Edwards Denounces WSJ Purchase, Attacks Fox and Clinton

Today the Edwards campaign denounced Murdoch's purchase of the Wall Street Journal. He called on other Democratic candidates to return all contributions from News Corp execs because of the way FOX treats Dems. So how much money did Edwards get from FOX?

Murdoch's News Corp has recently removed all obstacles to its purchase of Dow Jones. According to the campaign statement, Edwards is opposed to media consolidation. He called on Democrats to "stop the merger between News Corp and the Dow Jones Company." (NOTE: News Corp owns FOX, HarperCollins, New York Post, the Weekly Standard, TV Guide, and DirecTV) He alleged poor treatment of Democrats by FOX and called on all Democratic Presidential candidates to return contributions from News Corp and FOX executives. He said all candidates but he really meant Senator Clinton, whose campaign has received $2,300 from Rupert Murdoch. If Edwards feels media consolidation threatens "the health of our democracy," why did he accept contributions from senior media executives including FOX? A Mother Jones article from March showed the consolidation of media by eight major corporations including News Corp, General Electric, Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, Google, and Bertelsmann. The Edwards campaign accepted $2,300 from Time Warner executives, $2,250 from Disney executives, $7,000 from executives at Google and $675 from executives at FOX. And that's just what I found in a few minutes on OpenSecrets.org. How very Vitter of him.