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effectively put the CIA in control of ABC news. [see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret
Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso, 2005, p.188 ]
News Corporation and FOX
The role of Murdoch’s FOX news as a mouthpiece for the Bush family is legendary. If
nothing else, having George Bush’s cousin as the Senior News Editor at FOX should be
an insightful tip.
“As Slate reports, Murdoch "put George W. Bush cousin John Ellis in charge of [Fox's] Election Night
vote-counting operation: Ellis made Fox the first network to declare Bush the victor" even as the New
Yorker reported that Ellis spent the evening discussing the election with George W. and Jeb Bush.
After the election, Fox bragged that it attracted 6.8 million viewers on Election Night, meaning Ellis
was in a key position to tilt the election for President Bush.” [Slate, 11/22/00; New Yorker, 11/20/00]
Similarly, having former Republican Party advisor Roger Ailes as a Fox News Director is
another insight to the FOX predisposition. [Michael C Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon, p.
263.]
“Ailes, 48, is the legendary dark prince of political advertising, the Republican consultant who helped
engineer Richard Nixon's resurrection in 1968 and who scripted Ronald Reagan's second-debate
comeback against Walter Mondale in 1984. This time Ailes has been the unseen hand behind Bush's
best moments: the "Pierre" put-down of former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont in a debate last
October, the hard-hitting anti-Dole advertising in February's New Hampshire primary, and the on-air
pummeling of CBS's Dan Rather last January…. Ailes' involvement has been crucial to Bush's
candidacy. When Bush arrived in New Hampshire reeling from a third-place finish in the Iowa
caucuses, Ailes labored all night over the television ad that quashed Robert Dole's insurgent campaign.
Known as the "Senator Straddle" commercial, the blunt spot asserted that Dole had waffled on tax
hikes, oil-import fees and arms control.” [The Man Behind the Message: If anyone can build a better
candidate, it is Roger Ailes, Richard Stengel, Time Magazine, August 22, 1988]
But there is more.
“Murdoch's media empire still has close ties with the Bush family. The relationship was recently put
under the spotlight when it was revealed that Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes, a former
Republican party strategist, secretly acted as an advisor to the president in the days after the
September 11 terrorist strikes.” [US media dig deep for politicians, Annie Lawson, Guardian, April 7,
2003]
“Discussions with former Fox News employees on several levels claim they were ordered to carry
propaganda, discredit and skew news against Democrats, meld news and commentary and negatively
caricature Mr Bush's presidential opponent, John Kerry, all under the network's slogans of ‘Fair and
Balanced’, and ‘We Report, You Decide’.”[The Advertiser, Stan James, October 16, 2004]
“When he decided to create his own U.S. radio and television network, Fox, he was confronted by an
American law no broadcaster had ever circumvented, though many had tried. The law requires that no
foreign entity may own more than 24.9 percent of a U.S. radio or television station. Murdoch changed
his citizenship from Australian to United States, but that gesture was not enough. He still failed to
comply with the broadcast law that requires the broadcaster's parent corporation to be based within the
United States. Murdoch refused to move the company because he had special tax advantages in
Australia. Instead, he used his new American power base of four newspapers and two magazines as
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