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Sunday, July 17, 2011
PHONE HACKS: A Guide To Resignations, Arrests, And Convictions During The News Corp. Scandal
The News Corporation phone hacking and bribery story has brought down executives, reporters, and editors on both sides of the Atlantic. Here is a list of arrests, convictions, firings, suspensions, and resignations that have occured during the scandal. Read More
REPORT: How CNN, MSNBC, And Fox Are Covering News Corp. Hacking Scandal
News Corp.'s long-simmering phone-hacking scandal has reignited, throwing its global media empire into turmoil. As allegations of hacking into private citizens' voicemail increase, media and tabloid practices have been called into question. With a large and influential presence in the United States, News Corp. and its subsidiaries (including Fox News) should be under intense scrutiny in the American press. A Media Matters analysis has found great disparity in the amount of coverage given to the scandal by CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Read More
Exposed: Congressional Legislature Approved by Corporations
Lisa Graves, The Center for Media and Democracy
Excerpt: "The Center for Media and Democracy has learned ... corporate-politician committees secretly voted on bills to rewrite numerous state laws. According to the documents we have posted to ALEC Exposed, corporations vote as equals with elected politicians on these bills. These task forces target legal rules that reach into almost every area of American life: worker and consumer rights, education, the rights of Americans injured or killed by corporations, taxes, health care, immigration, and the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink."
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Excerpt: "The Center for Media and Democracy has learned ... corporate-politician committees secretly voted on bills to rewrite numerous state laws. According to the documents we have posted to ALEC Exposed, corporations vote as equals with elected politicians on these bills. These task forces target legal rules that reach into almost every area of American life: worker and consumer rights, education, the rights of Americans injured or killed by corporations, taxes, health care, immigration, and the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink."
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Elizabeth Warren: A Real Probe Needed on Foreclosure Abuses
Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post
Intro: "A top Obama administration official (Elizabeth Warren) on Thursday questioned the scope of the state and federal investigations into alleged mortgage abuses and 'illegal' foreclosures perpetrated by the nation's largest mortgage companies, marking the first time a senior White House official publicly broke ranks with the administration over the issue and raising fresh questions about the wisdom of the government's rush to settle with the firms."
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Intro: "A top Obama administration official (Elizabeth Warren) on Thursday questioned the scope of the state and federal investigations into alleged mortgage abuses and 'illegal' foreclosures perpetrated by the nation's largest mortgage companies, marking the first time a senior White House official publicly broke ranks with the administration over the issue and raising fresh questions about the wisdom of the government's rush to settle with the firms."
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Fox's Comical Defense of Murdoch
Alex Seitz-Wald, ThinkProgress
Intro: "Fox News finally addressed their parent company's hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp."
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Intro: "Fox News finally addressed their parent company's hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp."
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FBI Opens Investigation Into Murdoch's News Corp.
Tom Hays, Associated Press
Tom Hayes reports: "Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that the Justice Department is investigating allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp hacked, or tried to hack, into the phones of 9/11 victims. His comments underlined the seriousness of Murdoch's trouble on both sides of the Atlantic, and came on the same day that his top deputy in Britain resigned her office."
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Tom Hayes reports: "Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that the Justice Department is investigating allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp hacked, or tried to hack, into the phones of 9/11 victims. His comments underlined the seriousness of Murdoch's trouble on both sides of the Atlantic, and came on the same day that his top deputy in Britain resigned her office."
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Lead Foreclosure Fraud Investigators Forced To Resign By Florida AG's Office.Something Smells Fishy in the Sunshine State!
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT
Former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson explained the standard foreclosure scams last year.
Hey, speaking of crooked politicians, look what Gov. Rick Scott's minions are up to! They're getting rid of the very people who were working to hold crooked bankers and brokers responsible for Florida's massive illegal mortgage foreclosure fraud accountable. Gee, I wonder why? That doesn't make sense, does it?
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Former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson explained the standard foreclosure scams last year.
Hey, speaking of crooked politicians, look what Gov. Rick Scott's minions are up to! They're getting rid of the very people who were working to hold crooked bankers and brokers responsible for Florida's massive illegal mortgage foreclosure fraud accountable. Gee, I wonder why? That doesn't make sense, does it?
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