Murdoch: Fox News does not favour Bush

[cal04]

(this is too funny for words, do they ever tell the truth )

Rupert Murdoch has claimed his Fox News channel is not biased in favour of George Bush and that News Corporation, his global media empire, is a "fair and balanced" company.

Speaking at the company's annual general meeting in Adelaide, Mr Murdoch insisted Fox News' reporting was more balanced than that of other US networks. "It's full of Democrats and Republicans, the others only have Democrats. We don't take any position at all," Mr Murdoch said in response to a question about Fox's impartiality."We're not in the least bit biased, we're a fair and balanced company."

Mr Murdoch's comments will astonish critics of the notoriously right-wing television network, which was the subject of the controversial US documentary, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.The film, which accused Fox News of abandoning traditional reporting values and ushering in an era of partisan news coverage, has become a cult classic, topping Amazon.com's list of bestselling DVDs.

It alleges presenters are encouraged to accentuate points that might be helpful to the Bush administration, and includes a claim from one former Fox contributor covering news from Iraq that he was ordered to "keep it positive" and "emphasise all the good we're doing".But Mr Murdoch admitted News Corp newspapers, which include the New York Post as well as the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, had supported Mr Bush's foreign policy and said they would continue to do so.


http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1336212,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

[xultar]

1. [/insert] Crickets Chirping [\end] n/t

[BeatleBoot]

2. I just spit coffee all over my keyboard

just reading the title...

[Justice]

3. This just in

scientists conclude that the moon is really made of green cheese.

[greekspeak]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Thank you...this is a great joke to start the day off with. Fair and Balanced! That is a real knee slapper!!

[cal04]

6. I thought about that as a title "joke of the day" but

decided not to
agree!

[sisenor]

5. Yeah, now that Kerry is looking like the possible winner,

Murdoch is trying to look more "neutral."

[Dogmudgeon]

7. He's Right. It's Roger Ailes who favo(u)rs Bush

Roger Ailes was Ronald Reagan's press secretary and is a long-time Culture Warrior. His current job is running Mr. Murdoch's "news" operation.

Mr. Murdoch, on the other hand, is a five-dollar-whore with a billion-dollar wardrobe.

--bkl

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Yeah...FOX is just LOADED with Democrats--Alan Colmes

And I really wonder about Alan most of the time...

David

[Vickers]

9. Well, if he says so, it must be true.

The fact that he was wearing a t-shirt with the Bush Twins on it undercuts his protestation, however.

[OneTwentyoNine]

10. Fair and balanced,they employ phone predators and non phone predators..

After Bills phone escapades I've listened to him a couple of times on his radio show. Much,much more subdued than he used to be,this lawsuit is grabbing him by the nuts.

David

[Tsiyu]

11. And I'm Brittany Spears!

I've never said anything, but since we're into the "truthful" ( cough * sputter* cough*) confession.....

[auburngrad82]

12. Two words... MY ASS!

What a crock.

[billybob537]

13. If you believe this

you are not here at DU you are at faux news sucking up the KOOL AIDE!

[tom_paine]

14. Like the Nazi Media didn't favor Der Fuhrer

These are lies of equal hubris and magnitude.

EQUAL.

[Octafish]

15. And Fox's very own BFEE turd Roger Ailes never worked for Pruneface.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/ailesroger/ailesroger.htm

FUCK YOU, MURDOCH!

[King Coal]

16. So I am a millionaire. GREAT!

[Jacobin]

17. "This winter, Florida will be covered in 20 feet of snow"

Yes, it's true, because Faux said it.

[NewJeffCT]

18. Heck, even the Right Wing CMPA

The Right Wing media "watchdog" group CMPA even admits that Fox was biased, saying they ran 5 or 6 times more negative stories on Kerry than they did Bush.

[Maiden England]

19. how's the weather in cloud cookoo land Rupy???

[Arkana]

20. *dead silence, followed by pointing and side-splitting laughter*