Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012. New York City – You are giving Rupert Murdoch more power if you buy/read The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and watch any program on Fox News or movies of the 20th Century Fox film studio.
The New York Times reports that Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born chairman and controlling shareholder of News Corporation, is perhaps the preeminent global media magnate. The company, which owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and the 20th Century Fox film studio, among other assets, is one of the world’s largest media conglomerates.
In July 2011, he and his company were engulfed in an explosive scandal involving the hacking of public figures’ telephone messages by journalists at News of the World, a British tabloid owned by News Corporation. The firestorm was set off by the revelation that the paper had deleted voice mail messages from the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, a move that had added to vain hopes that she was still alive.
In early February 2012, The Times of London, Mr. Murdoch’s flagship newspaper in Britain, was being investigated for e-mail hacking. A week later, Scotland Yard mounted dawn raids on the homes of eight people, including five journalists from The Sun, as part of an investigation into bribery of public officials by journalists.
The officer leading a police investigation into Mr. Murdoch’s British newspapers testified that reporters and editors at The Sun had over the years paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for information not only to police officers but also to a “network of corrupted officials” in the military and the government. The officer said that one public official received more than $125,000 over several years, and a single journalist was allocated more than $238,000 in cash to pay sources.”
Picture the Homeless was “informed” by the NY Post on Friday, March 30, that They had obtained a leaked letter from the New York City Council directing the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to freeze PTH funding in the wake of a misleading and racially-charged article the Post ran last Sunday. Picture the Homeless has not received any letter or other communication from the City Council regarding this matter, though HPD officials contacted PTH on Thursday and directed PTH to turn over certain business records.
This is why, the grassroots, not-for profit organization had a press conference and rally in East Harlem on Sunday, April 1st, 2012.
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