Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Fox News, Fairly Unbalanced

And possibly guilty of some real crime here. It is not all that clear yet since all the actors here embrace bullshit as their best friend.
Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004.

The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post.
I'm no lawyer, don't even play one in home movies, but it seems to me that encouraging someone to perjure themselves to federal investigators is a serious crime, unless you're Dick Cheney. But what else can you call this?
"Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik," the complaint says. "In fact, a senior executive in the News Corporation organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign. This executive advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik."
She asked for a settlement, Fox wouldn't go for it and she goes public. And hopefully the US Attorney in NYC has some integrity left.

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