NY Times - "Politicians as News Analysts Raise Questions on Their Goal" - Fox's Monopoly!

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It is amazing how many GOP Presidential hopefuls Fox has on its payroll. You can only imagine what kind of power Rupert Murdoch would wield if any of the politicians Murdoch has on his payroll end up winning in 2012. You would think that there should be an antitrust violation given how Fox is cornering the market on the GOP 2012 presidential field.

President Obama is wrong. Fox is not the PR arm of the GOP. The GOP is the policy and political arm of Fox News owner, Rupert Murdoch.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/business/media/15candidate.html?em

Sarah Palin. Mike Huckabee. Newt Gingrich.

Today, that is a list of paid Fox News political analysts. Two years from now, it could be a list of Republican presidential candidates.

A former Fox analyst, Angela McGlowan, entered a House race in Mississippi last week. Over at MSNBC, Harold E. Ford Jr. was on the payroll until a few weeks ago, when he told his boss that he was seriously contemplating a run for the Senate from New York. TV names are also constantly being run through the candidate rumor mill. There is a “Draft Larry Kudlow” movement. There is also talk of a political bid by Lou Dobbs, who left CNN last fall.

“It does seem amazing how many are being either discussed as candidates, rumored as candidates, or are actually doing it,” said Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC.

Television and politics have always been intertwined, but never to this degree, TV executives and journalism professionals say. It would seem that the so-called revolving door for political operatives has been extended to the politicians themselves, at a time when cable news is more politically charged than ever.

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1. k&r

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2. Well, Murdoch is a corporation, and corporations are people, so all is right with the world.

Right wing, that is.