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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Did Fox buy KSL?
If you attended any of the pro-Bush, (AKA " Welcome and Appreciation for the President" and "Freedom Rally") gatherings, you can be forgiven if you came to the conclusion they were sponsored by KSL, Utah's dominant broadcast news outlet that is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After all, popular KSL-Radio talk radio host Doug Wright brought his sanctimonious style to both rallies as their emcee and even broadcast on location from the pro-Bush, pro-Iraq War "Freedom Rally" at Liberty Park.

A Freedom Rally organizer, in fact, announced that KSL had "sponsored" the event to the cheers of Bush supporters and out-of-town American Legionnaires. Wright, who was sitting on stage basking in the applause, did not correct him.

We briefly pulled Wright off the stage to ask him if KSL, which bills itself as an unbiased news source, was indeed sponsoring rallies endorsing the president and his policies in the Middle East.

No, no, Wright assured us, "KSL is not sponsoring the rallies. I'm just serving as emcee at them."

-- Glen Warchol

1 Comments:

At 11:47 PM, Anonymous You Don't Know Me said...

Fox didn't buy KSL. KSL bought Fox.

Paid for it by selling off the pages of the Golden Plates that contain the last half of Mosiah Chapter 4.

We weren't using that part anyway.

 

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