Watch the Sky (News)

Newshounds has a new report (courtesy of the Guardian) on Rupert Murdoch's stated intent to make his British Sky News more like Fox News. My comment is below.

My brother from the states gets to watch Fox News and Sky on his TV subscription service in the UK.

Sky, he told me, is definitely to the right of the BBC. Unlike Fox News, however, it is not into the "movement conservatism" of Fox, where advancement of conservative/Republican goals are placed above journalistic ethics and conservative principals. (Republican arrested for soliciting gay sex in a men's room? Defend his civil rights!)

He said if a Sky conservative commentator thinks a conservative politician's an idiot, he'll say so.

But be on your guard, those in the UK. When Murdoch wants something, he's very good at getting it. You know as least as well as us that he's not to be underestimated.