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Article: Critique of faux (fox) news. (Insider Report).(Fox News Network's coverage of Iraq War)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The New American
- Article date:
- May 5, 2003
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The war in Iraq was a ratings bonanza for Fox News, the neoconservative cable network owned by Australian expatriate Rupert Murdoch, a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations and admitted "friend of China." As Israeli media critic Rogel Alper pointed out in the April 10th issue of Haaretz, Fox News has effectively become an appendage of the Bush administration--and at the same time the dominant news source in the global media.
"America's Fox News network has been demonstrating since the start of the war in Iraq an amazing lesson in media hypocrisy," commented Alper. "The anchors, reporters and commentators unceasingly emphasize that the war's goal is ...