Biden Campaign Spending "Quite Substantially" on Fox News Ads, Lachlan Murdoch Says

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaM. Night Shyamalan, the director of “The Sixth Sense” and “Glass,” is teaming with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ campaign on a filmmaking contest designed to help get out the vote.The campaign is reaching out to would be Spielbergs to submit a 90 second-long short film about casting their ballot in the upcoming national election.

Fox News' Chris Wallace was excoriated on social media by right-wing pundits, including former and current colleagues at the network, for his performance moderating the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Tuesday night.

Axios, blasted Facebook as “the nation’s foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process.”In response, a Facebook rep told Axios the company has “rules in place to protect the integrity of the election and free expression, and we will continue to apply them impartially.”This wasn’t the first time Biden has gone after Facebook.

Naman Ramachandran A report broadcast and published on Monday by the U.K.’s Channel 4 News alleges that 3.5 million Black American voters were targeted with TV and Facebook ads by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to deter them from going to the polls.

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA grandson of Marvin Davis, the onetime owner of 20th Century Fox, is embroiled in a family dispute over an investment in Palantir Technologies, which is due to go public next week.Davis, a Denver oil wildcatter, bought 20th Century Fox in 1981 and later sold it to Rupert Murdoch. He died in 2004.

The success of Netflix's AOC documentary Knock Down the House has indie distributors looking for other political campaign films with progressive candidates facing insurmountable odds against them. So Gravitas Ventures has picked up the North American rights to Brittany Huckabee’s documentary feature How To Fix A Primary, about a young doctor, Abdul El-Sayed, challenging to become the country's first Muslim governor in Michigan.

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forgo salaries through September in order to help the company weather the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorFox CEO Lachlan Murdoch’s compensation totaled $29.15 million for the fiscal year ended in June — down sharply from $42.11 million the year before.His dad, chairman Rupert Murdoch, took home $33.98 million, also below the $42.16 million for Fox’s fiscal 2019, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The dip is due in part to the executives voluntarily agreeing to forgo 100% of their base salaries from May 1 through

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRupert and Lachlan Murdoch, the overseers of the Fox Corp.

Hudson Mohawke‘s track ‘Chimes’ has been used as the soundtrack to a new Joe Biden campaign video – you can watch it below.Lifted from the Scottish producer’s 2014 EP of the same name, the song plays over footage of the Democratic presidential frontrunner as a number of his high-profile supporters urge viewers to vote.The clip was posted to Biden’s official Twitter profile yesterday (September 22) to mark National Voter Registration Day, and was subsequently brought to the attention of HudMo by

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorViewers who tune in tonight to see the TV industry’s Emmy Awards no doubt expect to encounter celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel, Mindy Kaling, Anthony Anderson and Sterling K. Brown.

Ted Johnson Joe Biden’s town hall on CNN drew 3.3 million viewers, an uptick for the network but short of audience that watched Donald Trump’s rally on Fox News later in the evening.Biden’s town hall drew more viewers than MSNBC during the time frame of 8 PM ET to 9:15 PM ET. MSNBC had just over 2 million viewers.

Also Read: Cable News Ratings: Fox News' Afternoon Show 'The Five' Beats CNN, MSNBC PrimetimeAt that time, MSNBC saw 2.048 million total average viewers and 352,000 demo viewers.When the town hall concluded at 9:15, CNN switched over to “Cuomo Prime Time.” Fox News alternated between President Donald Trump’s Wisconsin rally during “Hannity,” with Sean Hannity cuting in periodically to offer commentary.

Janet W. Lee Kesha, Anthony Hamilton, Los Lobos and more will perform in the Biden for President campaign’s new online concert series.The campaign announced that “Team Joe Sings” will launch Sept.

Succession may have been inspired by a real-life media empire, but there’s more drama packed into this HBO series than could ever appear on reality TV.Since it premiered in June 2018, fans have been drawn into the ins and outs of the Roy family as they battle for power at Waystar Royco, a fictional equivalent to Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp.

are weedy, but mostly apply to advertising: if a station sells ad time or offers time to a candidate, the station also has to offer the same level of access to other qualified candidates.When Doocy mentioned Fox News hadn’t committed to the weekly Trump chats, Kilmeade looked visibly surprised, making a face and then looking off-camera.Watch the “Fox & Friends” exchange above, via Fox News.

Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and the women who play them on Saturday Night Live have raised more than $6 million for the Biden campaign in a Monday fundraiser. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, says 100,000 people were on the Monday evening fundraiser, which featured Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph.