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Michael Wolff's Calm, Reasoned Analysis Of MySpace, And The "Cretins" That Flock To It
Part of writing my latest column required interviewing Michael Wolff, a friend and the author of the new Rupert Murdoch bio "The Man Who Owns The News." After some negotiation, the interview took the form of a lengthy discussion-cum-argument. Sort...
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Michael Wolff: MySpace And Its Braindead Users Are Going To Zero
Silicon Alley Insider — ... BusinessWeek's Jon Fine takes Rupert Murdoch tell-all author Michael Wolff out for dinner. Michael then reveals the secret he didn't put into the book: why Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) is trying so hard to ditch MySpace: ...

Why MySpace is Monetizing So Quickly: They’re Dying Fast
SocialTimes.com — ... At least that’s what Michael Wolff, author of the Rupert Murdoch biography, “The Man Who Owns The News,” suggests. In a conversation with Jon Fine of BusinessWeek, Michael Wolff expresses his disdain for MySpace and suggests that News Corp executives are shaking in their boots. The company is according to Wolff, “looking at is the distinct possibility that it can go down to nothing.” ...

Just How Stupid And Poor Are MySpace Users, Exactly? A Look At The Data
TechCrunch — ... yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says: ...

Why does Facebook make News Corp. quake in its boots?
VentureBeat — ... Wolff goes into more detail about this classist idea in an interview with BusinessWeek’s Jon Fine, excerpted below, ...

Michael Wolff Has Been Trash-Talking the Internet Since 1998–See the Video!
BoomTown — Ah, Michael Wolff! Always throwing stinkbombs and making deliciously wackadoo declarations about the Internet. This time, it’s in a dinner interview the author had with BusinessWeek’s media columnist Jon Fine recently. Wolff (pictured here) slaps around the News Corp. (NWS) social networking site MySpace, with a series of his trash-buckling phrases, some of which are true and some a bit more of a stretch. But he sure is entertaining! One of Wolff’s more controversial moments: “If you’re on ...

Murdoch biographer: MySpace is for '(expletive) cretins'
The Social — ... Michael Wolff, whose new, lascivious Rupert Murdoch bio The Man Who Owns The News has taken the New York media industry by storm, stirred up some social-networking class warfare in an interview Monday with BusinessWeek's Jon Fine. ...

Wolff: MySpace Users Are "Backwards People"
Tech Observer — ... "If you're on MySpace now, you're a [expletive] cretin," Wolff tells Jon Fine. "And you're not only a [expletive] cretin, but you're poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people." ...

Quote of the Day: Michael Wolff on MySpace's Audience
ClickZ News Blog — "…If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people." -Michael Wolff, author of new Rupert Murdoch biography “The Man Who Owns The News," in an interview with Jon Fine.

News Bits: MySpace Users Are 'Poor Cretins'
Contentinople: — ... ) book on Rupert Murdoch, which is released today, author Michael Wolff finally got around to revealing something juicy in an interview with ...

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