Reply #6: Since Murdoch owns Fox, he "revs up his hate" quite a bit in the US [View All]

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but the Sunday Times supposedly has editorial autonomy, by virtue of the contract he bought it under (along with The (London) Times).

Mostly it is a RW paper, but it has been commendable in leading the pack on the "Downing Street Memo" revelations. I sincerely doubt that Murdoch is owed any of the credit for that. Just how much he keeps his hands off the paper's stories has been questioned, but I just can't see him actually pushing the DSM line and at the same time taking Fox in the direction it has gone (where there is no contractually based editorial independence) unless for some barely conceivable sales-driven motive.