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Fox News and Saudi Arabia. Did you know? WTF?

techs

techs

Lifer
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/media/18prince.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2609666/posts
http://www.****************/1566018/crib-sheet-prince-alwaleed

Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia is also the second-largest shareholder of Fox News’s parent, the News Corporation, with a stake worth more than $2 billion, which was not always disclosed on Fox News.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal claims that he's the second biggest investor in News Corp., after Rupert Murdoch himself

Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal owns 5 percent of the voting shares of Fox News' parent company, News Corporation, and is said to be willing to raise his stake, if necessary, to protect Murdoch against hostile takeover bids. Further, the article reports, Rupert Murdoch is an investor in some of Talal's ventures.

Several years ago Al-Waleed made it known he would invest "whatever it takes" to ward off any potential hostile takeover of Murdochs corporation, discouraging several potential purchasers.


Fox News Loves Saudi Arabia.
 
Makes you wonder why some Fox News anchor would say "All terrorists are Muslims." I mean, look at what happened to Rick Sanchez for saying what he said.
 
The statement may be a bit illegal about trying to disuade other possible stockholders from buying stock. This is suppose to be a stock market and a free market. He may feel he has to protect his own investment. Many investors sometimes stay with a stock to keep it propped up.

5% share in any company is not that huge in the grand scheme of things. It does show confidence in company if you know some of the big players will continue to have confidence in it.

From your inference, then do some companies love the japanese?

If they do, so what?
 
piasabird said:
The statement may be a bit illegal about trying to disuade other possible stockholders from buying stock. This is suppose to be a stock market and a free market. He may feel he has to protect his own investment. Many investors sometimes stay with a stock to keep it propped up.

5% share in any company is not that huge in the grand scheme of things. It does show confidence in company if you know some of the big players will continue to have confidence in it.

From your inference, then do some companies love the japanese?

If they do, so what?
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It's not illegal. In fact corporations often do things like take "poison pill" measures, or sell a certain amount of stock to someone who has expressed support for the companies ownership. That dissuades other investors who may try to gain a controlling interest.

And with 5 percent of a company you can very often control a company since stock is spread around amongst, at times, millions of employees.
And, if you Google further you will find that the Saudis made their transfer to voting stock when other investors announced an interest in buying News Corp.
Remember, at any one time only a small percent of stock is on the market.

Or you could Google further. It gets pretty interesting.
 
Considering how much leverage they have over the big business types and most, if not all repub politicians, including, of course, the Bush family, and yes, some Dems too, having ties with Fox is just the natural order of things.

Their motto should be "Greed Before Country" or "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything That's Not Already Yours".
 
What the hell is the point of this thread?

Edit: And exactly what web site(s) are you incessantly regurgitating?
 
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Other investments by the prince:


  • Amazon
  • AOL/Time Warner
  • Apple Inc.
  • Canary Wharf
  • Citigroup
  • Coca Cola
  • Compaq
  • Disneyland Paris
  • eBay
  • Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
  • Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
  • Fox News Channel
  • Ford
  • Hotel George V, Paris
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • McDonald's
  • Motorola
  • Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
  • News Corporation
  • PepsiCo
  • Priceline.com Inc
  • Procter & Gamble
  • The Walt Disney Company
  • LBCI Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International
  • SAMBA, Saudi American Bank
  • etc

So, aside from having investments in the parent company of Fox news, he also has investments in the parent companies of ABC and CNN.

He's also the main contributor to the funding behind the controversial NYC mosque.

So... what is your point again? It must have gotten lost in all the stupid you also posted.
 
I don't understand the interest this holds for the Left?

Fox has no control over who buys it's stock on the stock market. Kim Il Jong could own their stock too for all we know.

The money he paid for the stock didn't go to Fox, but instead to whomever he purchased the shares from.

Fern
 
Fern said:
I don't understand the interest this holds for the Left?

Fox has no control over who buys it's stock on the stock market. Kim Il Jong could own their stock too for all we know.

The money he paid for the stock didn't go to Fox, but instead to whomever he purchased the shares from.

Fern
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There is a difference between the Left I know and respect and many posters here. The former understand that this was a business opportunity. They would realize that showmanship makes money, stated philosophy notwithstanding. Then we have those who post threads like these.
 
The anti-muslim fearmongering by the right here is in reality directed against shiite states or shiite supported states. (bomb Iran!) Saudi Arabia is a blind spot you notice to the corporate media. Makes perfect sense. The whipping up 'anti-shiite state' fear to a oblivious US citizenry works perfect for a radical islamist arab state, and we get bent over for their oil, the richest corporations make out with our tax dollars and all is well in tin pot dictatorshipland. (as long as they are OUR dictators who work for the corporations all nice-like.)

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1k postz!
 
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TheRedUnderURBed said:
The anti-muslim fearmongering...
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techs said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/media/18prince.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2609666/posts
http://www.****************/1566018/crib-sheet-prince-alwaleed

Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia is also the second-largest shareholder of Fox News’s parent, the News Corporation, with a stake worth more than $2 billion, which was not always disclosed on Fox News.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal claims that he's the second biggest investor in News Corp., after Rupert Murdoch himself

Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal owns 5 percent of the voting shares of Fox News' parent company, News Corporation, and is said to be willing to raise his stake, if necessary, to protect Murdoch against hostile takeover bids. Further, the article reports, Rupert Murdoch is an investor in some of Talal's ventures.

Several years ago Al-Waleed made it known he would invest "whatever it takes" to ward off any potential hostile takeover of Murdochs corporation, discouraging several potential purchasers.


Fox News Loves Saudi Arabia.
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/popcorn
 
TheRedUnderURBed said:
The anti-muslim fearmongering by the right here is in reality directed against sunni states or sunni supported states. (bomb Iran!) Saudi Arabia is a blind spot you notice to the corporate media. Makes perfect sense. The whipping up 'anti-sunni state' fear to a oblivious US citizenry works perfect for a radical islamist arab state, and we get bent over for their oil, the richest corporations make out with our tax dollars and all is well.

1k postz!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Iran

Most Iranians are Muslims; 89%[1] to 90%[2] belong to the Shi'a branch of Islam, the official state religion
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