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Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 22, 2011:
“A slew of organizations funded by billionaire George Soros have been utilizing the alleged News of the World phone hacking scandal in the U.K. to call for investigations of News Corporation’s U.S. interests, particularly Fox News Channel.
The Center for American Progress, heavily financed by Soros, said it gathered 12,000 signatures demanding to know whether News Corp. reporters violated U.S. law by obtaining phone records in the U.S.
The center is reportedly highly influential in helping to craft White House policy. It is led by John Podesta, who served as co-chairman of Obama’s presidential transition team.
Podesta this week told reporters his group wants the U.S. division of News Corp. probed for other possible offenses, including violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prosecutes for bribery of foreign officials.
“We’ve called attention to the fact that – News Corp. is a U.S.-based corporation; that could implicate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” he said.
Already, Podesta’s signature drive was cited in part for Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Barbara Boxer sending a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation into claims News Corp. may have hacked the phones of 9/11 victims.
The center’s offshoot, Think Progress, has been leading Twitter and Facebook campaigns calling for investigations into Rupert Murdoch’s U.S. media empire.
Think Progress even alleged News Corp. could have been involved in the November 2009 email hacking of a climate research institute that showed climate scientists conspiring to rig data in the direction of so-called global warming.
“But we still don’t know who hacked the emails!” contended Think Progress in an article entitled “News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation.”
Podesta’s center is also going after the Wall Street Journal. ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, this week published an article entitled “Connecting the Dots from News Corp Scandal to the Lies of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.” Think Progress also published the piece.
“There is a cancer on the U.S. media,” began the article. “That cancer is the disinformation machine aimed at spreading and endlessly repeating the most absurd falsehoods on a host of vital issues to the health and well being of Americans.”
Another outfit that traces to Soros money calls itself iNews. It is a project of the Soros-financed Center for Public Integrity.
In 2009, Soros’ Open Society Institute gave a $100,000 donation earmarked for iNews, which purports to be a “collaborative network of newly established and veteran nonprofit investigative journalism organizations.”
Since the News Corp. scandal broke in the U.K. earlier this month, iNews has released a series of articles heavily critical of News Corp. Many of the pieces were republished by the Huffington Post, which is now owned by AOL. Huffington Post articles are routinely featured on AOL.
Another Soros’ funded group, New American Media, has released a series of pieces focusing on News Corp., one questioning why Fox News Channel allegedly has provided scant coverage of the phone hacking scandal and another entitled “The End of Murdoch? Another Despot Teeters on the Brink.”
Perhaps at the center of the drive against News Corp. sits the Soros-funded Media Matters for America.
When Soros donated $1 million to Media Matters last October, he specifically cited the group’s work against Fox News as the driving force for his financial contribution.
“I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy,” Soros said a statement at the time.
Media Matters in May announced the roll out of a new site, News Corp Watch, dedicated to activism targeting Murdoch’s empire.
Media Matters launched the new site with a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune that highlighted the News of the World phone-hacking scandal as raising concerns about the company’s attempt at taking over the United Kingdom’s pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB.
Ben Smith at POLITICO reported how News Corp Watch calls itself a “vital resource for investors and others interested in the company’s activities.”
Media Matters and its new anti-Murdoch site have given nearly nonstop coverage to the News of the World scandal.
A spokeswoman for Media Matters told Variety.com earlier this week the average weekly web traffic to its News Corp. Watch site has increased tenfold since the hacking story broke.
Roger Aronoff, senior analyst of Accuracy in Media, was quoted by Variety as stating, “The left smells blood, and would love to see Fox News in particular somehow implicated and weakened by this scandal.”
Meanwhile, a sampling of other Soros-funded groups focusing on News Corp. include Free Press and the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Fox News, Tea Party 'dictatorial'
Soros himself once was invested in News Corp. His Soros Fund Management LLC, managed News Corp. shares worth $4 million in 2004 and $2.3 million when sold in 2009.
Still, Soros has been a vocal opponent of the Fox News Channel. In a conversation with CNN newsman Fareed Zakaria reported by the Huffington Post last December, Soros warned the combination of Fox News, its then-host Glenn Beck and the tea party might lead “this open society to be on the verge of some dictatorial democracy.”
According to the report, “Soros was especially bitter and harshly critical of the role played in our political discourse by the Fox News Channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., as a very dangerous precedent for the ‘open society’ that has prevailed in the U.S. for 200 years.”
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I. Liberals Salivate: ‘Could This Be the End of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News?’!
Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On July 22, 2011:
“(CNSNews.com) – The liberal activist group MoveOn.org says it is launching a campaign “to build unavoidable public pressure for full investigations” into Rupert Murdoch’s U.S. news outlets – including Fox News, a favorite target of liberals.
“Could this be the end of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News?” the group asked in a July 21 email message to supporters.
According to MoveOn.org, “the key is to find out how far Fox and 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.”
Murdoch and his media empire have come under fire in Britain, following reports that employees at Murdoch’s News Corporation hacked into the phone of a 13-year-old murder victim and bribed police and government officials for information leading to tabloid scoops.
Last week, at the urging of Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and other lawmakers, the FBI began a preliminary inquiry into a report that News Corp. employees tried to hack into phones belonging to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
MoveOn.org says it will run a “hard-hitting new ad” that asks if Murdoch is “running a company or a crime syndicate.” It is asking supporters to “chip in $5 to hold Murdoch accountable.”
“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,” the email said.
“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.”
Fox News, with its “fair and balanced” slogan, is pegged as a conservative news outlet because it presents viewpoints overlooked or excluded by the liberal media and it employs conservative (as well as liberal) hosts and pundits.
An Obama White House staffer in 2009 described Fox News as “either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” At that same time, the Obama White House tried to freeze Fox News out of an interview it granted to the other networks.
A liberal media watchdog group recently launched an all-out attack on Fox, hoping to get advertisers to stop running ads on the network. And liberal U.S. newspapers and television networks have given front-page/top story coverage to Murdoch and the British phone hacking scandal.
Murdoch told British lawmakers this week he was “shocked, appalled and ashamed” to learn that his now-defunct News of the World tabloid had hacked the cell phone of a murdered schoolgirl.
He blamed “the people I trusted, but they blame maybe the people that they trusted.”
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/liberals-salivate-could-be-end-...
II. U.S. Justice Department launches investigation into the extent of News Corp phone hacking and bribes!-Posted on Mail Online-By MARK DUELL and JENNIFER MADISON-Updated on July 20, 2011:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016529/News-World-phone-ha...
III. FBI launches investigation into Rupert Murdoch's News Corp!-Posted on Telegraph-By Alex Spillius, in Washington and Richard Blackden in New York-On July 14, 2011:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8638851/Phone-...
IV. Video: Is Media Matters Breaking the Law?-Posted on FoxNews.com-On July 6, 2011:
http://nation.foxnews.com/media/2011/07/06/media-matters-breaking-law
V. Video: Media Matters Under Scrutiny!-Posted on The Patriot Udate-On July 6, 2011:
http://patriotupdate.com/videos/media-matters-under-scrutiny
VI. Upcoming Weather Underground Movie To Show ‘Real Americans Who Stood For Their Beliefs’!-Posted on The Blaze-By Buck Sexton-On July 20, 2011:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/not-ready-upcoming-weather-undergro...
VII. RED STATE Persecution!-Posted On Movie Guide-By David Outten-On July 18, 2011:
http://www.movieguide.org/articles/main/red-state-persecution.html
VIII. Hollywood Attacks Capitalism!-Posted on The Patriot Update-On July 16, 2011:
http://patriotupdate.com/videos/larry-crowne-hollywood-attacks-capi...
IX. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&am...
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and reports reveal how George Soros, along with other liberal backers use their money to fund and/or manipulate media outlets, to include Hollywood because they see that as a powerful way to influence the American public.
It’s a strategy that Soros has been deploying extensively in media both in the United States and abroad. Since 2003, Soros has spent more than $48 million funding media properties, including the infrastructure of news - journalism schools, investigative journalism and even industry organizations-You Decide:
Nearly 30 Soros-funded Media Operations Part of 'War on Fox'!- Posted on Business & Media Institute-By Dan Gainor-On June 1, 2011:
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Nearly__Sorosfunded_Media_Op...
Soros-Funded Lefty Media Reach More Than 300 Million Every Month!-Posted on Business & Media Institute-By Dan Gainor-On May 25, 2011:
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Soros_Lefty_Media_Reach_More...
Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations!-Posted on Business & Media Institute-By Dan Gainor-On May 18, 2011:
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Soros_Spends_Over__Million_F...
Over 30 Major News Organizations Linked to George Soros!-Posted on Business & Media Institute-By Dan Gainor-On May 11, 2011:
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Over__Major_News_Organizatio...
Citizen Soros Manipulating the Media!-Posted on Capital Research Center-By Matthew Vadum-On January 2011:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1293869054.pdf
George Soros, Movie Mogul: ‘Social Justice’ Cinema and the Sundance Institute!-Posted on Capital Research Center-By Rondi Adamson-On March 20o8:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1204311857.pdf
The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power!-Posted on AIM-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 27, 2004:
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-hidden-soros-agenda-drugs-mon...
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fa...
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-underst...
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