{"id":2598,"date":"2010-08-18T03:03:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2010-08-18T03:03:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T10:03:57","slug":"is-fox-the-republican-reichsministry-of-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/is-fox-the-republican-reichsministry-of-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fox the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rupert Murdoch put his money where is publications, including Faux Noise<\/em>, are yesterday.  He gave $1 million to the Republican Party and nothing to the Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Fox_News_Nazi\"<\/a> Yesterday, Bloomberg News reported that News Corp., the Fox News parent company run by Rupert Murdoch, donated $1 million<\/a> to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) in June. As Politico\u2019s Ben Smith noted, \u201cThe company\u2019s media outlets play politics more openly than most, but the huge contribution to a party committee is a new step toward an open identification<\/a> between Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. and the GOP.\u201d <\/p>\n

A look at News Corp\u2019s own \u201cStandards of Business Conduct [Murdoch delinked],\u201d however, raises questions about whether the $1 million contribution to the RGA violations company policy:<\/p>\n

B. Dealing With Government Officials<\/p>\n

Employees who have dealings with government officials shall conform to the following standards:<\/p>\n

1. All employees who contact public officials must be familiar with the applicable lobbying laws and public disclosure requirements, particularly those laws or regulations pertaining to registrations or filings that must be made by the Company.<\/p>\n

2. No payment shall be made to, or for the benefit of, any public official in order to induce or entice such official to: enact, defeat or violate any law or regulation for the Company\u2019s benefit; influence any official act; or obtain any favorable action by a governmental agency or official on behalf of the Company.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Social amenities, entertainment and other courtesies may be extended to government officials or employees only to the extent appropriate and reasonable under applicable laws and customs. Gifts of greater than nominal value to, or lavish entertainment of, public officials are prohibited. No gifts in the form of cash, stock or other similar consideration shall be given, regardless of amount.<\/span> Any gift about which an employee is uncertain should not be made without the prior written approval of the Company\u2019s General Counsel. Any expenses incurred by a Company employee in connection with the matters discussed herein shall be accurately recorded on the Company\u2019s books and records.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s not totally clear is the intent of News Corp\u2019s donation. Was it to \u201cinduce or entice\u201d a public official to \u201cenact, defeat or violate any law or regulation for the Company\u2019s benefit\u201d? The only public response from the company so far comes from spokesman Jack Horner, who said, \u201cNews Corporation believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA\u2019s pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy<\/a>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

News Corp\u2019s official company policy properly forbids such donations by a news organization, but Fox and Murdoch\u2019s other media properties are not about news.  They are about furthering the agenda of the extreme right, no matter how many sheeple they deceive in the process.<\/font><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann and Eric Burns, President of Media Matters<\/a>, discuss the extent to which Faux Noise<\/em> has become an integral part of the Republican political juggernaut.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So is Fox the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda?  I say YES.  What say you?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rupert Murdoch put his money where is publications, including Faux Noise, are yesterday.  He gave $1 million to the Republican Party and nothing to the Democrats. Yesterday, Bloomberg News reported that News Corp., the Fox News parent company run by Rupert Murdoch, donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) in June. As Politico\u2019s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}