FOX NEWS AND THE SAUDIS.

Regular FOX news watchers have noticed the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims. Now it veers away from any real news in the war on Islamic jihad and pursues car chases, spousal murders and blond murders (save Fred Barnes and the Beltway Boys and Hume's news hour and E.D. Hill ).Fox Guarding the Wolf House Joe Kaufman, Front Page MagazineFox News has long been considered a beacon to those that distrust televised liberal media, meaning every channel other than Fox. One of the indicators of the station's right-leaning bent is that it has, for the most part, gotten the 'War on Terrorism' correct. However, with the undue influence of a Saudi Prince related to militant causes and with this month's acquisition of Beliefnet, a religious resource website that proudly promotes radical Islam, signs show that the war coverage may soon be taking a turn for the worse. In September of 2005, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal purchased 5.46 per cent of Class B voting shares in News Corp (NYSE:NWS) , the company that owns Fox News and a number of other media and entertainment entities. This had replaced the three per cent stake in Class A non-voting shares bin Talal had previously held through his investment corporation, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC). With his newfound voting rights, bin Talal stated his intention of supporting Rupert Murdoch, the principal owner of News Corp, helping Murdoch to stay in power and avoid hostile takeover by other interested investors. Some have said that this was like making a deal with the devil, as Murdoch has been left vulnerable to the whims of an individual that has been involved in despicable causes. In April of 2002, bin Talal had donated $27 million during a Saudi telethon that was raising money for the families of suicide bombers. As well, he had given $500,000 to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be used towards the distribution and propagation of a set of Islamist books for American libraries. The set included Jamal Badawi's Gender Equity in Islam, which sanctions the beating of women by their husbands, and a version of the Quran, Abdullah Yusuf Ali's The Meaning of THE HOLY QURAN, which has been banned by the Los Angeles school system. Utilizing his position of power within Fox News (today, he is the second largest shareholder), bin Talal has worked to influence programming at the station.Read it all [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]