Megyn Kelly
Nabela Noor
Prince Al-Waleed
Posted on 01/28/2016 7:59:52 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
...Snopes points out that “A Saudi prince owns a minority share of Twenty-First Century Fox, the parent corporation of Fox News, via an investment firm,†but is not a “co-owner†of Fox News, and Kelly never posed for a photo with him.
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If The Prophet Donald (PBUH) says 0.01% buys total control, then it is so. Sweep across the plains, driving the infidels before you in the name of Donald! In 837 AD, an ancestor of Megyn Kelly (May She Bleed Forever!) insulted an ancestor of The Prophet. For this, Fox News must be destroyed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal
” In 2010, Alwaleed’s stake in News Corp. was about 7 percent, amounting to $3 billion. In 2013, News Corp. had a $175 million (19 percent) investment in Al-Waleed’s Rotana Group, the Arab world’s largest entertainment company.”
@realDonaldTrump @BradCross4 @Drudge_Report_ You have been on FOX News 133 times (regardless that this is FAKE) you obvi didn't care before.— sarainitaly (@sarainitaly) January 28, 2016
Which part is fake?
The fact that the saudi prince owns enough newscorp stock to get a seat on the Board of Directors?
That he’s openly bragged about changing Fox reporting guidelines?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/12/newscorporation.rupertmurdoch
“Fox News was ordered to alter its coverage of the riots in France after a Saudi prince with shares in its parent company News Corporation complained to Rupert Murdoch.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul aziz Al-Saud told a conference in Dubai he had telephoned Mr Murdoch after seeing a strapline on the news channel describing the disturbances as “Muslim riots”.
“I picked up the phone and called Murdoch and said that I was speaking not as a shareholder, but as a viewer of Fox. I said that these are not Muslim riots, they are riots,” Campaign Middle East magazine quoted the prince as saying.
“He investigated the matter and called Fox and within half an hour it was changed from ‘Muslim riots’ to ‘civil riots’.”
The prince said his intervention had been an example of how Muslim people can change the portrayal of their religion in the western media”
Both Snopes.com and PolitiFact reported that the ownership claim wasn't true, but the billionaire Saudi prince's investment company owns a smaller amount of 21st Century Fox.
Donald is like Dan Rather... you know... the pic was fake but accurate.
Fact: The saudi prince owns enough newscorp stock to make a phonecall and change Fox news reporting guidelines.
Unless you think the prince is telling a lie on himself?
From the Guardian article:
“It is not the first time he has admitted to trying to influence Mr Murdoch’s coverage of sensitive issues.
In a recent Financial Times interview the prince said he did not wish to “intrude” into the management of companies in which he holds shares.”
Megyn Kelly
Nabela Noor
Prince Al-Waleed
I’d wager that my fidelity funds have some portion in 21st century fox. Can I get a Megyn to join me for a photo?
;-)
I sent it to snopes and they never got back to me.
“Alwaleed owns the largest chunk of News Corp. stock outside the Murdoch family. Shortly after his purchase of 5.5 percent of News Corp. voting shares in 2005, Alwaleed gave a speech that made it clear just what he had bought. As noted in The (U.K.) Guardian, Alwaleed told an audience in Dubai that it took just one phone call to Rupert Murdoch — “speaking not as a shareholder but as a viewer,” Alwaleed said — to get the Fox News crawl reporting “Muslim riots” in France changed to “civil riots.””
The term "co-owner" generally refers to a person who holds a 50% share in a business entity, or at least a share comparable to that of the other largest stakeholders, but Al-Waleed does not qualify on either count. According to news accounts, Prince Al-Waleed's investment firm, Kingdom Holding Company, holds a 6.6% stake in 21st Century Fox, the parent corporation of the Fox News Group (which includes the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network) — a sizable chunk, but far from a controlling or co-controlling interest in the company.
6.6% gets you a seat on the board of directors.
And apparently the power to call the CEO and demand reporting guidelines change to suit your own desires.
LOL
It’s a very cozy relationship. They’re hardly strangers who only see each other at annual society functions.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/08/16/news-corp-the-saudi-prince-and-the-ground-zero-mosque/
silly girl
Irrelevant to the discussion of who owns NewsCorp stock now or has owned enough to brag about directly influencing reporting guidelines.
The prince himself has bragged about ‘making a phone call’ and altering reporting guidelines within an HOUR.
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