9-11 Families: Investigate Murdoch In U.S.
July 13, 2011 2:00 pm ET by Media Matters staff
Politico's Elias Groll reports today that "angry family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday called for a U.S. investigation into allegations that journalists at the British News of the World tabloid sought to hack the phones of their lost love ones."
From Politico:
"Someone should look into it to see if their rights were violated - the family members I've talked to are appalled, they're disgruntled, they have to relive the pain all over again," Jim Riches, a former deputy chief in the New York Fire Department whose 29-year-old fireman son was killed in the attacks, told POLITICO.
"I think they crossed the line. They're trying to get messages from loved ones in the last moments of their lives. It's horrible, and they should be held accountable. It's despicable and unethical," Riches added.
Sally Regenhard, vice chairwoman of 9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters & World Trade Center Victims, said that she also supports an American probe and added that the latest allegations come at a particularly hard time for victims' families.
*Their exit out may be that 9/11 victims and their families are not to be revered if they contradict Fox News, any of its employees, or any product wholly or partially owned by News Corp.
Seems like left-wing extremeists are using the 2 organizations interchangably to score petty political points.
And we may get the fun of seeing them try to prove that in a court of law.
Of course, they ALREADY went to court to defend their right to NOT tell the truth... and won.
Boulderhippy does naivety in its purest form.
Fox, especially its featured and recently featured pundits, certainly dish it out like a gossip rag. Same with the morning show.
Bwah hah ha! Ok, I take back what I said the other day. Once in a while, conservatives can do comedy. Too bad it's almost never on purpose.
Ever notice the similarities in Fox's website and that of the National Enquirer?
This is a system wide problem, hoosier. The investigation has nothing to do with your stupid us v. them game. It has to do with criminal activity being committed in the name of "journalism."
But, one question, if I may: you call News of the World a gossip mag and Fox News a legit news organization. How did you make both determinations?
If the outFoxed moonbats are masters at anything, it's cognitive dissonance*.
It's how they can believe that the only "true" Americans are Christians - and Jews, now that it's politically mandatory per the neocons - even though it's self-evident that Americans as a group are so much more varied. But who ever accused the Grover Norquists of being too nuanced? Or nuanced at all?
The creatures who maligned the WTC victims and their families have their own reserved section of Hell waiting for them; imagine having to spend eternity eating lunch with Joe Lieberman (retch!!!) and the angelic Dick Cheney...
All cynicism aside, I fervently hope that this Murdoch WeaselGate will break the rigid partisan divide in America and at least let us unite together, against it. All we need --- is for the FauxNews viewers to say, "Hey, wait a minute...", realize they've been hoodwinked all these years, and run the Murdochs back to Oz. Revoke his citizenship and exile the fool!!!
* - after projection, another maddeningly obtuse & pathological response from the neocons & neolibs.
Let us not forgot that O'Keefe and Breitbart were hailed as geniuses by the MSM ...
Totally valid question. Here's one in return: With the shadow of the biggest scandal (AND criminal investigation) in journalistic history hanging over their corporate head, why shouldn't Fox News be EMBRACING the chance to have an open public investigation that would clear their name?
"Everybody does it" is not a valid defense for anything. The whole "if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" argument and all that.
We'll wait for your answer.....