Saudi prince brags: "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch"...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Buying Fox News
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 13, 2005

Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal boasted in Dubai earlier this week about his ability to change the news content that viewers around the world see on television.

In early September 2005, Bin Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp. This made the Fifth richest man on the Forbes World's Richest People, the fourth largest voting shareholder in News Corp., the parent of Fox News. News Corp. is the world's leading newspaper publisher in English. It operates more than 175 newspapers, in the UK, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the US, and distributes more than 40 million papers per week. In addition, News Corp. owns and operates an international collection of TV outlets, radio stations, magazines, book publishers and film studios.

After bin Talal purchased his voting shares in News Corp., on September 23, 2005, he stated in an advertising supplement to the New York Times, “When I invest in a group like CITICROUP, the Four Seasons, the News Corp. or Time Warner, my objective is not to manage those companies.” But this is not quite accurate, considering the Prince’s December 5, 2005 statement given to Middle East Online regarding his ability to change what viewers see on Fox News. Covering the riots in Paris last November, Fox ran a banner saying: "Muslim riots." Bin Talal was not happy. "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch... (and told him) these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty," he said. "Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots."

News Corp did not comment, but referred us to FOX NEWS, which responded with the following statement: “Over the course of our extensive coverage, it became clear that the Paris riots were caused by a number of different factors which we characterized in various ways as we continued to report the story and discover new information. In fact, one of our contributors, Father Morris, who was in Paris covering this story, was prominently on our air saying this was a cultural assimilation issue, not a religious one.”

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20490

[EFerrari]

1. So, Faux is with the terrorists?

:rofl:

[Loonman]

2. So Bill O'Reilly and Hannity are terrorist supporters by default

Sweet!

[AX10]

3. Alweed Bin Talal.....

His country (Saudi Arabia) is the chief sponsor of terrorists (Al-Quiada).
Why don't we hear more about that?

[rman]

4. FOX: report first, investigate later

(shoot first, ask questions later)

More importantly, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal shows us how it works: how the news is shaped by those who own the media corporations. The prince only owns only 5.46% of FOX, imagine what power Murdoch himself wields.

We can only wonder how often it is that owners/shareholders of a media corporation (or more accurately: a corporation that owns media corporations) direct news outlets on what they report. I'm not even going to start on the entanglement of corporations and politics.

[Al-CIAda]

5. AOL-TWX (Time Warner, CNN, etc) is owned by a prince of Saud as well.

They'll run commercials/PR on their stations at times as a payoff/hush money.

[rman]

6. So much for "them against us"

As Indira would say: "at *that* level... they work together".

btw: a belated welcome back.

[Al-CIAda]

7. Yes sir...and I kindly thank you. nt

[blm]

8. They own even MORE of CNN, folks, and these people needed Bush to stay

in power.

Freepers have no idea who they are really in bed with. Between Bush's dealings with the Saudis, RevMoon and the Chinese industrialists buying our country's debt, I really think Bush supporters commit treason every day they defend that Benedict Arnold Bush.

[rman]

9. Am i a citizen of the United States or the United Saudi States of America?

Saudis own (in whole or in part) many corporations that are either US based or operate in the US. Including one that makes a highly specialized kind of computer software that is used to manage business processes in large corporations, banks and many government agencies in the US. It is an advanced form of an older and perhaps more widely know software program that goes (or went) by the name of "Promis". This Saudi owned and financed corporation used to be called "Ptech", it has since be renamed to "Go Agile" (www.goagile.com). Several of these owners/financiers have ties to terrorism.

"When i went to Senator Grassley's office, i said to them, "Am i a citizen of the United States or the United Saudi States of America?"
And i said, "I am from ground zero, and if you don't like the way i'm going to be speaking, you can leave."
And two people got up and left.
I said that my trip, my Ptech journey, was a journey from the Whitey Bulger(* tent in Colorado to the White Tent in DC...
Somebody else left.

But, i believe that unless you throw this right in their face and speak very honestly, they will not get it that you know what is going on"."

-- Indira Singh, Wallstreet whistleblower, at 9-11 Citizens Commission.

*)
Whitey Bulger, a mobster and longtime FBI informant who disappeared from Boston 8 years ago.
www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey

full transcript of 9-11 Citizens Commission hearings
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:c1YAfIICFoIJ:www.justicefor911.org/September-Hearings.doc+whitey+bulger+singh+indira+&hl=en

Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group (DU)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

www.911busters.com/911-Commission.html

www.reopen911.org/freedvd.php

[cantstandbush]

10. Some of the wealthiest men in this country are among the most evil.

Murdoch is pure scum. You should have some of the builders of the DirecTV tell you how he booted them out without warning after taking over DirecTV. All because DirecTV folks had beat the hell out of him in court. He bought the bulk of the shares in DirecTV and fired them all.