Citizen Murdoch: NY Times "outrageously biased"

[edbermac]

From Mr Fair And Balanced himself.


NEW YORK Speaking at the 2007 Media Summit in New York today, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said that he doesn't think his bid, with the Chandler family, is likely to succeed in winning the auction for the Tribune company, and that his rumored interest in acquiring Dow Jones is "cooling."

Murdoch, whose company, of course, has a wide range of international holdings in newspapers, acknowledged that the business was "vulnerable," and said that newspaper companies needed to look at themselves more as information providers in the future.

"We've just got to be neutral about what platform we sell them on and view them on," he said.

On political expression in newspapers, Murdoch said he did think they were an appropriate forum, calling it "a matter of freedom of speech in editorials." He said the New York Times was "outrageously biased," and defended the New York Post's news pages. He admitted that he often disagrees with things that appear on the Post's editorial pages, but that for the most part his views were "broadly in alignment" with the newspaper's.

Murdoch also discussed the launch of a Fox "business" channel later this year, which he described as more "friendly" to business than CNBC.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003543448

Biased towards the truth, Mr Murdoch?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Talk about Freudian projection . . . n/t

[Jacobin]

2. Onlyon social issues

Otherwise, its a PNACing whore.


See: Judy Miller, et al

[madinmaryland]

3. "more friendly to business than CNBC"

:wtf: How much more friendly can you get?

[Marr]

8. Maybe it's another type of friendly.

CNBC (and the rest of the corporate media) is "friendly" to business the way frat brothers are friendly to each other. They have the same interests and the same friends.

Maybe Fox Business will be "friendly" to business in the way that prostitutes are friendly.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Pot. Kettle. Black.

[JHB]

5. He's right. It is.

Just not in the way he likes to imply.

[niyad]

6. isn''t this the same man who boasted at Davos that faux snooze did, in fact, have extremely

biased coverage in the events leading to the iraq invasion?

[sakabatou]

7. Mirror, mirror...

[BeyondGeography]

9. Right, the NYT and the Post were totally at odds on that whole WMD thing

:eyes: