Fox News buys Al-jazeera

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http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=50942454963b50bb&cat=c08dd24cec417021

Fox News Buys Al-Jazeera
'Hannity and Hussein' among new network’s programsWEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Andy Borowitz
Newsweek
Updated: 12:45 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2005Feb. 1 - Under intense pressure from the Bush administration to sell its controversial Al-Jazeera network, the nation of Qatar stunned the television industry today by agreeing to sell the broadcast company to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel.



Television insiders were taken aback that the network whose motto is "We Report. You Decide," would acquire a broadcast entity whose slogan is "Death to the Infidels."

But according to Murdoch, chairman and CEO of Fox parent News Corp., the merger was a natural because, in his words, "We took a look at their format and realized that it was almost identical to ours."




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Murdoch bought Al Jazeera he owns all the airwaves even of the opposition... Money talks!!!

[cosmicdot]

1. satire is so close to reality these days n/m

[thebigidea]

2. his Onion ripoffs are even duller the 2nd time around

I know its supposed to be "funny" or something, but these stupid Al-Jazeera stereotypes are getting on my nerves... they just reveal how Borowitz is getting his view of them from, uh, FOX, ironically enough.

The past few years have provided unending riches of material to mock and maul, and yet this Borowitz guy hasn't made me crack a smile once...

[genieroze]

3. Are you f**king Sh*tting me?

You are sh*tting me. lol

[jmowreader]

5. He's shitting you

I'm sending him a crowbar to pry his tongue out of his cheek.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. Republicans Buy Europe.

That'll show 'em.

[Goldom]

6. ok i believed this story for the last hour

and was just wondering why it wasn't in LBN... ~sigh~