FORMER ABC NEWS EXEC SAYS FOX NEWS REFLECTS MURDOCH'S POLITICS

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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 extent that isn't true anywhere else in American journalism." Westin was interviewed by the Times in connection with last week's charges by a former Fox News producer that the staff of the news channel is under constant pressure to conform to the political views of Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes. Westin observed: "Roger runs the place with an iron hand, and he was put in place there by Murdoch, who selected him for his politics."