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mwooldri

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34. Fox has its share of blame... the others too.

Mon Apr 7, 2014, 10:58 AM

Apr 2014

American media is beholden to the people who pay the bills. Not even PBS is immune.

Sadly, money talks. International media has its own issues too.... we may like Al-Jazeera, but the government of Qatar owns it. IMO the BBC gets close because it's directly funded by the people, not through governmental taxation. Then again the BBC operates under a government charter that gets renewed periodically.

Rupert Murdoch has continually railed against the BBC... but because the BBC had years working as the monopoly broadcaster and gained a reputation for reliable, fair and balanced news programming.... Rupert has had to try to live up to that standard.

Fox News channel has never had this problem. I think Rupert made a news outlet that mirrors what his newspaper business does... and it's always been overtly political.

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