Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, January 11, 2010

Murdoch Family "Ashamed And Sickened" By Fox News

By Steve Hynd


The British son-in-law of media giant and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch has put the boot in on Roger Ailes, FOX's boss.



Agreeing to contribute his thoughts to a New York Times profile of Mr Ailes, Mr Freud stated: "I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to."


Mr Ailes has long been rumoured to have a tempestuous personal relationship with Rupert Murdoch, while the mogul's children are known to have substantially more liberal views than those on show on Fox. A recent biography of Mr Murdoch, The Man Who Owns The News by Michael Wolff, described how the mogul's wife, Wendi Deng, persistently urged her husband to rein in the political coverage on Fox.


Mr Wolff said last night that Mr Freud's statement could only be interpreted as a calculated attempt to put pressure on Mr Ailes. "Matthew Freud, a PR man of extraordinary craftiness, is not going to say anything off the cuff, certainly not that. I have never heard a shoe drop as loud. I don't believe Roger Ailes can continue in this company. Not only has he been told that its controlling shareholders don't want him, but he has been told they think he is despicable. Something has just been set in motion."


Ailes, apparently, gets paid more than even Murdoch himself - in line with his even larger ego. It's interesting that recently the likes of ABC's Jake Tapper were defending FOx's journalistic integrity from attacks by the White House, but even the Murdoch family see the way things really are.



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  1. zenpunditJanuary 11, 2010 at 4:39 AM

    "Mr Ailes has long been rumoured to have a tempestuous personal relationship with Rupert Murdoch, while the mogul's children are known to have substantially more liberal views than those on show on Fox...."
    It goes without saying that what passes for liberalism today is often defined by a hysterical intolerance for the expression of differing opinions and a general lack of self-awareness of its own biases. FOX is openly slanted in its coverage. CBS produces political hoaxes as "news" and claims objectivity. That's pretty much the MSM in a nutshell.
    As Murdoch's kids do not own FOX, Ailes can pretty much tell them to kiss his substantial behind.

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