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MURDOCH, OWNER OF FOX NEWS, ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR BUSH Wednesday, April 7 2004 
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
(more)NEW NBC SPOKESMAN ONCE WORKED FOR BUSH, OVITZ Friday, April 2 2004 Anna Perez, who has the distinction of having once worked for President Bush and for Michael Ovitz, has become the chief spokesperson for NBC. Perez had also recently served as communications advisor to National security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Previously she held the post of head of media relations for Ovitz's Creative Artists Agency and followed her boss to Disney. "I love the television business," Perez told today's (Friday) New York Times. "I have no expertise (more) |
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A study by a video monitoring service for the Washington Post shows that the cable news networks have given President Bush more than three times as much coverage as John Kerry. Fox News exec John Moody told the newspaper: "There's a newsmaking bar both candidates have to pass, which is slightly lowered for an incumbent president who might be commenting on the day's events." CNN exec Sue Buda added: "There's a breaking-news quality to when the president speaks." But John Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter commented that Bush "is a candidate 100 percent of the time" and that the Kerry camp should receive equal time whenever the president appears on TV.
