Rupert Murdoch's Fox broadcast licences targeted by US ethics group
Source: The Guardian
A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation's 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) has written to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, calling on the regulator to pull the plug on Rupert Murdoch's lucrative television licences on grounds of character.
The letter argues that the final report of the UK Commons culture, media and sport committee, which concluded that Murdoch was not fit to run a major international company, had implications for the US regulators that they had now to act upon.
Melanie Sloan, Crew's director, said that the Murdochs had clearly failed the character test that is embedded within US media law as it is within British. "If they are not passing the character standard under British law, it seems to me that they are not going to meet the character standard in America."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-licences-us
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)not saying it will but I would dance down the streets singing joy to the world every day.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)you cannot show a (female) nipple on TV for a 10th of a second without threatening to be fined half a million dollars for every station in the U.S. which carried it ...
But Faux can show a guy with a shirt with one of the few remaining "seven words you can't say on TV or radio) for at least 10 seconds, and not get fined for an "inadvertent" display ... despite the fact that the cameraman sought out the "offender" ...
wordpix
(18,652 posts)not to mention, this org is a front for the RW media machine.
alp227
(32,013 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)was the cameraman hoping she'd flash her ... um ... breasts? She was jumping up and down ...
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,440 posts)Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)Nah. We have a much greater tolerance of assholes. As a matter of fact we really encourage that behavior and reward it with enthusiasm.
beac
(9,992 posts)My dream is to someday see that revoked.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)news stories in the past supported by phony video footage. They have also incited violence with their rhetoric.
LiberalFighter
(50,825 posts)alp227
(32,013 posts)That's the downside.