TURNER AND MURDOCH CLASH OVER IRAQ
Monday, February 10 2003
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Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch, media moguls who are polar opposites politically, voiced contrary positions over the impending war with Iraq over the weekend. Interviewed by the Toronto Globe and Mail in Washington, Turner said that the war would represent "the high-tech wealthy Western nation against the Third World country; it's kind of a foregone conclusion that we'll win. It's a question of how many civilians get killed over there -- that's what worries me. We're trying to get one man, right? And we're going to kill tens of thousands of people to get him. It seems like a pretty inefficient way to do things." Meanwhile, Murdoch, in an interview with the Australian news weekly The Bulletin, voiced staunch support for U.S. policy on Iraq. "Oh, I believe Bush is right," he told the magazine. "We can't back down now. I think Bush is acting very morally, very correctly, and I think he is going to go on with it." Murdoch owns the Fox News Channel.
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