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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 10:42 PM
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Call on Congress to Hold Hearings on Media Ownership



The FCC has been moving forward with a secret timeline to vote
on sweeping changes to media ownership rules. This is just the
most recent in a long series of outrageous moves the FCC has
made to avoid public scrutiny.

If you go to the URL below you can check out what is at stake
and send your own message directly to your elected officials.
Take action on this campaign at:
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/fcc_oversight?rk=IpwdYl41ufSdW
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 10:58 PM
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1. Try whacking Rupert Murdoch!! New game!
Edited on Thu Oct-18-07 11:01 PM by Breeze54
Have you ever been so fed up with the evening news that you wanted to throw your TV out the window?

Instead of tossing your TV, try whacking Rupert Murdoch.

Today, Free Press launched "Whack-a-Murdoch" -- a challenging Web game that's your chance to drop the hammer on Big Media moguls and consolidation.


http://action.freepress.net/ct/c1woYQd1BQRh/">Play Whack-a-Murdoch



http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=whackamurdoch

While Whack-a-Murdoch is just a game, media consolidation is a problem that requires urgent action. Right now, the Federal Communications Commission is rushing ahead with sweeping changes to media ownership rules that would allow Big Media to get even bigger.

If these rules pass, moguls like Murdoch could own the major daily newspaper, and as many as eight radio stations and three TV stations in your city. Often these local monopolists also control national newspapers, popular Web sites, magazines, cable networks, publishing houses and movie studios.

We can stop the FCC and media consolidation by building the movement for a more diverse and democratic media. Free Press is working with our allies to broaden our base of support to include people from all walks of life.

We need your help:



http://action.freepress.net/campaign/whack/forward/i78u7ix2y6757xw?">Spread the Word: Tell your friends to whack Murdoch and join the movement

When we let a few giant conglomerates control so many outlets, quality journalism turns into junk media, and our democracy suffers. Murdoch's expanding media empire is case and point. His news programs are a spectacle of beauty queens, right-wing shock pundits and movie stars.

The bottom line?

Our democracy can't survive much longer on Murdoch's junk media diet.

It's now time for all of us to come together and Stop Big Media.

Thank you,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net


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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 11:14 PM
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2. Kicking for truth in Media!!
:kick:
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 11:17 PM
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3. Contact Bernie
This is a passion of his.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 07:02 AM
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4. KICK!!!
Good Morning Everyone!!

Now sign the letter!!! :P

PLEASE???? With sugar on top?? :shrug:
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