Will there be any news organization we can depend on? The corruption of our government and news media is sickening.
Any change in Fox News’ format would render them worthless like all of their counterparts. People want truth, and Fox is the most profitable BECAUSE they’re the only ones reporting truthfully. Anything less or different would be suicide for Fox. Is Murdock’s son suicidal?
If you owned Fox where would you put your Mideast headquarters? Where was their Mideast headquarters before?
what a pantload
What is Wife Wendi’s role in all this?
After all, she is a very practical Chinese businesswoman.
Fox can crash and burn rather quickly if there most loyal viewing base - the conservative majority drop them like a hat. I basically tuned out for a couple years from 2005 to 2007 because of their horrific cheer leading of Kerry in 2004...praising his performances in the convention and debates. I felt they over-accommodated to criticism of being biased. In addition, I grew tired of tv media in general after Katrina and the manufactured attacks on President Bush. I tuned back in during the 2008 election cycle and have remained since, but I will turn it off again if I see this trend continue. I personally am not convinced yet, but it will become apparent if they repeatedly spin things to the muslim world view.
I work for a company in which the aging father is turning things over to his son. A more arrogant megalomaniacal idiot you will never find than his idiot son. I’m just saying anything is possible. Never expect the second generation to respect the achievements of the generation that preceded it.
I also have some concerns about this. But not much we can do about it. Another factor is that the children of successful men like Murdoch only rarely are capable of repeating their father’s success.
Roger Ailes has a proven record of bringing in viewers and money for Fox, which goes beyond politics and ideology. But will Murdoch’s heirs understand that?
I’ve never believed that Rupert was conservative. I think that if all of the major networks had a bias towards Republicans then Rupert would broadcast far left-tilted programming because the underserved market is the easiest way to make money. At this point Rupert has a monopoly over the viewing habits of half of the population while the other countless networks split the other half.
Hey, Fox News reporting at the top of the hour on radio is pure AP trash.
Fox is not conservative. Fox just doesn’t hate America.
Well I guess that we can stop watching Fox just like we stopped watching NBCCBSABCCNN. There are still places where we can hear the truth like Rush and the Internet!
Regardless of any influence by the Saudis or the junior Murdoch, the basic point still remains: We need an alternative to FNC! We cannot put all our eggs in one basket - especially considering the age of the senior Murdoch.
There is no point in worrying about what might happen. FNC has been in an extended golden age. Should that end, something else will fill the vacuum.
Fox News has at least as many liberals as conservatives on staff. O’Reilly goes out of his way to say that he is not conservative. Sheppard Smith is a liberal, as are a lot more of them at Fox.
O’Reilly is “green” and anti-gun. He is very sneaky about his liberal views. Sean Hannity is conservative. Charles Krauthammer articulates conservative views better than everybody else.
Time to tell William Katz’s doctors that he needs more thorazine. The Murdochs are in the business of making money. The last thing their going to do is mess with their ginormous ratings.
About the author, Willaim Katz
William Katz has, during an extensive career, been an intern for a U.S. senator; an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency; an assistant to Herman Kahn, the nuclear-war theorist; an editor at The New York Times Magazine; a comedy writer for Bob Newhart; an interviewer for The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson; and the author of ten novels published in many languages. A number of his books have been sold to Hollywood, about which nothing more need be said.
What do politics, the CIA, journalism, comedy writing, fiction, and Hollywood have to do with each other? Think about it.
In addition to running Urgent Agenda, William Katz actively blogs at Power Line. He’s a graduate of the University of Chicago and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
He is married, with two daughters, neither of whom agrees with him.
I hope FOX doesn’t go too far Muslim and put their women in burkas.
I posted this on another thread on this subject. Walid Shoebat has said that he, Brigitte Gabriel and Robert Spencer are no longer receiving invitations to appear on Fox News. Of Course, they are critics of Islam, but did appear on Fox fairly often in the past.
I haven’t watched Fox enough recently to know if they still appear periodically or not (also, Steve Emerson). But if Fox is getting pressure from Arab shareholders or the Murdoch son, then some suppression of criticism of Islam would be a logical and easy place to start. The Muslims definitely do not like to hear criticism, and are very active in trying to suppress it and label any critics as Islamophobes.
That will be something to watch, and probably one of the first indicators if there are attempts to suppress the free reporting on Fox.