Trento's Take: Fox News Can't Upset Murdoch's Saudi Prince

[douglas9]

Last month I appeared on Fox News Network’s morning show, Fox and Friends, to talk about airline security. Normally such appearances end up as clips on the Fox News Web site. Granted, the Steve Ducey interview was hardly groundbreaking, but that is seldom a criterion for feeding the beast that is a major cable network news Web site. Curiously, I was quoted in a written piece on the site that got a fair amount of pick-up, but no video.

It was not until a few days later that I learned what may have been behind the absence of a video clip on the Web site. I had said to Ducey that Saudi Arabian money was still financing Al Qaeda. Ducey did not react to my comment. But ten days later I learned that Fox’s parent company, News Corporation, was, at the time of my interview, negotiating with a Saudi prince to vastly increase his stake in the company.

The notorious Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, nephew to the Saudi king, met with Rupert Murdoch in Hong Kong on Jan. 14. The prince issued a press release after the meeting stating that the prince’s Kingdom Holding Company had discussions that "touched upon future potential alliances with News Corp."

By the time I appeared on Fox News, Prince Alwaleed was about to become News Corp’s fourth largest voting shareholder (behind the Murdoch family, Liberty Media, and Fidelity Management & Research Co, a mutual fund). The prince has repeatedly defended his homeland as a problem-free place. What he has failed to mention is that he has personally donated huge amounts of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

http://www.dcbureau.org/20100203319/Trento-s-Take/trentos-take-fox-news-cant-upset-murdochs-saudi-prince.html

[blm]

1. Didn't bother you when CNN was doing Bush's Saudi pals' bidding the last decade, did it?

Sure....you want us to believe you are just NOW waking up to the Global Fascism the Bushes and their global pals have been foisting upon this nation, Mr. Trento?

[StClone]

3. What is it with CNN?

Instead a truthful fact filled unbiased mission statement CNN use their canid, Wolff, to follow the FOX. MSNBC has shown that truth, and to you Freepturds MSNBC is factual along with the stinging commentary, draws an audience. FOX's news is more like American Idol than news.

[whattheidonot]

2. can't fall.

Saudi Arabia cannot fall. so our government knows what they are doing but can only fight the soldiers Saudi money provides. Saudi is sending radicals for us to kill so they will stay away from the Saudis. The Saudis are on our side in this fight. what a partner. The last thing the Saudis want is for the radicals to win. The amazing Middle east.

[108]

4. Why isn't this all over the other news sites?