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Is Saudi Prince Steering News Corp. Coverage?

Leonard152 Wrote: Jan 13, 2013 1:50 AM

The new station will become to Islamism what Pravda used to be to the Soviet Communism. As for Newscorp, it will continue driving with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake. The foot on the accelerator belongs to Rupert Murdock. The one on the brake belongs to the Saudi Prince.

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Is Saudi Prince Steering News Corp. Coverage?

Ever since Al Gore sold Current TV to Al Jazeera, the network founded and funded by the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, the former vice president has drawn continuous fire in conservative media. Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, for example, have all castigated Gore, a man of the Left and leading avatar of "global warming," for such hypocrisies as timing the deal to avoid Lefty tax hikes and bagging $100 million in greenhouse-gas money.

These same news outlets share something else in common: They all belong to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. That means they also belong to...

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