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Hmmmmmmmmm. . . ya think this kind of thing might cause some media bias?

Subject: The CEO of Fox News (& NY Post) speaks his mind on war and oil

Murdoch praises Blair's 'courage'

Julia Day
Wednesday February 12, 2003
The Guardian

Rupert Murdoch has given his full backing to war, praising George Bush as
acting "morally" and "correctly" and describing Tony Blair as "full of
guts" for going out on a limb in his support for an attack on Iraq.
The media tycoon said he was completely behind Mr Bush and Mr Blair as
they faced opposition from Germany and France. Much of the world, he
said, cannot accept that America is the only superpower.
"I think Tony is being extraordinarily courageous and strong on what his
stance is in the Middle East. It's not easy to do that living in a party
which is largely composed of people that have a knee-jerk
anti-Americanism and are sort of pacifist," Mr Murdoch told the
Australian news magazine The Bulletin. "But he's shown great guts, as he
did, I think, in Kosovo and over various problems in the old Yugoslavia."

Mr Murdoch was unequivocal about war with Iraq. "We can't back down now.
I think Bush is acting very morally, very correctly, and I think he is
going to go on with it."
He said the price of oil would be one of the war's main benefits. "The
greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could
put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any
tax cut in any country."
Mr Murdoch's comments come just a week after he told Fortune magazine in
the US that war could fuel an economic boom.
"Who knows what the future holds? I have a pretty optimistic medium and
long-term view but things are going to be pretty sticky until we get Iraq
behind us. But once it's behind us, the whole world will benefit from
cheaper oil which will be a bigger stimulus than anything else," he told
Fortune.
Mr Murdoch believes there is no doubt that President Bush will be
re-elected if he wins the war with Iraq and the US economy remains
healthy.
"He will either go down in history as a very great president or he'll
crash and burn. I'm optimistic it will be the former by a ratio of two to
one."