Fox CEO endorses Kerry?

[medeak]

Does anyone know anything about this? I thought Murdock owned Fox.. wtf?

News Corp. president backs John Kerry

According to the Kerry for President campaign, News Corp. President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. News Corp. owns Fox News Channel. That would put Chernin in the ranks of some other Kerry-supporting media executives, including Barry Diller, Kirk Kerkorian (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) and Harvey and Robert Weinstein, who backed the release of Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. The Chernin endorsement was among that of 200 business leaders announced Wendesday, with Chernin attending a Wall Street to Main Street summit held by Kerry in Iowa.

Source: Broadcasting & Cable http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA442501?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP

[JPJones]

1. He is the COO - it's a scam to prove they are 'balanced' nt

[NewHampshireDem]

2. Exactly .. eom

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I challenge anyone to prove that he has actually given money to Kerry, the DNC, or even a single democratic candidate for office.

[JPJones]

8. Campaign contributions

Chernin, Peter
New York, NY 10036
News Corporation/President COO MARKEY, EDWARD JOHN (D)
House (MA 7)
MARKEY FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE $1000 06/11/01

Chernin, Peter
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Fox Studios/Pres & CEO KERRY, JOHN F (D)
President
JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC. $2000 03/31/03

plus
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Beverly+Hills&st=CA&last=Chernin&first=Peter

plus
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=ENCINO&st=CA&last=Chernin&first=Peter

plus
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Los+Angeles&st=CA&last=Chernin&first=Peter

plus
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=SANTA+MONICA&st=CA&last=Chernin&first=Peter

[NewHampshireDem]

10. Good work ... I forgot to check newsmeat ... I checked opensecrets

and couldn't find it there.

That FOXPAC worries me, though. $10,000 is a lot of money.

[salin]

3. that would be my guess

[medeak]

4. googled him

called the "anti Murdock"

think you're right

Peter Chernin
News Corp.

He's the anti-Murdoch. Peter Chernin is a former book editor who worked his way up Hollywood's power chain as a TV producer for Showtime and eventually head of the Fox (FOX ) Broadcasting Co. And he can finesse things at News Corp. for his high-powered boss, Rupert Murdoch, like nobody's business.

[RodneyCK2]

6. Yeah, there was another thread here that mentioned him...

siding with Kerry on some issue. I still find it hard to believe. If it is true, really TRUE, then YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

[RodneyCK2]

5. The way Faux News operates leaves me very suspicious...

I mean they practically ousted everyone who was liberal biased. They also reward those that take the right-wing side and frown upon any liberal comments. This was all in the documentary "Outfoxed."

So, I find it very hard to believe there is actually a Democrat loving CEO in the mix.

[kestrel91316]

7. Betcha Chernin gets fired within a week.........................N/T

[medeak]

9. held fundraiser

on Fox property link goes on to say:

Chernin's fondness for Kerry is no secret. He held a fund-raiser for Kerry on the Fox studio lot earlier in the year.

[medeak]

11. too bizarre

I'm really freaked out...article goes on to say:

The move didn't appear to surprise News Corp. Chernin talked to Fox New Channel about the endorsement Wednesday. Appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto, he said he was not anti-Bush but explained why he thought News Corp. would benefit from a Kerry presidency.


"I think the two things that will be most important to News Corp is--one is education. We're a company where we don't manufacture anything. We depend on ideas. We essentially export ideas around the world and our ability to create those ideas is based on a highly educated creative workforce and so I think more than anything education is the thing that will be of greatest value to News Corp.

" I think the other thing is a real global focus, a focus on, you know, it's a world-wide market of 5 billion people, and I think the more this country looks outward and develops close relationships with economies and countries around the world, I think it creates bigger markets for our products and our ideas.

"This democracy is about making choices," he said, "and my choice is that I believe that Mr. Kerry can do a good job moving our economy forward."