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Fox News Falling: It Really is Time for the Media Revolution

Media moguls are miscreants in minds of millions.

(SALEM) - I just can't believe the Murdoch empire is preparing to fall from the wall like Humty Dumpty. The analogy is priceless, once that monster called News Corp is toppled, there will be no way to put it back together.

TV networks and national newspapers and magazines lead American belief systems and values toward a cliff. No party is guilty for lying more, than FOX News.

CREW Calls for FCC to Revoke Murdoch`s Broadcast Licenses

“News Corp. has a pattern of outrageous and illegal conduct, including bribery, wire fraud, computer, and phone hacking,” - CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan

(WASHINGTON DC) - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking the FCC to revoke the 27 Fox broadcast licenses News Corp. holds in the United States.

Under U.S. law, broadcast frequencies may be used only by people of good “character,” who will serve “the public interest,” and speak with “candor.”

Culture, Media and Sport Committee publishes Phone-hacking Report

The Murdoch's are in the gun sights of English Parliament.

(LONDON) - The Culture Media and Sport Committee today publishes its Eleventh Report of Session 2010-12, News International and Phone-hacking (HC 903-I).

Links below will lead you to the report on News International and Phone-hacking, the Inquiry: Phone-hacking, and additional information from the Culture, Media and Sports Committee.

Please Vote: Bafta TV Awards 2012 Nominees

Please vote: Bafta TV Awards 2012 nominees - Films about Bahrain, Sri Lanka, adoption and care homes are all up for the award - vote for the one you think should win

(LONDON) - Al Jazeera's Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark has earned the channel a nomination for Current Affairs in this year's Bafta TV Awards.

It's competing against Jon Snow's film, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, for Channel 4 and two editions of Panorama on BBC1: The Truth about Adoption and Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed.

Sri Lankan Mosque Forced to Abandon Prayers by Protesters

Last September a monk led a crowd to demolish a Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura, not far from Dambulla.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka BBC) - A mosque in Sri Lanka has been forced to abandon Friday prayers amid community tensions in the central town of Dambulla.

About 2,000 Buddhists, including monks, marched to the mosque and held a demonstration demanding its demolition.

William Gomes Named `Human Rights Ambassador` for Salem-News.com

What sets William apart, is that he covers the world as a whole, rather than concentrating on one specific region or country.

(SALEM / DHAKA) - We are pleased to announce the appointment of our writer William Gomes, to the position of Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador.

In this rapidly changing world, we believe this newly-created position and program, are large steps in raising our effectiveness as a news agency.

Suzy is no Sophie: How Faking Ordeals Harms Abused Women

Book review of "Trafficked", written by Sophie Hayes, published by HarperCollins (2012)

(LONDON) - Even if one is familiar with stories of human trafficking, one never ceases to be shocked when hearing the details of new ones.

And shocked you will be when you read 'Trafficked', an autobiographical account by Sophie Hayes, a young British salesgirl who was forced into prostitution after she accompanied her boyfriend, Kas, to Italy.

Review of Sarah Gillespie`s New Music Release `The War on Trevor`

The new release also bears her trademark captivating style of music, produced by Gilad Atzmon, whose playing of the accordion, clarinet and saxophone can be pleasingly traced throughout her work.

(LONDON) - Politics and human rights have always been among the dominant themes in Sarah Gillespie's albums.

Her latest release 'The War on Trevor' - a fifteen minute music narrative divided into four sections – indulges her passion for these topics further, as the whole piece was exclusively dedicated to them.

Britain`s Mad-House Foreign Policy

It seems to me the consequences of sanctions were entirely predictable.

(LONDON) - My local MP, Henry Bellingham, is a Foreign Office minister whose responsibilities include the United Nations, the International Criminal Court and conflict resolution.

I take this to mean he's tasked with keeping the British Government on the straight-and-narrow as regards international law, with ensuring dutiful conformity with the UN's Charter and numerous resolutions, with saving our warmongering hotheads from the calaboose in The Hague, and with treading the path of peace at all times.

First All-Europe Racist/Fascist Gathering Overshadowed in Denmark

“EDL summit in Denmark humiliated by low attendance” - The Guardian

(COPENHAGEN) - On March 31, some 5000 Danes and a couple hundred like-minded anti-racists from other Scandinavian countries and England marched in Aarhus, to stop the spread of racist/fascist groupings popping up around Europe. Some have ties in the United States.

Their march was a counter-demonstration to the first all-Europe rally against Muslims.