Thursday, September 14, 2006

How "fair and balanced" is Fox News?
ACCURACY IN MEDIA: WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media (AIM) is urging a full inquiry into a report that a Saudi billionaire caused the Fox News Channel (FNC) to dramatically alter its coverage of the Muslim riots in France after he called the network to complain. The Saudi billionaire, Al-waleed bin Talal, is a friend of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch and controls an influential number of voting shares in the company.

"This report underscores the danger of giving foreign interests a significant financial stake in U.S. media companies," declared Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media.

The controversial comments came at an Arab media conference featuring representatives of Time magazine, USA Today, PBS, The Wall Street Journal, and other news organizations. The conference and the Saudi Prince's growing influence in News Corporation are among the subjects of a new December-A AIM Report that has just been posted at the AIM website (www.aim.org). The report raises the specter of Arab money influencing News Corporation and other U.S. media companies. Saudi Billionaire Boasts of Manipulating Fox News Coverage
Mark Alexander

6 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Does any sane person believe that financial investment in the media doesn't change the news coverage?

This war against the West is being waged on many different levels--not just by means of egregious jihadist attacks.

Eleanor © said...

Sickening and infuriating. Here is my blog entry on this subject from a few days ago.

Mark said...

Always, this 'love affair' with oil and the sale of armaments and other big buck deals with the oil-rich Muslim world are going to change the nature of the West out of all recognition. Our leaders are fools, as our top businessmen! All they see before them is profit.

Notice, however, how astute Muslims are! Their culture comes first - always. Arguably, democracy, based on capitalism as it is, has within it the seeds of its own destruction!

Mark said...

It is indeed sickening and infuriating. Your blog on the subject, by the way, makes for an interesting, if disturbing, read.

Anonymous said...

This report underlines the fact that money and power go hand in glove.
In my previous comment, I doubted whether Murdoch could be influenced, it seems that I am proved wrong.
Still we can vote with our eyes and pull down the Sky satellite dish!
Then we will see how much Murdoch values his customers over his investors.
Boycott is an effective non-violent weapon.
Think about it when you go out to get some milk or ciggies down the convenience store.
We have choices in life, and we have buying power.
Just as Danish goods were boycotted by Muslims, so too the supply of cash to these most sensitive of people could dry up.
This would have the cosequence of reversing their pitch to buy up swathes of property, thus the corpus of Europe will shake off these invasive tentacles.
I see parralels in the story about the rise of the Right in Angela Merkals N. East Europe.
They seem to have applied the modus operandi of the "invaders" and are doing what they do, ie, keepimg their monet revolving in a closed circuit, helping their own and shunning the "enemy."
Dangerous territory, maybe, but these are dangerous times.

Mark said...

Skywaycher:

Welcome, my friend! How interesting your comment is! I can only concur with it.