, Rupert Murdoch, has modified his plans to stave off the anger of Australian institutional shareholders.
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Rupert invading D.C. may be overstating things. Looks great in a big headline, though, doesn't it?
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: I'm an atheist but still I resent this joker in Rome slighting my community. A residual theological chauvinism is aroused.
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If you're already groaning at the prospect of spending time with your own lovable but annoying family over the holidays, think twice about seeing "Dan in Real Life." Do you really want to donate time and money to hang with someone else's annoying relations?
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Rama Rama Kya Hai Drama gives us a shameful version of marital dilemmas with zilch support from the story department. All we get is some bad marital advice from Rajpal Yadav.
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Forget altruism. Think about yourself first.
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Trading Mark Brunell is an easy call but it would be the wrong move, a rash decision to please nobody but a fussy and tired congregation.
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A Fool swears off biotech stocks, but not for the reason you'd expect.
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Comment is free: Isabel Hilton: Britain is wrong to roll out the red carpet for the head of a defiant army.
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Comment is free: Sarah Boseley: The service's reputation has been hurt this week, but that's no reason to abandon Bevan's baby.
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Forget about finding the next Microsoft. You'll do better by looking at what others don't want.
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Jonathan Ross is forced to apologise after actor Rupert Everett swears on his radio show.