Posted on 05/02/2012 8:22:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Ethics watchdog asks FCC to revoke Fox's broadcast licenses By Andrew Feinberg - 05/02/12 09:56 AM ET
An ethics watchdog group is using the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses.
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday, arguing that U.S. law states that broadcast airwaves shall only be licensed to people of "good character" and used "in the public interest."
They're asking the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses for the 27 stations the Fox network owns in the United States.
Rupert Murdoch heads News Corp., the parent company of Fox. Murdoch's former newspaper, News of the World, is under investigation in England for allegedly bugging phones in order to obtain stories.
"The illegal actions of News Corp. are not only limited to Great Britain," CREW wrote, citing news reports that News of the World journalists hacked into the voice mailboxes of 9/11 victims. CREW called these actions evidence of a "significant character deficiency" that could disqualify Fox from holding a license.
"[T]he Murdochs clearly do not have the requisite character to retain their broadcast licenses," CREW wrote. "Accordingly, we request that the FCC immediately commence an action to revoke their licenses."
Adding to their argument, on Tuesday, a British parliamentary panel said Murdoch was unfit to run his media empire. His son, James Murdoch, an executive with News Corp., is also under investigation.
CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan said in a statement that "if the Murdochs don’t meet the British standards-of-character test, it is hard to see how they can meet the American standard.”
The watchdog group also sent letters to the House and Senate Commerce committees asking for hearings into whether the Murdochs meet the FCC’s character standards.
An FCC spokesman did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment. Neither did Fox News.
Perhaps we need to ask that CREW’s tax-exempt status be revoked. But, we would have cause, unlike CREW.
Sounds like, on this basis, all the NBC networks and stations should have their licenses pulled for lying about George Zimmerman.
The Tea Party asked President Obama to resign too. Isn’t that news?
Some liberal group suggests Fox news should be shut down is news? They found something that can be connected to throw in a reason.
They should protest and go set cities on fire and try to blow up bridges to demonstrate how serious they are about being watchdogs for ethics in America.
wasn’t it in the news about a month ago that Rubert turned the broadcasting over to his son?
Here, let me apply the same guidelines that they want to use - “An leftest advocacy group demands, on the point to cruxifiction, that the FCC revokes the right wing extortionist,....Fox broadcast licenses!”
Whoops, that's entirely too much truth telling to put into a headline, ain't it?
Certainly the term "responsibility and ethics" has nothing to do with responsibility and ethics.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
Meanwhile NBC and ABC are allowed manufacture evidence, alter evidence and incite race riots...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Sloan
Usual lefty resume. Went to school in Chicago, worked with Chucky Schumer. Legal counsel for Valarie Plame Wilson.
While they are at it, they need to file one for CBS and dan rather for lying about GWB.
Standard leftist/Alinskyite proceedure. Silence all those that don’t spout the party line, funded with Soros money.
CREW has received financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Democracy Alliance, the Tides Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the David Geffen Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund, the Mayberg Family Charitable Foundation, the Woodbury Fund, and the Sheller Family Foundation — all institutions distinguished by their support for far-left causes.
Lets investigate move on .org,New York Times etc, etc..Wasn't it the Times that gave out classified information.. Their liberal buds Congress and senate rats gave them..Putting our country in danger...
So, who do we need to write to to demand that their tax-exempt status be revoked. Time to poke back.
The Hill obviously forgot to tell us more about CREW...
CREW was founded by Democrat activists Norm Eisen (an attorney) and Louis Mayberg (a prominent Democrat donor, and co-founder of the Maryland-based mutual fund management firm ProFund Advisors LLC). CREW’s “Form 990” IRS filing for 2001 lists Mayberg as one of its three Founding Directors; the other two are Daniel Berger (a high-profile Democrat donor who in 2004 made a $100,000 contribution to America Coming Together) and Mark Penn (a fellow at the New Politics Institute, and a top Democrat strategist and pollster who not only played a key role in Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign, but also served as head of “message and strategy” for Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign).
CREW has received financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Democracy Alliance, the Tides Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the David Geffen Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund, the Mayberg Family Charitable Foundation, the Woodbury Fund, and the Sheller Family Foundation — all institutions distinguished by their support for far-left causes.
CREW’s Executive Director is Melanie Sloan, a longtime Democrat operative who previously served as Nominations Counsel for Joe Biden’s Senate Judiciary Committee (1993); Counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee for Charles Schumer (1994); Minority Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee under John Conyers (1995-1998); and Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia (1998-2003).
Other CREW officials have similarly deep ties to the political Left. For example, Deputy Director and Communications Director Naomi Seligman Steiner was formerly the Communications Director of Media Matters for America. CREW Special Projects Associate Lida Masoudpour was once a staffer at Media Matters and served as an intern in the office of Senator Hillary Clinton. CREW Senior Counsel Tim Mooney previously served as Senior Counsel at Alliance for Justice (AFJ). CREW Counsel Dan Roth was formerly the Dorot Judicial Selection Fellow at AFJ. CREW Research Associate Robin Powers is a former Program Associate of AFJ who interned with Vital Voices Global Partnership and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. CREW Counsel Kimberly Perkins once worked as the Assistant General Counsel for the National Office of the NAACP, where she led the “Voting Rights & Redistricting Project” and “Election Protection” efforts. CREW Executive Assistant Melissa Cuerdon, who previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry, served internships at the Sierra Club and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7309
On August 15, 2006, CREW took on the legal case of Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, who jointly filed a federal civil lawsuit against U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, his former Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, top Presidential advisor Karl Rove, and other then-current and former administration officials. In an episode that came to be popularly known as “Plamegate,” the Wilsons charged that the defendants had intentionally exposed Mrs. Wilson’s classified CIA status to reporters in order to punish her husband for having publicly disputed statements made by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address justifying the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
CNN fakes a story about viet nam.
CBS fakes documents which ended rathers career.
NBC fakes crash tests, edits audio files, and outright lies.
and yet
they missed all that...
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