Sharpton To Meet With F.C.C. About Murdoch's Media Empire

Politico:

Al Sharpton, who last week was protesting against the NY Post's chimp cartoon, is continuing his efforts against the Murdoch media empire. Tomorrow, he meets with the F.C.C. in Washington.

There, Sharpton will "discuss his call to review the waivers granted to Rupert Murdoch that allow him to own more than one television station and newspaper in the same city," according to The Observer's Azi Paybarah.

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[1088]

Yes, there should be a law against a man owning all the media outlets so that they can spread the Republicant propaganda.

[Topper24]

Al can't spell F.C.C.

[MPeter]

Way to go Al. Put fire under this bigot from down under. He insults us and grows rich polarizing this country. Yeah, give it to him....

[lthuedk 1]

http://www.light-to-dark.com/unanticipated_2.html

[lacrossedadof2]

Hey Al, did you bring Tawana with you? This guy is a joke, he is a shake down artist like Jesse Jackson.

[sueno]

Thanks Al!

[Tulka2]

I'm old enough to have seen Al Sharpton do a lot of things in real time. God love him, time has purified him and he is doing the people's work. To those of you below who say he only cares about "his" people, you are not paying attention. Read the article, watch the video. His skillful work and clear thinking regarding Murdoch benfits every citizen.

[HarlemFreeThought]

News corp is a media behemoth. In RM own words "We have and must continue to create content that consumers increasingly want across the whole spectrum of media"
Rupert Murdoch from annual report2008 http://www.newscorp.com/AR2008Flash/NC08.html

About That Waiver http://books.google.com/books?id=Vk5HA8Hh3wMC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=waivers+granted+to+Rupert+Murdoch&source=bl&ots=wAqND88GVb&sig=G5iWfHQfPNUNbCvPPxsEIVEMbE0&hl=en&ei=m8ykSbWyL4-ctwf_0KTZBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

and you can blame the Dems.http query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D7113EF93BA35752C0A96E948260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/M/Murdoch,%20Rupertert
And this isn't the frist http://www.christianpost.com/Opinion/Opinions/2007/05/united-church-of-christ-targets-rupert-murdoch-25/index.htmldex.html

[HarlemFreeThought]

The unholy alliance of Mr. Murdoch and the F.C.C. began two and a half years ago with his purchase of the Metromedia broadcasting group. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DE1430F931A35751C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

[Gmoney1]

He knows what millions are saying - go for it Sharpton - blacks are tired of being mocked - this apology nonsense is not working anymore - it's the $$$$ that will make them stop the public madness -

[tfoley]

give money to who? In most cases Sharpton is the only one who gets PAID

[RobinSeattle]

While I applaud questioning Murdoch's waiver, Sharpton, i.e., Mr. Tawana Brawley, is hardly a good messenger for that. He is little more than a glorified hustler.

[TallyLass]

Tawana Brawley?!! Shut up. We AA appreciate his teeth in Ruperts as s.

[majii]

If his efforts result in any change, we all benefit. Stop bashing Al and the NAACP. Your ignorance is showing. When the NAACP was formed in 1909, there were six founding members.
Three were white.
Google it.

[tfoley]

Agreed Sharpton is wrong person for the job

[Nommo]

Then you do it. That's what you gotta luv about Americans. Steady getting screwed by their Gov't , corporations, deluded into believing that they have choices, and get all bent out of shape because a Black man decides to do the task.

Hypocrite

[hjsung]

if you dont like murdoch's media, then dont buy it, dont watch it. i would've been more sympathetic to al sharpton had he fought for equality for all, but no, he only cares about his people

[TallyLass]

And you only care for yours. Go Al.

[eyepatch]

"discuss his call to review the waivers granted to Rupert Murdoch that allow him to own more than one television station and newspaper in the same city,"


You may not like Rev. Al Sharpton but now he is on to something
The media airwaves are the property of the people and these networks
are leasee's! I believe that there should never be a concentration of
one point of view in the media! The points of view should be vast and
diverse so as to show all sides!

NEWSCORP saturated many markets by owning TV stations (Fox)
radio stations and Newspapers (NY Post) were given a waiver
for and I believe this kind of market saturation is bad for America!

So on this issue I am behind Rev Sharpton 100%

[HarlemFreeThought]

Years ago in NYC Channel 5 (WNYW) and Channel 9 (WOR) were small independent stations. Now owned by New Corp. Murdoch's strong hold on the media needs to be investigated.

[ena]

I agree, Rupert Murdoch not only owns the FOX and the POST but the Wall Street Journal and Yahoo as well. Newscorp needs to be investigated thoroughly. A concentration of one point of view is what they do in communist countries.

[orangepetal]

Couldn't it have something to do with that chimp that was shot for attacking the woman? That's what I thought.

[hjsung]

when skin color is all you see and all you care about, everything is about race and racism. i really didn't read into that cartoon either.

[Nommo]

Did that woman write the stimulus package?

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

really I'm not offended, I got better things to worry about

[TallyLass]

See how no one stop by your house to ask you if you were offended or not? So go worry about your other crap. We got this.

[spyda]

GET RID OF FAUX NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Rupert Murdoch now!!!!!!!!!!!