Category — Mainstream Media

FOX News Blackballs GOP Candidates

…Giulani Involvement Points to a Conspiracy

“Bias has to do with the elimination of points of view, not presenting a point of view.”
Roger Ailes, President
Fox News

With those words, Roger Ailes once expressed the reason that so many viewers turned to Fox News. In a time when Ted Turner and NBC dominated cable news, Fox News rode onto the scene like a proverbial knight in shining armor. These days, the armor is tarnished and the white horse is muddied - it appears that Mr. Ailes’ understanding of how media outlets most effectively exploit their influence to promote a bias is, in fact, company policy.

In an unparalleled move, Fox has chosen to silence the only Republican candidate who could truly be classified as a traditional limited-government conservative who has demonstrated a strict commitment to the U.S. Constitution - based upon the nearly 4 decades of voting records available for review. The network, consistently #1 among cable news networks in Nielsen ratings, excluded Dr. Ron Paul from its Republican presidential debate Sunday, January 6^th.

Instead, Fox has persistently pushed the names of Paul’s opponents into the limelight - names like Giuliani, whom Paul soundly beat in last Thursday’s Iowa Caucus, capturing nearly three times as many votes. Giuliani was invited to the Sunday debate sponsored by the network, as was Fred Thompson, whose poll numbers in New Hampshire - the state in which the debate was held - have been consistently lower than Ron Paul’s.Fox has repeatedly refused to state its reasons for relegating Ron Paul - long seen as a significant contender for the Republican nomination - to the “need-not-appear” category. It seems that the network’s policy is very specifically to eliminate his point of view.

Mr. Ailes? Is this your policy, or does it come from Mr. Murdoch?

The Giuliani Connection

According to the Columbia Journalism Review, during the first New York City mayoral term of Rudy Giuliani, News Corp (the parent company of Fox News) received a $20.7 million tax break for the building in Manhattan that serves as the home of Fox News, as well as News Corp’s New York Post, and various other News Corp media holdings, including TV Guide.
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