Com­ment: Sem­i­nal, heroic researcher Joe Trento — author of “Pre­lude to Ter­ror” — weighs in on Saudi Prince Alwaleed’s sway over Grup­pen­fuhrer Murdoch’s jour­nal­is­tic empire.

“Trento’s Take: Fox News Can’t Upset Murdoch’s Saudi Prince”; DC Bureau; 2/3/2010.

Last month I appeared on Fox News Network’s morn­ing show, Fox and Friends, to talk about air­line secu­rity. Nor­mally such appear­ances end up as clips on the Fox News Web site. Granted, the Steve Doocy inter­view was hardly ground­break­ing, but that is sel­dom a cri­te­rion for feed­ing the beast that is a major cable net­work news Web site. Curi­ously, I was quoted in a writ­ten piece on the site that got a fair amount of pick-up, but no video.

It was not until a few days later that I learned what may have been behind the absence of a video clip on the Web site. I had said to Doocy that Saudi Ara­bian money was still financ­ing Al Qaeda. Doocy did not react to my com­ment. But ten days later I learned that Fox’s par­ent com­pany, News Cor­po­ra­tion, was, at the time of my inter­view, nego­ti­at­ing with a Saudi prince to vastly increase his stake in the com­pany. Read entire article »