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The list of interested parties in the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise now reportedly includes News Corporation, the Rupert Murdoch-led media behemoth. (more)

LONDON (AP) — James Murdoch is being recalled for another grilling before Britain’s Parliament after former News Corp. executives raised serious doubts about his role in the country’s tabloid phone hacking scandal. (more)

London (CNN) – A 34-year-old man is under arrest in connection with a phone hacking scandal that engulfed Britain’s former News of the World newspaper, police in London said Friday. (more)

Television and film continue to be News Corp’s core area of sales growth, even as other aspects of Rupert Murdoch’s empire – including recently-sold MySpace and scandal-ridden News International – unsurprisingly had a bumpy Q4. (more)

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, according to a government official. (more)

Although some people would deny taking politically motivated pleasure from News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch’s turmoil, Lifetime reality show personality Roseanne Barr isn’t shying away from expressing her elation. (more)

News Corp. is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief executive officer to succeed Rupert Murdoch, people with knowledge of the situation said. (more)

President Barack Obama dragged News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch’s previous comments into his El Paso speech in order to bolster his case. (more)

Last year, it was announced that billionaire George Soros gave his first ever contribution to Media Matters, an organization that puts a specific emphasis on criticizing the Fox News Channel. Now we may know the reason why Soros has made this donation public. (more)

Yesterday, Rupert Murdoch and Apple made Murdoch’s new all-iPad publication The Daily available to the public for the first time. The announcement had all the usual hype, with Murdoch himself (and Apple Vice President Eddie Cue standing in for Steve Jobs) showing the demo to a New York audience. (more)

So, now that the Daily is out there, who is it for? Who will read this bold new experiment in journalism and why? (more)

Her fellow parents have described “Tiger Mother” Amy Chua’s child-rearing methods as “beyond extreme” and abusive, but Chua’s daughter Sophia is thankful for certain aspects of her strict upbringing. (more)

The launch of Rupert Murdoch’s eagerly anticipated iPad-only newspaper the Daily has been delayed by several weeks. (more)

In an exclusive interview published Wednesday in the New Statesman, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims that within the large encrypted ‘insurance’ file are documents damaging to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. (more)

Bill O’Reilly will have a sit down pre-Super Bowl interview with President Barack Obama. (more)

MySpace could use a few more friends of its own. The once-popular social networking site is not only likely to have a new owner by mid-year – or sooner, if News Corp. can find a buyer – but it’s also about to lose more than half of its current 1,100 employees before the end of the month. (more)

Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald may be widely acknowledged as America’s preeminent literary talents, but none of them have gotten down with The Situation in a hot tub. This is where Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi enters the equation. (more)

1.) Washington’s Funniest Celebrity tries new routine on ‘This Week’ — White House economic advisor and stand-up comic Austan Goolsbee told some really bad jokes yesterday on “This Week,” alleges David Frum. “I don’t see why anybody’s talking about playing chicken with the…with the debt ceiling.” Goolsbee said yesterday. Also: “If we hit the debt ceiling, that’s…essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history” and that it would “be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.” While the aforementioned superlative is debatable, the rest of Goolsbee’s claim is not. As David Frum points out, Goolsbee is jousting with windmills: Two weeks after the election, Rep. John Boehner said, “Whether we like it or not, the federal government has obligations and we have obligations on our part.” More likely, writes Frum, is that Obama is playing chicken not with debt, but with Americans’ confidence. That’s not funny at all. (more)

1.) Will Paul Ryan’s ‘Road Map’ remain trapped in the glovebox? — The ‘Road Map’ that Rep. Paul Ryan devised when he saw that America was lost in the fiscal woods has received plenty of kudos over the years. Now that Republicans control the house, the bigger question is, Will anybody use it? “Passing the Road Map as part of the House budget would likely go nowhere in the Senate and would undoubtedly draw the president’s veto even if it made it to his desk,” writes The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward. “But it would be a conscious decision by Republicans to do more than say no to Obama’s plan, moving beyond mere opposition to advocating a vision of their own.” Reps John Boehner and Eric Cantor refused to comment when TheDC asked about the Road Map’s role in restoring America’s fiscal sensibilities. Doug Mainwaring, a Maryland Tea Party activist, was less reserved: “If the Republican leadership doesn’t get behind Mr. Ryan and actively promote the Road Map, I predict that Tea Partiers will be looking for a new crop of congressmen in 2012.” (more)

Rupert Murdoch faces plenty of attacks from the left in the United States for his ownership of Fox News. However, those attacks pale in comparison to what he faces in the United Kingdom. (more)