Move On: Could this be the end of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News?

[Cal33]

Allegations in the U.K. against Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, Fox's parent company, just keep coming. Hacking into the phone of a 13-year-old murder victim, bribing government officials, and now claims of hacking into the voice mail of 9/11 victims and their families.1

Now, the key is to find out how far Fox and the rest of Murdoch's news outlets went here in the U.S. If they've been as corrupt and criminal here as it looks like they've been in the U.K., then we might just see Murdoch's media empire crumble.

So we're launching a new campaign to build unavoidable public pressure for full investigations. We'll start tomorrow with a hard-hitting new ad asking whether Murdoch is "running a company or a crime syndicate." But first we need to the raise the money to get it on the air and ramp up the campaign.

Can you help hold Fox and Rupert Murdoch accountable here in the U.S.?


Rupert Murdoch has a huge amount of influence in this country. He owns some of the most influential news outlets in America including not only Fox News but The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and dozens more.

But his influence shouldn't mean that his companies can get away with crimes. In the U.K. we've seen what a tough investigation spurred by public outrage and pressure can do to expose the truth.

We deserve the same here in the U.S. We deserve to know whether Fox News or other Murdoch outlets have violated our laws. But just like in the U.K., it won't happen unless we can generate enough public pressure to force a real investigation and real accountability.

We're ready to ramp up a campaign for accountability right away by hitting the airwaves with our new ad as soon as we can raise the money.

Click here to chip in $25 so we can start running ads and building the pressure on Fox and the rest of Rupert Murdoch's media empire:

https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/news_crime.html?bg_id=hpc25&id=29076-8519572-xDRS2Hx&t=3

[Taverner]

1. Dog I hope so, but I doubt it

Like some crazy-ex or a vampire, SPECTRE News keeps coming back with 10% more evil every time

[Cal33]

4. We'll all just keep on hoping.

[Snoutport]

2. i made my donation :0) thanks for sharing this

[Cal33]

8. Many thanks for your donation. I sure hope Fox will be investigated,

found guilty, and their mission of corruption and lies terminated for good.
And may the American people finally wake up to the evil that has been
perpetrated upon them.

[peace frog]

3. It won't be the end of Murdoch's empire

Faux News will be kept alive by the extreme RW by any means necessary, as it is their most valuable media propaganda tool.

[Cal33]

5. All the more reason for us to try to end Fox, but we must really keep on the pressure.

It's the effort that counts. We won't blames ourselves for not having
tried while we had the chance.

[peace frog]

11. Pressure away, and best of luck

but we both know how it will end: The wingnut PTB will see to it that Fox News is here to stay.

[Cal33]

14. There are many ways of counteracting the Powers That Be. For instance,

right now that Murdoch is so much in the news, Democrats could do their best to
inform the brain-washed Fox News-only listeners what a liar and deceiver Murdoch
and his Fox news really are. This is a golden opportunity. Strike while the iron
is hot, and also keep it up. Tactfully let them know how they've been brain-washed
all along.

I wish Current TV will develop into a TV station that more and more people will go
to to learn the truth. Al Gore and Olbermann should be working hard to evolve into
such a News station.

Current TV could have a special daily news hour debunking all the lies that the
Neocons are sreading now, and have spread in the past. There's nothing wrong with
repeating old info. In fact, it might be the only way to help it sink in. That's
one way of de-programming the brain-washed ones of our population.

[malaise]

6. K & R

Great news

[progressoid]

7. Doubt it.

This is just a minor speed bump for him.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Cal.

[Cal33]

10. You're welcome, and thank you. Let's help to build up the pressure to investigate Fox.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. It should if the democrats had any balls at all but...

we shall see.

[marions ghost]

13. Building the pressure

on News Corp right now is the most important thing we can do to knock back the Fox stranglehold on America.

:thumbsup: MoveOn

[Cal33]

17. Yes, and let's keep it up. This will be one of those long-term affairs.

[deacon]

15. K + R

[Shagbark Hickory]

16. What would you rather have...

No fox news and no family guy
or
fox news still around and family guy still around??

[Cal33]

I don't know anything about "Family Guy." But I'd like to see Fox

kicked out altogether, yes. Not to worry, the Repubs.
will still be in control of the majority of the news
media. It's just that the odds will have improved a bit
for the Dems.

[Cal33]

18. I don't know anything about "Family Guy." But I'd like to see Fox

kicked out altogether, yes. Not to worry, the Repubs.
will still be in control of the majority of the news
media. It's just that the odds will have improved a bit
for the Dems.

[Dr Fate]

19. FOX news has as much to worry about as BP or the Koch Brothers.

We are talking about Obama and the Democratic party here.

[Cal33]

20. There is no movement to put pressure on BP or the Koch brothers that I am

aware of. Maybe there should be. It might make a slight difference.