[Ecommerce] Free Press new game: Whack-a-Murdoch

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From: "Tim Karr" <tkarr@freepress.net>
Date: October 16, 2007 1:58:42 PM EDT
Hi all,

Check out =93Whack-a-Murdoch.=94 We released this game just as News Corp
has unveiled its Fox Business Network. As Murdoch=92s latest venture is
making headlines we hope to frame the issue around consolidation and
attract a new population of potential activists.

Hopefully, this will draw more attention and people to the issue as
the FCC is weighing a decision that could further unleash the
floodgates to consolidation.

Please take the game for a spin:

http://www.whackamurdoch.com

My best score is 520.

Tim

P.S. =96 our outreach is below.



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Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
1.201.533.8838
www.freepress.net
www.savetheinternet.com
www.stopbigmedia.com


Reform Media. Transform Democracy.

From: Timothy Karr, FreePress.net [mailto:list@freepress.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Whack-a-Murdoch





Dear Ira,



Play Whack-a-Mudoch at

www.whackamurdoch.com

Have you ever been so fed up with the evening news that you wanted to
throw your TV out the window? Instead of tossing your TV, try
whacking Rupert Murdoch.

Today, Free Press launched "Whack-a-Murdoch" -- a challenging Web
game that's your chance to drop the hammer on Big Media moguls and
consolidation.

Play Whack-a-Murdoch

While Whack-a-Murdoch is just a game, media consolidation is a
problem that requires urgent action. Right now, the Federal
Communications Commission is rushing ahead with sweeping changes to
media ownership rules that would allow Big Media to get even bigger.

If these rules pass, moguls like Murdoch could own the major daily
newspaper, and as many as eight radio stations and three TV stations
in your city. Often these local monopolists also control national
newspapers, popular Web sites, magazines, cable networks, publishing
houses and movie studios.

We can stop the FCC and media consolidation by building the movement
for a more diverse and democratic media. Free Press is working with
our allies to broaden our base of support to include people from all
walks of life.  We need your help:

Spread the Word: Tell your friends to whack Murdoch and join the
movement

When we let a few giant conglomerates control so many outlets,
quality journalism turns into junk media, and our democracy suffers.
Murdoch's expanding media empire is case and point. His news programs
are a spectacle of beauty queens, right-wing shock pundits and movie
stars.

The bottom line? Our democracy can't survive much longer on Murdoch's
junk media diet.  It's now time for all of us to come together and
Stop Big Media.

Thank you,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net

1. To learn more about the FCC rulemaking visit www.stopbigmedia.com/
=3Dfcc

2. Murdoch paid $5 billion for the Wall Street Journal. But you can
invest in a more diverse and independent media for a lot less.
Support this campaign with your contribution to the Free Press Action
Fund: https://secure.freepress.net/05/whack



Take action on this campaign at: www.whackamurdoch.com

Tell your friends about this campaign at: www.action.freepress.net/
campaign/whack/forward

If you received this message from a friend, you can click here to
become a Free Press activist.

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform
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