Cato Stonex: Tell NewsCorp Beck Needs to Generate $$ or he’s Out

By: Tuesday October 12, 2010 6:38 pm

The media may want to bury the news that 296 advertisers don’t want their commercials shown on the Glenn Beck show, and the NewCorp management may pretend it’s no big deal, but as we are told over and over, “maximizing shareholder value” is the most important thing in the world.

So what should a concerned investor in a company do when the corporate managers keep employing someone who has gone from an asset to a liability? What actions should they demand management take? And if management doesn’t act, how should they respond?

Below I ask these questions to the largest institutional investor of NewsCorp, probably the only people on the planet with enough clout to demand real answers.

Another Summer of Discontent; Another Summer of Stupid

By: Tuesday October 12, 2010 9:19 am

Before the deep freeze starts here in the East-
A brief summary of another bummer of a summer…

What to do When Beck’s Followers Attack

By: Monday October 11, 2010 1:36 pm

A man is arrested with guns on his way to shoot up the Tides Foundation. In an affidavit, an Oakland police investigator reported that during an interview at the hospital, Byron Williams “stated that his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU.”
Williams talked to a reporter who confirms that Glenn Beck was his inspiration.

Beck won’t ever be accountable for incitement of violence. Is there anything we can do?

Lou Dobbs, Hypocrisy and Corporate Power

By: Thursday October 7, 2010 8:09 am

Lou Dobbs employed undocumented immigrants at the same time he railed against them. Disgusting, but not surprising.

Progressive “One Nation” Event a Bit Disappointing, We Didn’t March

By: Sunday October 3, 2010 4:17 pm

This rally provided group therapy for community organizers and Obama supporters looking for a way to reaffirm their dedication to hope and change. It was not only a chance to unify around the need for jobs, education, environmental protections and clean energy, immigrant rights, college affordability, etc. but also a chance to reclaim history…

Glenn Beck & The Tea Party: “Our Children Will Be Sold as Slaves to China”

By: Tuesday September 21, 2010 4:56 am

Glenn Beck, saving American Children, one child at a time:

Atheist-Bashing in High Gear; Rabbi Lapin Calls Atheists ‘Parasites’, Talked of Spilling Blood, While the Pope Blames Us for the Holocaust

By: Monday September 20, 2010 10:17 pm

Religious figures really can get away with saying anything about Atheists, can’t they?

Boehner Compromise on Bush Tax Cuts and Nutty Newt Gingrich

By: Tuesday September 14, 2010 11:35 am

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010. Boehner comes to Bush Tax Cut compromise, Gingrich done got crazier, and a record Saudi arms deal.

Comparing Glenn Beck and Krusty the Clown

By: Tuesday September 14, 2010 8:53 am

“do you ever wonder if Glenn Beck would be a good voice over [for] krusty,” asked by amacntexas via YouTube.

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