[spectre] [Fwd: FW: Stop Rupert Murdoch (fwd)]

[Andreas Maria Jacobs]

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Subject: FW: Stop Rupert Murdoch (fwd)
From:    "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim at PANIX.COM>
Date:    Wed, March 2, 2011 00:20
To:      WRYTING-L at listserv.wvu.edu
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:00:00
From: Jonathan Marshall <Jonathan.Marshall at UTS.EDU.AU>
Reply-To: Philosophy and Psychology of Cyberspace
<CYBERMIND at listserv.wvu.edu>
To: CYBERMIND at listserv.wvu.edu
Subject: FW: Stop Rupert Murdoch

hi Everyone,

I don't usually forward political calls for action, but this is relatively
important, not only for the UK but perhaps for the future of the world.

Do you want one man, or one family, to control most of the western world's
media, and use that media to promote their own political purposes?

If not please read this, and sign a petition being presented to the UK
government by Avaaz

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_rupert_murdoch_3/?vl

jon

[forward and further information]

Dear friends,
The world's largest and most dangerous media baron wants to buy nearly
half of the British mass media, boosting his power to undermine global
efforts on everything from peace to the environment. We only have 48 hours
to press the UK government to stand up and stop Rupert Murdoch:

In 48 hours, nearly half the British mass media could be bought by one of
the world's worst media moguls.

Rupert Murdoch has exploited his vast media empire to push war in Iraq,
elect George W Bush, spread resentment of muslims and immigrants, block
global action on climate change, and undermine democracy by viciously
smearing politicians who refuse his orders.

A lock on British media will massively boost Murdoch's power to undermine
global efforts on peace, human rights and the environment. The UK is up in
arms over the Murdoch bid, and even the Murdoch-allied government is split
down the middle as it makes a decision this week. Global solidarity
bolstered Egypt's pro-democracy protesters -- it can help Britain's. Let's
build an urgent global outcry to stop Rupert Murdoch. Sign the petition to
UK leaders:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_rupert_murdoch_3/?vl

Murdoch undermines democratic government across the world by threatening
elected leaders with viciously biased media coverage unless they do his
bidding. He has manipulated US, British and Australian democracy for
years, but now he wants more complete control. In the US, most of the
likely Republican presidential candidates are actually paid employees of
Murdoch! When his Fox News Network was shunned by Barack Obama as a mere
propaganda mouthpiece, it spawned the far right "tea party" and broadcast
constant, often hate-filled attacks against Obama and his healthcare and
peace agenda -- resulting in a huge win for Republicans in the 2010
congressional elections.

We can turn the tide on this powerful threat to democracy. Last year,
Murdoch had lunch with the Canadian Prime Minister, who sent his chief
aide to set up a murdoch-style political propaganda TV network in Canada.
A mass outcry from Canadian Avaaz members prevented this network from
being funded by taxpayer money, and just last week, another mass campaign
from Avaaz prevented the Canadian government from removing the
journalistic standards that would prevent this new network from spreading
lies to the public. This week the battleground is the UK. The fight
against Murdoch has just begun, but already we've begun to win. Click
below to keep up the pressure:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_rupert_murdoch_3/?vl

The power of Avaaz and of this moment in our world's history, is the power
of unity. Across the Arab world and beyond, people are coming together in
common cause across all boundaries. Murdoch's power is the ability to
divide. His networks use fear and misinformation to divide left from
right, citizens from foreigners, muslim from western, immigrants from
non-immigrants, etc. Murdoch knows that democracy must be divided before
it can be conquered. This week, let's show him what unity looks like.

With hope,

Ricken, Alex, Emma, Sam, Milena, Alice, Iain, Morgan, Maria Paz and the
whole Avaaz team Sources:

Murdoch close to deal with regulators over Sky
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a40fc482-4060-11e0-9140-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1FHWHwqJE

What's at stake with Murdoch's bid for BSkyB
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/27/rupert-murdoch-bskyb-monopolies

Murdoch editors' repeated meetings with police chiefs
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/news-of-world-bosses-dined-with-met-chief-2222814.html

Rupert Murdoch's assault on peace and democracy
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html

Rupert Murdoch?s growing media empire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10317856

Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012150004

Police fail to investigate mass phone hacking
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?_r=1


Avaaz.org is a 7-million-person global campaign network that works to
ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global
decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.)
Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across
13 countries on 4 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about
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