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To: illiac; wolfcreek; LucyT; Chaguito
O’Reily is owned by FOX who just sold out the Saudis who supposely put Obama through Harvard. What a wicked web we weave.

You have a BINGO here!

Saudi billionaire boasts of manipulating Fox News coverage

DECEMBER 7, 2005 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 (http://www.aim.org). The report raises the specter of Arab money influencing News Corporation and other U.S. media companies.  Liberal journalist Danny Schechter, a participant in the conference, reports that Al-waleed, who is a member of the Saudi Royal Family and investor in the Fox News parent company News Corporation, gave an interview boasting that he had called Fox to complain about coverage of the “Muslim riots” in France. He said he “called as a viewer” and “convinced them to change” the coverage because “they were not Muslim riots but riots against poverty and inequality.” And “they changed” the coverage, the Saudi reportedly said.  Another report on the comments, carried by the Dubai-based newspaper the Khaleej Times, says that Al-waleed personally called Rupert Murdoch to complain. The Saudi said, “After a short while, there was a change” in the coverage. An AIM call to Fox News asking for comment was not returned.

42 posted on 02/07/2010 12:05:48 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Meanwhile, Glen Beck shows up and is wrecking the other cable news channels and destroying the credibility of the One.

This is no accident. The man sees America in peril and is investing in Fox to counter the leftist MSM

most of this talk is chicken little alarmism


46 posted on 02/07/2010 12:13:04 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks f!or posting that


84 posted on 02/07/2010 6:47:56 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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Who Is Behind Quashing the Birth Certificate Issue?

O’Reily is owned by FOX who just sold out the Saudis who supposely put Obama through Harvard. What a wicked web we weave.

More at #42.

[Thanks, MamaDearest.]

129 posted on 02/08/2010 1:45:53 PM PST by LucyT
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To: MamaDearest; illiac; wolfcreek; LucyT; Chaguito

There has never been any neutral news outlet, they are all owned by BIG money behind them in a Global scheme, we are screwd, except for the new internet media, i.e. F.R. etc.!!!


173 posted on 02/09/2010 12:59:03 PM PST by danamco
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