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Tony
24th May 2010, 11:15 AM
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/10/right-rebels-foxnews/

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp — the parent company of Fox News — making him the largest shareholder outside the family of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Alwaleed has grown close with the Murdoch enterprise, recently endorsing James Murdoch to succeed his father and creating a content-sharing agreement with Fox News for his own media conglomerate, Rotana.

Last weekend, at the right-wing Constitutional Coalition’s annual conference in St. Louis, Joseph Farah, publisher of the far right WorldNetDaily, blasted Fox News for its relationship with Alwaleed. Farah noted correctly that Alwaleed had boasted in the past about forcing Fox News to change its content relating to its coverage of riots in Paris, and warned that such foreign ownership of American media is “really dangerous.”

The guy is a nut-case, but he is right (probably for the wrong reasons) about this issue.
Thunder
24th May 2010, 02:37 PM
Hitler liked trees and fresh air.
Walter Ego
24th May 2010, 07:14 PM
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/10/right-rebels-foxnews/


The guy is a nut-case, but he is right (probably for the wrong reasons) about this issue.

Sound like typical Abab bashing to me. bin Talal's minority interest in News Corp would not give him much influence within the company in any case.

Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal... is a member of the Saudi Royal Family. He is the nephew of the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah. An entrepreneur and international investor but without real political power within the House of Saud or in Saudi Arabia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal
INRM
24th May 2010, 09:01 PM
Do you think it's good to have media owned by foreign interests?
Chaos
25th May 2010, 02:27 AM
Do you think it's good to have media owned by foreign interests?

Do you think it´s good to have media owned by domestic interests?
MarkCorrigan
25th May 2010, 02:53 AM
Do you think it's good to have media owned by foreign interests?

Sorry, but where is Murdoch from again?
ponderingturtle
25th May 2010, 06:42 AM
Sorry, but where is Murdoch from again?

But he is properly white so not a true foreigner I guess or something.
Tony
25th May 2010, 06:44 AM
Do you think it's good to have media owned by foreign interests?

I don't mind foreign interests per se, but I do mind it when media is owned by interests that are antagonistic to liberal values and use their media ownership to promote their conservative and backwards agenda. It's no different than the Washington Times which is owned by the Unification Church.
Tsukasa Buddha
25th May 2010, 07:53 AM
Bah, this is all a side show to distract us from the joos!

Broken clock, twice a day and all.
MaGZ
25th May 2010, 05:34 PM
I don't mind foreign interests per se, but I do mind it when media is owned by interests that are antagonistic to liberal values and use their media ownership to promote their conservative and backwards agenda. It's no different than the Washington Times which is owned by the Unification Church.

The Washington Times is a CIA asset.
MarkCorrigan
27th May 2010, 02:25 AM
The Washington Times is a CIA asset.

If you weren't being serious you would be a brilliant satirist. As it is, it's just sad.
INRM
27th May 2010, 12:18 PM
Tony,

I don't mind foreign interests per se, but I do mind it when media is owned by interests that are antagonistic to liberal values and use their media ownership to promote their conservative and backwards agenda.

What good comes out of foreign interests wanting to own our media? Wouldn't they have a greater propensity to operate against American interests?

It's no different than the Washington Times which is owned by the Unification Church.

I'm not exactly sure what the Unification church's policies are, but suffice it to say if their interests are against the majority of the American people that's bad.
carlitos
27th May 2010, 12:23 PM
Sound like typical Arab bashing to me. bin Talal's minority interest in News Corp would not give him much influence within the company in any case.

In terms of minority interest, 7 percent is pretty big. At the least, he could probably get an 'observer' board seat, which would let him see if not influence the major decision-making process.