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FORMER ABC NEWS EXEC SAYS FOX NEWS REFLECTS MURDOCH'S POLITICS Monday, November 3 2003 The onetime producer of ABC's primetime news programs has accused the Fox News Channel of being a reflection of Rupert Murdoch's conservative print publications. In an interview appearing in Saturday's Los Angeles Times, Av Westin, who is now the executive director of the National Television Academy, said that Murdoch's politics are even registered in "the uniform smirks and body language" of the Fox News reporters and that the owner's bias permeates the news "to an (more) MURDOCH ORDERED BUSH INTERVIEW ON FOX, REPORT CLAIMS Wednesday, September 17 2003 News Corp executives telephoned program managers at the Fox TV network and informed them that Chairman Rupert Murdoch wanted them to find time in their schedule for an interview with President Bush by Fox News Channel's Brit Hume, the Washington Post Reported today (Wednesday), citing Fox sources. Murdoch's request reportedly resulted in the shifting of next Monday's edition of Performing As, in which amateurs attempt to imitate celebrity entertainers, to a later hour and Paradise (more) |
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One day after announcing plans to move News Corp's official home country of incorporation from Australia to the U.S., Rupert Murdoch told an Australian interviewer that he is backing George W. Bush for reelection. Murdoch, whose media company owns the New York Post and the Fox News cable network, among other holdings, said that the U.S. electorate "completely" backs the president on his handling of the Iraq war and the U.S. economy. "He's going to walk it in," he said in an interview with Sydney radio station 2GB. Murdoch's British newspapers also backed Tony Blair in 1997 and were regarded as a major factor in his victory.
