September 15, 2009
Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and Chief Executive
News Corporation
1211 Avenue of Americas
8th Floor
NY, NY 10036
Dear Mr. Murdoch:
I am writing to you because I understand you own and control a large number of newspapers, television stations and other kinds of media outlets.
I have been sickened and saddened by the choices your news organizations have made to show, over and over, on TV, horrible, hate inspired images against President Obama, and people carrying signs with messages of violence.
You are taking advantage of a few sad, ignorant people, who don't know any better, because they believe Fox News and people like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly care about them and are telling them the truth. They don't understand that these people are just doing what they do because they are TV and radio personalities. The people in those crowds don't understand that they are being used, and the ideas that they are supporting are actually harmful to them. This is not right.
Do you do this for the money? How much money do you and yours need? Are you trying to start full-blown civil unrest so that you can make even more money?
Do you have any idea what it is like out here, having to live and work alongside people who are so horribly misinformed about how the world works? Who actually believe Obama was not born in this country, who actually believe in death panels, who actually believe President Obama is the equivalent of Adolph Hitler and is someone to be feared? They get these ideas from your media organizations.
And it makes them dangerous and sick on an individual level.
Maybe you have the right to do whatever you want, but you are hurting people in our country, and I would like you and your stations to start showing some restraint before one of these individuals thinks they are doing the right thing by actually committing an act of violence.
Trish Nelson
Iowa City, Iowa
P.S. I would also be interested to know the reason why one million anti-war protesters did not deserve any TV time at all, but a few thousand tea-baggers and anti-Obama, anti-health care people deserve so much?