John Edwards has been in a dust up with Fox News.

The former North Carolina senator called last week for Democrats to oppose the merger of the News Corporation, owned by British media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the Dow Jones Company which owns the Wall Street Journal, Rob Christensen reports.

Edwards said media consolidation was a bad trend. And he also asked Democratic presidential candidates to not accept money from News Corp. executives, a slap at one of his rivals, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton who has received $20,000.

"The time has come for Democrats to stop pretending to be friends with the very people who demonize the Democratic Party," Edwards said in a statement.

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