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Fox News has promoted the Tea Party movement since it was born. If it’s against the Obama administration, they support it. Apparently, Rupert Murdoch’s selective memory has kicked in again.

Now Murdoch says Fox should not be supporting the movement, but adds:

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“No. I don’t think we should be supporting the Tea Party or any other party. But I’d like to investigate what you are saying before condemning anyone.”

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Mr Murdoch does not need to investigate too long. He can simply Google “Fox News promoting the Tea Party” and he’ll see a lot of evidence:

(more at http://www.politicususa.com/en/murdoch-fox-tea-party

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While at Davos, Rupert Murdoch discusses the rise of the Internet and digital media, and tells us he used News Corp. to manipulate the news.

Asked if his News Corp. managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq, Murdoch said: "No, I don't think so. We tried." Asked by Rose for further comment, he said: "We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East."

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Murdoch Agrees With Beck That Obama Is A Racist

Fox News host Glenn Beck was wrong when he called President Obama a racist this summer, so I'm not sure why his boss, Rupert Murdoch, repeated the silly allegation only to have his spokesperson backtrack.

Advertisers began withdrawing their ads from Beck's show after his remarks. Maybe that's why a Murdoch spokesperson began backtracking:

"He does not at all, for a minute, think the president is a racist," News Corp. spokesperson Gary Ginsberg told Politico.

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Rupert Murdoch Defends Charging on Internet and Challenges Fair Use

When challenged that his news organisations could just remove themselves from the search engines, he said "I think we will. But that's when we start charging. We do it already with the Wall Street Journal. We have a wall but its not right to the ceiling, you get the first paragraph of each story. If you are not a paying subscriber of WSJ.com you get a paragraph and a subscription form.

Was this WSJ model what we can expect to see in other online publications? "Maybe, maybe. There's a doctrine called 'fair use', which we believe could be challenged in the courts and bar it all together. But it's ok, we are getting a lot of advertising revenue so we will take that slowly."

The doctrine of fair use defines the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as news reporting, and is a content gathering cornerstone for most mainstream media, including publications owned by Mr Murdoch.

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