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Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

baratunde — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:38:49 -0000

The FCC has been threatening to impose this requirement for a few years, but it's hard to pull off. Many cable networks are opposed because their less popular channels get subsidized by the more popular ones. The packaging also serves to introduce new channels to people who might never subscribe because they wouldn't have heard of them.

I definitely love the idea, and with all the video content online we're gonna be in a de facto a la carte world soon anyway. Hopefully sooner rather than later

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

zizi2 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:58:10 -0000

I personally would like cable channels to be offered a la carte, so that the consumer decides which channels to select and pay for. While I don't watch Fox noise, I detest having to pay for it as part of my cable subscription. Can such a movement be started picketing cable providers to change the terms of their offerings. I will sign up the moment such an action is feasible. If Murdoch thinks he can spew racist hatred, I too should have the right to starve his business off my cable subscription rates. Fair, no?

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

RobM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:55:00 -0000

Plan of action
One do not watch anything on FOX TV period. This includes football. Watch those numbers drop and the ad dollars he has to give back because not enough eyes.
Two, contact the NFL and tell them you will not watch another NFC game until Murdoch gives up the contract or it is rescinded. The NFL made it known that talk like this was not acceptable from Rush Limbaugh why should it be from Rupert Murdoch? The grounds is the morals clause.
Three, petition every NFC football player, coach and owner not to speak to anyone at Fox till the contract is lifted.
Four, don't buy any Murdoch media, the WSJ, the London Times.
Five, don't listen to any Murdoch media.
Six, ask your local politician not to appear on/in Fox media.
Seven, keep the WH out of this. Otherwise President Obama will have to backtrack about criticism against him from certain quarters is about policy not race

All of this is to make Murdoch the issue so it is on the front page/TV screen/monitor/radio of everything else.

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

ochyming — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:53:48 -0000

Our heavyweights, you mean intellectuals?
Afro-American intellectuals ( most of them ) are more interested it seems with hip hop.

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

rikyrah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:09:06 -0000

AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

fsu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:07:02 -0000

But- but, he has an Asian wife! He can't be racist!

(/sarcasm, if you couldn't tell)

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

ronnieb — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:38:16 -0000

I suppose this isn't a surprise. The apples (Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity) don't fall far from the Murdoch tree.

But see, racist heavyweights like Murdoch don't respect our being offended or insulted. In fact, they respect very little about us at all. And that's because our heavyweights don't rise up; they don't make them pay.

This is why the Murdoch tree will thrive, and bear more fruit like Beck. Our heavyweights don't have the courage to cut that tree down.

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

rikyrah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:12 -0000

it's interesting that when you ASK for SPECIFIC EXAMPLES of how a Black person has ' deep seated hatred of Whites', none are forthcoming - it just IS, cause they say so.

phuck that.

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

ch555x — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:51:34 -0000

More tabloid fodder...

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

Guns3000 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:22:27 -0000

This is a bullshit interview. Murdoch owns 1/3 of Sky news Australia.(I just found out). This guy was probably pissing his pants the whole interview.

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

Town — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:03:51 -0000

There was no pushback on the statement because the interviewer was either scared to push back on Murdoch or the interviewer agrees with Murdoch.

Many people with the Glen Beck mindset don't need a valid reason to say that Obama or any other black person has a "deep seated hatred of whites." They don't like blacks so they feel that blacks must don't like whites as well.

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

Guns3000 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:37:32 -0000

Where's the follow-up question from the interviewer?

Re: ColorOfChange to Murdoch: What exactly do you mean?

cheryl aka jill tubman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:25:45 -0000

I'm outraged by this. Thanks for posting. Let's fight back.