Thursday, 13 January 2011

Fox News "Out of Control?" Surely not

Ian Burrell writes in the Independent today,
one of Mr Murdoch's former henchmen, Andrew Neil, publicly questioned whether the world's most powerful media figure retained his grip over his organisation. Criticising the output of Murdoch's Fox News, Mr Neil, the founding chairman of Sky TV and the former editor of The Sunday Times, said the News Corp CEO was "uncomfortable" with Fox's right-wing presenters, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck.
"My own view is [Fox] is out of control," Neil told Richard Bacon yesterday on BBC Radio 5 Live. "I think Rupert Murdoch has lost control of it. I know from sources he's not happy with a lot that appears on it and I think he's lost over the Glenn Becks and the O'Reillys," said Mr Neil.
It certainly seems to be re-drawing the international borders of the Middle East.

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