On this website you can click on the links and see the actual internal FOX news memos TELLING the reporters WHAT TO SAY and what slant to put on the news:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200407140002
Here is the complete transcript of the exposee "Outfoxed, Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism":
http://www.outfoxed.org/docs/outfoxed_transcript.pdf
Here is a link to a study done by the Center of American Progress on FOX news bias:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...7/b117308.html
Here is the page from FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING covering Murdoch and Fox news:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=2
Here's a link that proves Murdoch ADMITTED he, through his media, deliberately tried to sway the public in support of the Iraq War:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...35390#17035390
Books:
Manufacturing Consent, or Media Control by Noam Chomsky
The Israel Lobby, Mearshiemer and Walt
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"Ownership induced political bias, epitomized by Rupert Murdoch who has frequently been accused of interfering in editorial decision making (McChesny 2004) constitues a relatively obvious and straighforward challenge to the objectivity norm." The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Peter J. Anderson and Geoff Ward.
An article in The Guardian:
TV watchdog checks claims of bias on Murdoch channel
* Matt Wells
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o Matt Wells, media correspondent
o The Guardian,
o Thursday May 8 2003
The Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel, whose determinedly patriotic stance during the Iraq conflict brought it critical notoriety but commercial success, is under investigation by television regulators in Britain for alleged bias.
The independent television commission is investigating nine complaints by viewers of the channel, broadcast on Sky Digital satellite, also controlled by Rupert Murdoch.
If the network is found to have breached the ITC's "due impartiality" rules, it could be forced out.
Julian Petley, chairman of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, called on the ITC to act against Fox News: "I'm not in favour of censorship, but
Murdoch would like to do with British television news what he has done with newspapers, which is to force people to compete on his own terms.
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