— On Tuesday thousands of protesters gathered outside Rupert Murdoch's Fifth Avenue home demanding accountability. And in eight days, News Corp. will convene its annual shareholders meeting in Los Angeles, just miles from Rep. Darrell Issa's district home office. We plan to be with protesters outside the meeting, collecting more signatures on this petition demanding that Rep. Issa stop protecting News Corp.
Please join the nearly 40,000 people who have already signed our letter urging Issa to stop the News Corp. cover-up.
After we deliver your signatures, I'll report back to tell you how it went.
Thanks — Tim
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Dear Daniel, Earlier this week eight members of the House Oversight Committee urged Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to listen to repeated requests that he investigate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.1 Rep. Issa's response? To go on Murdoch's Fox News Channel and say that he wasn't going to do anything.2 It's clear that News Corp. will stop at nothing to bury this scandal. During last night's Emmy broadcast its subsidiary Fox censored a segment in which Alec Baldwin told a joke about the company's phone hacking. 3 But we won't let the News Corp. cover-up succeed. News Corp. has been implicated in the bribery of foreign law enforcement officials, the hacking of Sept. 11 victims' phone lines, the cover-up of an Internet hacking scandal in the U.S. and numerous other offenses. Rep. Issa's Oversight and Government Reform Committee is charged with protecting the interests of U.S. citizens against the illegal actions of corporations, regardless of their political leanings. By taking action against Rep. Issa you're joining the more than 200,000 people who have rejected Fox News Channel's drive to cover up allegations that News Corp. broke U.S. laws. The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, also owned by Murdoch, are playing their part to bury the allegations, urging the American public to "move on." This is how Murdoch works. He wields his enormous media power to place himself and fellow News Corp. executives above the law. We can't let him bury the News Corp. scandal and silence those in Congress seeking a thorough inquiry. We need to place pressure on Rep. Issa to stop the cover-up: Murdoch and his colleagues must go under the lights and before the cameras in Congress. That won't happen unless you join our call for a full congressional investigation. Add your name to this letter — and forward this to all your friends. Thank You, 1. Jordy Yager, "Dem. Lawmakers Press Issa to Probe News Corp.'s Alleged Hacking," the Hill, Sept. 12, 2011: thehill.com/homenews/house/180917-dem-lawmakers-press-issa-to-probe-news-corp-practices 2. Lee Fang, "Issa: We Won't Investigate News Corp.'s Alleged Hacking Of 9/11 Victims Because We Don't Want To Pick on the Media," ThinkProgress, Sept. 14, 2011: thinkprogress.org/media/2011/09/14/318597/issa-we-won%E2%80%99t-investigate-news-corp%E2%80%99s-alleged-hacking-of-911-victims-because-we-don%E2%80%99t-want-to-pick-on-the-media/ 3. Nellie Andreeva, "EMMYS: Fox Nixes Alec Baldwin Joke about News Corp. Phone-Hacking Scandal in Opening Bit," Dateline, Sept. 18, 2011: deadline.com/2011/09/fox-nixes-alec-baldwin-joke-about-news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-in-emmy-bit-baldwin-walks-replaced-by-leonard-nimoy/ | ||
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