Wall Street Journal reporters and editors shouldn’t fear News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, their likely new owner, but Fox News head Roger Ailes and Fox Business News head Neil Cavuto, with whom they will be working more closely, writes Eric Boehlert on the Media Matters for America web site.
“As for the day-to-day face of the FBN, that will be Cavuto. When not denouncing Happy Feet, a children’s animated movie about penguins, as being ‘offensive’ liberal ‘propaganda,’ Cavuto recently waded into the Don Imus controversy by asking an on-air guest, ‘I mean, a ho is a ho, right?’ This, from an anchor who once suggested he cannot simultaneously be both ‘a good American’ and ‘a good journalist.’
“Back in April 2003, when Cavuto’s beloved war in Iraq was still flying high, he hit back hard on the air against a journalism professor who had been quoted as saying the FNC anchorman had ‘abandoned objectivity for overt nationalism’ during the war coverage. ‘So am I slanted and biased?’ Cavuto responded. ‘You … bet I am, professor.'”
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