Posted on 03/11/2010 4:47:56 PM PST by kingattax
It’s official now. This explains a lot of what’s happened recently. Rupert Murdoch is moving his NewsCorp headquarters to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. You can kiss fair and balanced FoxNews good-bye.
Breitbart has the story here:
“News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday that the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi is to become the headquarters of his global media empire in the Middle East.
Addressing some 400 delegates at the opening of the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Murdoch said his corporation had started out as a small Australian firm to become a US-based international company that employs 64,000 people.
“I have every confidence that Arab companies can do the same and more. I also believe that Abu Dhabi can lead the way.” Murdoch said News Corp would headquarter its Middle Eastern global online advertising operations in Abu Dhabi, and move a number of satellite television channels to the capital of the United Arab Emirates from Hong Kong.
“We will (also) establish a production office here for one of our documentary film-making companies,” he said.
“When we look to the future, News Corporation is betting on the creative potential of the more than 335 million people who make up the Arab world,” he added.
Organised by the Abu Dhabi government, the three-day summit is expected to address the potential of the emerging media markets in the Middle East, India and China.
Mohammed Khalaf al-Mazruei, who heads the Abu Dhabi Media Company, told delegates that “the Middle East is experiencing radical change,” and that its media should “accompany this revolution.”
News Corp has already established strong links with the region, last month agreeing to invest 70 million dollars in the Rotana Group, which is controlled by Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, after buying a 9.0 percent stake in the firm.
Alwaleed’s Kingdom holding company also owns around 7.0 percent of News Corp’s class B common stock.
How comforting that is for all of us who once looked to FoxNews as the last bastion of conservative television news and comment.
Looks like we are down to Free Republic to have a free expression of information and ideas.
No more criticism of Muslims will be tolerated,I suppose.
I think a company can get some real deals leasing office space in Abby Dabby right about now.
Free Bonus: the furnishings, equipment, and indentured SE Asian staff that were left when the lights got turned out.
Will there be foot showers and calls to prayer during the work day at Fox?
Here's the scorecard. If you are not a certified 100% Bible thumping conservative, you don't get a good rating.
Rush: Good, Hannity: Good, O'Reilly: Bad, Beck: Bad, Savage: Bad, Levine: Bad.
Another NY taxpayer lost due to stupid liberals.
Out of the blue you spam an attack on Christian freepers, weird man.
Grateful to him for that.
Taxed out of the Country by the commies.
Pray for America’s Freedom
“Here’s the scorecard. If you are not a certified 100% Bible thumping conservative, you don’t get a good rating.
Rush: Good, Hannity: Good, O’Reilly: Bad, Beck: Bad, Savage: Bad, Levine: Bad.”
As a proud Bible thunmper, I resent your attitude. You could not be more incorrect. Check yourself.
“Taxed out of the Country by the commies.”
Which country?
Commies or terrorists, not much difference
If this is true, my qwestion is, why would Murdoch do this when FOX NEWS has been so successful in this country? Did the Arabs buy him? Where will Beck, Hannity, etal go? O’Reily I wouldn’t miss.
I, too, am grateful that he did it, but I do not think he did it out of the goodness of his heart, or on principle, because he hasn’t any. He did it because he saw a way to make money that no one in our country had exploited.
You have been here for 5 years and find that surprising?
LOL! A little levity never hurts.
Please tell me where I am incorrect?
*PING*
Just my observation watching the lies posted slamming O'Reilly, Beck, Levine, Savage .....
And I was not slamming Christians. I was slamming those radical fundamentalists that believe the earth is only 6000 years old.
........Where will Beck, Hannity, etal go? ......
They are all his creations. He hired Roger Ailes to find and develop this talent.
He sent Glen Beck to California to mine his Movietone archives for the footage used tonite on his show and the up and coming special. He uses all his assets in a very synergistic manner. He carried out a full scale attack on FDR using that old footage.
Freepers are extremely biased and completely unable to understand the real world That bias must be disregarded
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