Iraq ejects Fox News crew
Old Article Christy but check out his prediction: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong big time Mr Murdoch.
Julia Day
Monday February 17, 2003
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has been expelled from Iraq in what the TV channel believes is a tit-for-tat move following the US expulsion of an Iraqi journalist.
The four-strong Fox News crew, including correspondent Greg Palkot, has not been told why it must leave the country.
John Stark, the vice-president of news gathering for Fox News, said the reason for the development was American demands that an Iraqi News Agency journalist quit the US.
"We have reason to believe it was a tit-for-tat situation," said Mr Stark, who added Fox News intended to continue broadcasting from countries neighbouring Iraq.
"We will do our best from the perimeter and depend on the various news agencies we subscribe to - it's a difficult place for a journalist to try to conduct business," he said.
Mohammed Allawi, an INA reporter who has reported from the United Nations' New York headquarters for the past two years, said he was told to leave because he was "harmful to US interests".
Allawi said he received an expulsion letter signed by the deputy US ambassador, Patrick Kennedy.
Last week Mr Murdoch gave his unequivocal backing to war in Iraq, praising George Bush as acting "morally" and "correctly" and describing Tony Blair as "full of guts" for supporting the US.
The media tycoon 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 said.
How wrong can you be Mr Murdoch, try $60 a barrel
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,897403,00.html
Julia Day
Monday February 17, 2003
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has been expelled from Iraq in what the TV channel believes is a tit-for-tat move following the US expulsion of an Iraqi journalist.
The four-strong Fox News crew, including correspondent Greg Palkot, has not been told why it must leave the country.
John Stark, the vice-president of news gathering for Fox News, said the reason for the development was American demands that an Iraqi News Agency journalist quit the US.
"We have reason to believe it was a tit-for-tat situation," said Mr Stark, who added Fox News intended to continue broadcasting from countries neighbouring Iraq.
"We will do our best from the perimeter and depend on the various news agencies we subscribe to - it's a difficult place for a journalist to try to conduct business," he said.
Mohammed Allawi, an INA reporter who has reported from the United Nations' New York headquarters for the past two years, said he was told to leave because he was "harmful to US interests".
Allawi said he received an expulsion letter signed by the deputy US ambassador, Patrick Kennedy.
Last week Mr Murdoch gave his unequivocal backing to war in Iraq, praising George Bush as acting "morally" and "correctly" and describing Tony Blair as "full of guts" for supporting the US.
The media tycoon 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 said.
How wrong can you be Mr Murdoch, try $60 a barrel
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,897403,00.html
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