Salon.com has a thorough write up of the links between Rudy "Toot Tooty" Giuliani and the Fux Network, and its parent company, the Rupert Murdock-run News Corp. In essence, what is being alleged in Judith Regan's lawsuit against News Corp. is that some of their key executives asked her to lie to the FBI during investigations of Giuliani buddy Bernie Kerik to protect Giuliani's presidential ambitions. Regan and Kerik had an adulterous affair (including using an apartment in lower Manhattan reserved for 9-11 rescue workers), and she may have surmised some of Bernie's mob connections at the very least. Fux News President Roger Ailes is a former Rethug media consultant, and a close personal friend of Rudy Toot Tooty's, as is Rupert Murdock.
This would seem to be a big story, certainly among the Fux Network's competitors, and some are covering it. But there are Giuliani fans embedded elsewhere in the media, who are pretending not to notice. For example, Tweety Matthews can't seem to get what on earth could be wrong here. The News Corp. should just pay Regan to go away, Tweety believes. Then he could go back to his unabashed man-love of the Mayor of 9-11, and stop pretending not to understand the problem there.
