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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Soros gives 1M to MMFA

This I am very glad to see. FOX News is a national disgrace. Never before have we seen an entire network dedicated to one political party tearing down another. While I am an advocate of free speech, does free speech really mean the right to distort and lie continuously and incite people to violence? FOX News deserves to have their license yanked.

There is no doubt that Glenn Beck is inciting violence among the unbalanced and crazy people out there. But anything goes with Rupert Murdoch, as long as you make money (AND support the "conservatives"). Now the ass Murdoch (you want a picture of evil? just look at Rupert) is extorting cable and satellite systems out of more money to carry his channels. And when the networks give in, they'll have to raise everyone's rates to make up the shortfall, effectively making everyone subsidize Murdoch and put more money in his filty pocket. People ask what has happened to journalism? A big part of the problem is FOX News and Rupert Murdoch. Another part is the consolidation and over-corporatization of the media.

George Soros Donates $1 Million To Media Matters To Fight Fox News

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has donated $1 million to Media Matters for America in an effort to fight Fox News.

Soros, a prominent Democratic fundraiser and donor, is a frequent target of Fox News hosts, particularly Glenn Beck. He said in a statement that he is donating the money — his first donation to the group — because of "recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence":

Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News
commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters. However, in view of recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence, I have now decided to support the organization. Media Matters is one of the few groups that attempts to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast. I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.

Soros funds the Tides Foundation, the organization recently targeted by an assassin who claimed to have been inspired by Beck's program.

"The next 'assassin' may succeed, and if so, there will be blood on many hands," Tides Foundation CEO Drummond Pike said, urging advertisers to boycott Beck's program.

On his radio show Wednesday, which is not aired by Fox News, Beck accused Soros of having "collapsed four economies" and of having "global governance plans."

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