With such a diversified lineup of diverse opinions, it is difficult for critics to explain why Fox News is allegedly biased--considering that other new channels have - if any - only one or two token conservatives. The public seems to agree, as Fox News has dominated the cable news industry--at times having higher ratings than CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, and CNBC - combined.  (Wikipedia.com)

When liberals make the claim that Fox News is "Right bias", they are, as usual, making false claims without checking the facts.  They simply do not understand that it's the rest of the media is Left bias and they are shocked to suddenly be confronted in the media by views that do not agree with their own as they are so used to seeing. 

So when you're watching Fox News, don't expect what you see to always be the conservative view.  Fox does report the conservative view, but it also includes the liberal views of the rest of the mainstream media.  That's what they mean by "fair and balanced". 

We tend to look to Fox News to counter the left bias of the rest of the news media but that's not the way it is in reality.  There is, in fact, no news service that can counterbalance the left media other than conservative talk radio and the "New Media" of the internet.  As for Fox News, they are at best 50/50.  News Corp. and Fox News management are primarily interested in one thing - profit.  They will air whatever brings in the most viewers.  They know they already have the conservatives as there is no place else for them to go.  If they can appeal to liberals as well, then that is what they will try to do.  Their agenda is not political, it is profit motivated and that is the American way.  We just have to take the good with the bad on Fox, what else can we do? 

It would be nice to have a real conservative news station but don't hold your breath, liberals own the media.  Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are fortunate to have gotten as far as they have with Fox News.  If they were any more conservative, some liberal judge would order that they offer "equal time" to liberals.  If that didn't work, New York liberal protesters would destroy the studio under the banner of "free speech".

At the annual meeting of News Corporation, parent of Fox News, chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed that a call from a Saudi Prince had resulted in a change in how the Fox News Channel covered the Muslim riots in France in 2005. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, a significant investor in News Corporation, told Murdoch he objected to highlighting the Muslim role in the riots. Murdoch said the change was made after it was determined that there was a Catholic role in the riots.

This is strange, to say the least. I had never heard or seen it reported anywhere that there was a Catholic role in the riots.

In an October 25 editorial, "Europe's Muslims," the Washington Post noted that, "A year ago this week, riots erupted in mostly Muslim suburbs of Paris and other French cities…" (emphasis added).

I went back a year ago, looking at various reports of the riots. Molly Moore of the Post on November 5, 2005, reported that, "Much of the rioting has occurred in areas heavily populated by poor African Muslim immigrants…"  (emphasis added).

Murdoch told me that the call from the Saudi Prince resulted in an investigation that resulted in the change of coverage. At the time, however, Claire Cozens of the Guardian reported that Alwaleed had claimed that the coverage was changed very quickly.

"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," the prince reportedly said. "He [Murdoch] investigated the matter and called Fox and within half an hour it was changed from 'Muslim riots' to 'civil riots.'"

The problem has gotten worse. Again, to quote from the October 25, 2006, editorial: "French police are facing what some call a 'permanent intifada' in Muslim neighborhoods, with nearly 2,500 incidents of violence against officers recorded in the first six months of the year. Some of these now take the form of planned ambushes: on Sunday a gang of youths emptied a bus of its passengers, set it on fire, and then stoned the firefighters who responded."

It looks like the Muslim riots are continuing. Will Fox News cover them accurately and objectively at the risk of another phone call from the Prince?

POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF RUPERT MURDOCH 2005-2006