It looks as though Saudi princes may now be buying their way into the good graces of news organizations — or at least into Rupert Murdoch’s FOX “News” channel and other Murdoch-owned outlets as reported by FrontPage Magazine, a rightwing website:
In early September 2005, Bin Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp. This made the Fifth richest man on the Forbes World’s Richest People, the fourth largest voting shareholder in News Corp., the parent of Fox News. News Corp. is the world’s leading newspaper publisher in English. It operates more than 175 newspapers, in the UK, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the US, and distributes more than 40 million papers per week.
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Covering the riots in Paris last November, Fox ran a banner saying: “Muslim riots.” Bin Talal was not happy. “I picked up the phone and called Murdoch… (and told him) these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty,” he said. “Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.”
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If indeed he was successful changing FOX NEWS’ reports of the Paris riots, he got a big bang for his bucks.
(Hat tip RAW STORY)
Let’s see…. The U.S. military pays Iraqi journalists to print favorable stories about the U.S. And now a Saudi Muslim pays a big chunk of cash to make sure the Murdoch noise machine prints favorable stories about Islam. If this weren’t so evil, it would be funny. It’s sorta like a modern version of a ‘60s Hippie commune where everybody’s zoomin’ everybody else. The difference—and this is why it is definitely not funny—is that in this case the only ones getting their jollies are the rich and powerful. Innocent citizens all over the planet are being mind-fucked without even realizing it. Evil. Dangerous.
So, Middle-Eastern papers say America is great and Western media say Muslims are okay. Hmm, so why are we fighting.
"Can’t we all just get along." — Rodney King
Never seen such a racist twaddle in the name of journalism, evidently these days it is an accepted term of reference to write Islam…….. (and fill as hate takes), the point in the article is about Faux being made to tone down its rabid sectarianism, which evidently now is an accepted norm of conduct, while Saudi financier is condemned for his influence on this policy. Only in America ha?
In other words while all the proprietors, are pushing their own agenda, coz as we all know freedom of the press means you are free to won one, this guy ringing and objecting becomes to be the end of the world for free journalism that brought us the sleep over Judith Miller, and Jeff Gannon, et al.
Oh well, so long as the Jews are not impugned then its is not racist!
Through the Looking Glass.
While it is not wrong to email or call a news corporation to congratulate or criticize them concerning a story, it is wrong to do so for propaganda purposes.
The only valid reason to congratulate or criticize the news media’s reporting of a story in the press is to further the practice of true and accurate news reporting.
I don’t think the French riots were Islamic, Christian, Jewish, or any other religion. They were the misguided energies of youth who felt disenfranchised.
That was the failure of the French society, and the government of France is a prime suspect.