Neil Chenoweth has a fascinating analysis of the overlap of Murdoch's tweets and business interests.
How to read Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter feed
t’s a micro-blog, and his 750-odd Tweets provide snapshots for what’s on Murdoch’s mind.
More specifically, his Tweets are a record of the last person that Murdoch has been talking to—it just gets recycled and blurted out. The tweets are also an indicator, for journalists who work for the most famously interventionist media proprietor on the planet, of just what the boss might be thinking about.
Put those two things together and you may glimpse the process where people gain Rupert Murdoch’s ear, and how that message can be re-broadcast around the world.
Chenoweth goes on to explain how Murdoch's tweets mirrow the internal power struggles of News Corp. You can always tell who is up and who is down, basically the last person who talked to Murdoch, not unlike a Renaissance royal court.
The Twitter feed also illuminates Murdoch's lifelong passion for making bad investments in mining companies.
On November 15 2010, Genie Energy Limited announced that Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild had bought a 5.5 per cent stake in its subsidiary, Genie Oil and Gas Inc (GOGAS), for $11 million, and were joining Dick Cheney on the GOGAS advisory board.
GOGAS has 50 per cent of Shale Oil LLC, which has up to 5000 acres of leases at Rifle Colorado containing 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
And on to Murdoch's investments in Israel:
GOGAS’s chief focus is Israel, where its 87 per cent owned in Israel Energy Iniatives Ltd (IEI) has oil shale leases in the Shfela Basin holding 40 billion barrels of oil equivalent. And if GOGAS’s US interest has led him to tweet about fracking there, what effect has the larger Israeli operations had on his thinking?
And on into the details of Murdoch's business dealings with some of the most extreme elements in Israeli society.