{"id":973,"date":"2004-11-19T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2004-11-19T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T16:54:09","slug":"al-foxjazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"al-FoxJazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FoxJazeera.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Our friend Pam, at her simmering &#8220;House Blend&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamspaulding.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/someone-might-want-to-ask-why-is-saudi.html\" target=\"_blank\">asks an astute question<\/a> &#8212; though one for which the answer is likely self-obvious to any Reality-Based Americans.<\/p>\n<p>She wonders why it is that a Saudi Prince is protecting News Corp from a possible hostile take-over bid <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/942102ce-38ca-11d9-bc76-00000e2511c8.html\" target=\"_blank\">as reported<\/a> in Wednesday&#8217;s <i>Financial Times<\/i>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, the billionaire Saudi investor, has vowed to block any hostile takeover bid for News Corp, throwing his support behind Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the US media group.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPrince al-Waleed told the FT: \u201cThe idea is that if the need arises, we will act to keep News Corp independent under the leadership of Mr Murdoch and convert our stock to a voting stake and take whatever additional stake is needed.\u201d He also supported Mr Murdoch&#8217;s sons, Lachlan and James, who are deputy chief operating officer and chief executive of BSkyB respectively. \u201cI want to be sure Mr Murdoch and his family and the directors understand I&#8217;m ready to assist.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Follow the money. Ignore the sloganeering. Fox News and News Corp &#8220;support America&#8221; in the same way that George W. Bush &#8220;supports the troops&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Pam, at her simmering &#8220;House Blend&#8221; asks an astute question &#8212; though one for which the answer is likely self-obvious to any Reality-Based Americans. She wonders why it is that a Saudi Prince is protecting News Corp from a possible hostile take-over bid as reported in Wednesday&#8217;s Financial Times: Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}