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Dirty Laundry and the Mainstream Media

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[Orlando, Fl.] As Emma Goldman noted, "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution" so on 26 October 2010, I will be in Section C-B, Row 7, Seat 11 at the Amway Arena for an Eagle's happening.

The Eagle's dedicated one of my most favorite of their tunes to Rupert Murdoch:

Dirty Laundry - Eagles, Farewell Tour

Keith Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born American media magnate and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of News Corporation .

In the late 1950s he began dabbling in television, and his first foray into TV in the USA, was when he created Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986.

In 1958, journalist Edward R. Murrow gave a speech at the Radio-Television News Directors Association which nailed the network television establishment and its emphasis on popular entertainment over programs that would enlighten and educate the public.

That speech was the climax of the 2005 motion picture Good Night, and Good Luck :


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Murrow's ideas remain bulletproof, and in this reporters opinion Murdoch has a long and dirty laundry list of his finger's in everybody's pies !

Murdoch plays host at private meetings with influential politicians, and both Democrats and Republicans play along by dismissing the gatherings as politically insignificant, merely social events with dinners and drinks.

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Eileen Fleming,is a Citizen of CONSCIENCE for US House of Representatives 2012 Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Staff Member of Salem-news.com, A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" (more...)
 
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