Saudi prince changes Fox’s Paris riots coverage
US Fox News channel was ordered to alter its coverage of the riots in France after a Saudi prince with shares in its parent company News Corporation complained to Rupert Murdoch. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul aziz Al-Saud told a conference in Dubai he had telephoned Murdoch after seeing a strapline on the news channel describing the disturbances as ‘Muslim riots’.
‘I picked up the phone and called Murdoch and said that I was speaking not as a shareholder, but as a viewer of Fox. I said that these are not Muslim riots, they are riots,’ Campaign Middle East magazine quoted the prince as saying.
‘He investigated the matter and called Fox and within half an hour it was changed from ‘Muslim riots’ to ‘civil riots’.’ The prince said his intervention had been an example of how Muslim people can change the portrayal of their religion in the western media - although few Fox viewers will have his contacts. (Media Guardian, December 13, 2005)
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It’s good to have money - Also if you are a muslim.
I guess this story is linked somewhat to the story about Pentagon spending $300 millons on probaganda.
Comment by Jens H — December 15, 2005 @ 1:06 am
I’ve no sympathy for either Fox news or Saudi Arabia Wahabites, but the Paris Riots were certainly “civil riots”, not “Muslim riots”. Maybe you could call them “nihilistic riots” in a sense.
Comment by rams — December 29, 2005 @ 2:45 pm