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Murdoch Apologizes for 'Jewish-Owned Media' Tweet
Arutz Sheva ^ | 19/11/12

Posted on 11/19/2012 2:45:54 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Founder and chief executive of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, apologized for posting a message on Twitter slamming the "Jewish owned press" for its anti Israel coverage of the Gaza conflict.

Murdoch reportedly received angry responses to his tweet, which asked: "Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?"

"Middle East ready to boil over any day. Israel position precarious. Meanwhile watch CNN and AP bias to point of embarrassment," Murdoch wrote in a second tweet in support of the Jewish state.

Due to negative backlash, the media mogul tweeted an apology ...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: apologized; jewishowned; rupertmurdoch; tweet
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Rupert, you shouldn't have apologized. There is a "Jewish-owned media" and it is ridiculously anti-Israel, and it is madness. Why apologize for saying the truth? I'm Jewish and I agree with that, despite its bizarre similarity to anti-Semitic rants. That's not what you meant, and anyone with half a brain can understand that, unless he's studiously trying to misconstrue.
1 posted on 11/19/2012 2:46:03 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

If you consider what he said, it sounds like a PRO-Semitic comment to me. Which evidently angered all those liberal, self-hating, anti-semitic Jews.


2 posted on 11/19/2012 2:50:40 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Eleutheria5

We have many Jewish friends. None of them support Israel in the middle east and it puzzles us because we (Wife and I) support Israel. No one ever explains it, either. They change the subject.


3 posted on 11/19/2012 2:51:27 PM PST by Rapscallion ( OBAMA: You own it now. See if you can govern it.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The apology should have said something like: “I’m sorry that media outlets owned by self-loathing Jews, are so anti-Israel”.


4 posted on 11/19/2012 2:52:13 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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We have a name for people like that, they are called “Self hating Jews” Jews who hate their own faith..I have family in Israel, having to hide in bunkers because these terrorist scum keep on throwing rocket after rocket at them


5 posted on 11/19/2012 2:54:41 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Cicero

Well, Rupert, I liked it.


6 posted on 11/19/2012 2:55:51 PM PST by combat_boots (I lost my tagline somewhere......)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Followed by a list of the outlets to which he was referring in order of egregiosity, the NYT topping it.


7 posted on 11/19/2012 2:55:51 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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I remain unconvinced that Jews own the media.

Now, lets say I’m wrong. What would that indicate other than that they were smart business people, had applied themselves, and done exactly what we want people to do in our society.

The whole premise is a loser argument from a-z.

I’m not talking about the forum here, but do we as a people believe in free enterprise or not? Murdock should. He’s been exercising that right for decades.


8 posted on 11/19/2012 2:59:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and 48 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: Rapscallion
We have many Jewish friends. None of them support Israel in the middle east and it puzzles us because we (Wife and I) support Israel. No one ever explains it, either. They change the subject.

When I was younger, I never owned my part-Irish heritage because of the terrorist fighting in Northern Ireland. I didn't know enough about the issues to understand what was going on, so I disavowed the whole thing. Perhaps many American Jews are the same way -- they are ethnically Jews, but do not practice the Jewish religion and do not feel any obligation to be stereotyped into taking sides into a war zone. I'm not saying this is good or bad; just sayin.'

9 posted on 11/19/2012 3:02:36 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Not only no, but HELL NO we will NOT moderate our stance."-- Jim Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5

I thought the Times was owned by an Episcopalian.


10 posted on 11/19/2012 3:03:44 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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I thought the Jesuits owned them, and the Jews were their front men.....


11 posted on 11/19/2012 3:11:42 PM PST by nevermorelenore
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To: Eleutheria5

You have superbly stated his case. This is the first I’ve read about his tweet, but I know precisely what he meant and I concur. The NYT is a sterling example.


12 posted on 11/19/2012 3:13:58 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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We have a name for people like that, they are called “Self hating Jews” Jews who hate their own faith.

Those people make me sick. They're almost always truly obnoxious, just like all godless haters.

13 posted on 11/19/2012 3:18:32 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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Creepy Pinch was raised as an Episcopalian not as a Jew.


14 posted on 11/19/2012 3:21:41 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

what’s black is white and what’s white is black.....


15 posted on 11/19/2012 3:26:24 PM PST by nevermorelenore
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To: Eleutheria5

..some bowed to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image, some chose the fiery furnace—you decide who was the true children of Israel...


16 posted on 11/19/2012 3:27:44 PM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: DoughtyOne
As a media baron himself, Murdoch is well aware that Jews do not own all the media. He was clearly referring to a small number of specific Jews, and the media outlets they own.

Surely, you are not trying to deny that some Jews own some media outlets. Would you agree that some of these outlets have an anti-Israel bias?
17 posted on 11/19/2012 3:32:39 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: nevermorelenore; miss marmelstein

It’s the Freemasons, I tells ya...


18 posted on 11/19/2012 3:38:31 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: onyx

You see many of them, like Roseanne Barr and others who despise their own religion..if they actually went to Israel and lived life under constant rocket fire and being surrounded by countries who want them dead maybe they would think differently..these are the same Jews who vote Democrat because they could give a rats behind about Israel..the same ones who can witness the DNC boo Israel and not even care


19 posted on 11/19/2012 3:42:07 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Eleutheria5

Rupert just smacked down the JINO population. haha! They had it coming.


20 posted on 11/19/2012 3:45:03 PM PST by Viennacon
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