Is this the same group that does Sky News? Curious. Murdoch is as close to raw evil as I've seen - this isn't just for the UK - his right-wing attitudes in the US border on Nazism. It's cruel and a lot of people follow him. Between Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, etc., the horror is real. As far as I'm concerned he's a modern-day Goebbels.
- Alan On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, marc garrett wrote: > Murdoch's latest move. > > Just received this from this from the 38 Degrees team. > > This post is only for those in the UK, as well as those who are > concerned regarding Murdoch creeping further into dominating our > culture, especially the Internet.... > > marc > > Dear marc, > > Rupert Murdoch is about to increase his stranglehold on the UK's media > by taking complete control of BSkyB. He currently owns 40% and is trying > to up that to 100%. This would be a disaster. It would give Murdoch even > more political influence and could open the doors to biased, right-wing > news reporting, like Fox News in the US. Together we can stop him. > > Vince Cable has the power to stop Murdoch's plan. As Business Secretary, > he's got 17 working days to call the deal in for a review. [1] If enough > of us stand up to Murdoch and build a big enough petition, we can > persuade Cable to block the takeover. But the clock's ticking - we have > just 3 weeks to get him to act. > > Take 30 seconds to sign our "Vince stand up to Murdoch" petition now: > http://www.38degrees.org.uk/murdoch > > Murdoch thinks he has this deal sewn up. There are plenty of people in > government who owe him big favours after his papers backed them during > the election. Add to that the full force of Murdoch's media empire and > you can be sure that Vince Cable will be feeling the pressure to cave in. > > We need to outweigh that pressure with people power. Thousands of us > need to tell Vince Cable to stand up to Murdoch. > > 38 Degrees members have been challenging Rupert Murdoch's ambitions in > the UK for months. Last year we fought his attacks on the BBC. During > the election we spoke out against his scaremongering about a hung > parliament and voting reform. Sky News' Kay Burley told us during the > election that we should just "go home and watch it on Sky News". [2] We > didn't then, and we don't have to now as Murdoch tries to tighten his > grip on the UK. > > Click here to sign our petition to Vince Cable: > http://www.38degrees.org.uk/murdoch > > > Thanks for getting involved, > > David, Hannah, Johnny and the 38 Degrees team. > > Notes: > > [1] > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/29/vince-cable-foxification-murdoch-sky > > [2] > http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/may/08/kay-burley-sky-news-twitter > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
