TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Total411.info has exposed the media fakery techniques used by NewsCorp to attack and defame Congressman Ron Paul, who is running against Sir Rudy for the GOP Presidential nomination. So this lawsuit comes as no surprise.



From Bloomberg News Nov. 14:

"Publisher Judith Regan, fired last year from News Corp.'s HarperCollins unit, claims her dismissal was part of a ``deliberate smear campaign'' aimed at protecting presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani.

Regan, former president of HarperCollins' ReganBooks division, sued her former employer for defamation in state court in New York, seeking at least $100 million in damages. She claims in her complaint that News Corp. tried to destroy her reputation because she has information about former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik that would be harmful to ex-New York Mayor Giuliani and his presidential campaign.

``The smear campaign was necessary to advance News Corp.'s political agenda, which has long centered on protecting Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions,'' Regan said in the complaint filed yesterday.


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Kerik, who was appointed to the post by then-New York City Mayor Giuliani, was indicted Nov. 9 by a federal grand jury on charges of tax evasion, conspiracy and lying to the White House. He pleaded guilty last year to state charges that he accepted thousands of dollars in gifts while in office.

Kerik turned down a 2004 offer by President George W. Bush to run the Homeland Security Department, a post Giuliani recommended him for, after it was disclosed that Kerik failed to pay taxes for a nanny that worked for him.


Federal prosecutors accuse Kerik of receiving cash and gifts for lobbying regulators on behalf of a New Jersey construction and waste-management firm and lying to investigators -- including those who were vetting him for the cabinet-level post on behalf of Bush -- and tried to conceal his crimes, prosecutors alleged.

Regan claims News Corp. executives attempted to ``preemptively discredit her'' to protect Giuliani and because of the ``damaging information'' they believed she possessed.

``It is now widely accepted that one of Giuliani's major political vulnerabilities is his association with Bernard Kerik,'' Regan said in her suit.

``A senior executive in the News Corp. organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani's presidential campaign,'' according to the complaint. ``This executive advised Regan to lie to, and withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.''
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Labels: foxnews, mockingbird, sir rudy

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Federal Communications Commission licenses for New York and New Jersey television stations expired on June 1. Applications for license renewal by WABC-7 and by WNYW (FOX5) have been "accepted for filing" but, the license renewal has not yet been granted.

Until the renewal application is granted, the FCC will accept "informal complaints" from residents of the New York City market (i.e., anywhere you can receive New York television stations over the air, including Northern New Jersey).

The procedure is simple. Viewers must send the FCC a complaint detailing the station's breach of the public trust. The complaint should be sent in triplicate (three copies) -- the first with an ink signature, the other two copies of the orginal. The headers should include a reference to the application umber as well as the correct FCC address, thusly:

ATTN: Video Division, License Renewal Processing Team
Room 2-A665
Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
c/o Natek, Inc.
236 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Suite 110
Washington, DC 20002

RE: Station call sign: WABC (Channel 7)
City and State: New York, New York
Station facility Identification number: 1328
License renewal application file number: BRCT-20070201BHD

For the separate complaint regarding FOX5, the last four lines of the header should read:

RE: Station call sign: WNYW (Channel 5)
City and State: New York, New York
Station facility Identification number: 22206
License renewal application file number: BRCT-20070201AJS

The complaints should point out that the station in question may be in violation of the FCC hoax rule, Section 73.1217:

This rule prohibits broadcast licensees or permittees from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if: (1) the licensee knows this information is false; (2) it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm; and (3) broadcast of the information does in fact directly cause substantial public harm.

If the broadcast of the CGI airplane animations on 9/11 were intentional and known to the management or owners of the station (Disney-ABC and News Corp-Fox), the stations are in breach of the hoax rule because the panic caused by the broadcasts brought about substantial public harm via the resultant overseas conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the expansion of the domestic police state via the USA PATRIOT A Even if the broadcasts were somehow unintentional, the negligence in failing to disclose the falsity of the broadcast at a later date is a breach of the public interest.

Some suggested points to make in the complaints follow.

Regarding WABC-7:
• ABC News reporter Don Dahler reported no plane hit the south tower even as the video feed showed an airplane image and anchor Charlie Gibson from the studio asserted an airplane hit.
  
• The plane image broadcast on WABC was stop-motion across each frame, indicating a computer generated animation. Actual footage of an actual airplane would have revealed "go-motion" blurry images.
  
• WABC-7 helicopter camera operator John DelGiorno has said the helicopter camera system used was an Ultramedia system, yet a WESCAM logo is clearly visible on the camera rig.
  
• DelGiorno claims the WABC7 helicopter was in motion at the time of the South Tower event, yet the WESCAM shot is relatively stationary.
  
• The blackout in the camera feed immediately after the South Tower event.
  
• The 17-second-separated audio anomalies are present on the WABC feed, synchronized to similar anomalies on other feeds.

Points regarding WNYW (FOX5):
• The "nose-out" through the north face of the building indicates a CGI image, particularly since no exit hole was evident on the north face.
  
• The plane image is missing from the wide shot 11 seconds before the South Tower event.
  
• The suspicious blackout in the helicopter feed following the nose-out indicates an attempt at cover-up.
  
• The purging of the footage form the Internet by WNYW is a clear proof that that WNYW is acting against the public interest in denying access to this footage by researchers and the public. WNYW has purged the footage from YouTube and on the Internet Wayback Machine at www.archive.org, WNYW has replaced the video track of the South Tower event with video from CBS (while retaining the original Fox5 audio track).

In dealing with a regulatory agency like the FCC, remember that several individual (even if similar or duplicative) complaints are more powerful than one complaint co-signed by several people. This is an important opportunity for NYC-area activists to have their voice heard and possibly force a response from Disney-WABC-7 and NewsCorp-FOX5-WNYW.

Labels: 9/11, fcc, foxnews, tvfakery

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Labels: 9/11 commission, foxnews, mockingbird, Ron Paul

Saturday, May 19, 2007

From ccuracy in Media May 16 2007:

"Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized but misleading put-down of Ron Paul during Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate should have been tempered by a report that Saudi Arabia, the country that spawned most of the [alleged] 9/11 hijackers, has been one of Giuliani's lucrative foreign clients. However, Fox News questioners Chris Wallace and Wendell Goler did not bring it up.

Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that the same Associated Press story that named Saudi Arabia as a Giuliani client listed News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, as another Giuliani client. This AP story, which was not disputed by Giuliani or News Corporation, was carried on the Fox News website.

This writer had raised questions about Fox News' co-sponsorship of the debate, based on the fact that the company had a relationship with Giuliani when he was mayor of New York City. But now we know that the relationship has continued into the period of time that Giuliani has been planning a presidential run. It is an obvious conflict of interest.

It was during a discussion of foreign policy that Paul, a Texas congressman, identified U.S. involvement in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, as a factor in the 9/11 attacks. Giuliani pounced on that, saying the claim was worse than absurd. "Rudy's Wrath" was the headline as Fox News proclaimed Giuliani the winner of the exchange. However, the Fox News text-message poll, with 40,000 votes, gave Paul 25 percent over Giuliani's 19 percent. Mitt Romney came in first with 29 percent.

Giuliani was the first Republican candidate to come on Fox News after the debate and talk about his performance. Co-host Sean Hannity wanted to focus on Giuliani's comments on 9/11 and his attack on Paul. Later, Michael Steele, Maryland's former Lieutenant Governor, was on Fox News, declaring that Giuliani had destroyed Ron Paul. "It's done," Steele said of Paul's campaign. It wasn't mentioned that Giuliani had campaigned for Steele when he ran for a Maryland Senate seat.

The exchange with Paul over 9/11 might have been seen in a different light if Hannity had asked Giuliani about why, according to the AP report, his firm represented Saudi Arabia. But that was a taboo topic.

Equally important, it turns out that Paul's point-that the 9/11 attacks were linked to U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle East-was factually correct. Osama bin Laden's 1996 "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places" specifically mentioned the situation in Iraq, blaming the U.S. for the impact of economic sanctions on the Saddam Hussein regime. Bin Laden accused the U.S. of "aggression" against Iraq and the record shows that his anti-Americanism was motivated, at least in part, by the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia.

Yet, Giuliani claimed "I don't think I've heard that before," in reference to Paul's citation of some of these facts. One would think that "America's Mayor" and "Mr. 9/11" would understand the genesis of the attacks that took almost 3,000 American lives.

Despite the facts of the case, Fox News correspondent Steve Brown said it was a matter of "Mission Accomplished" for Giuliani because of his exchange with Paul. Of course, "Mission Accomplished" has become associated with a war in Iraq that has no end in sight. Paul has been against the Iraq War from the beginning. He made the point, as he had during the first debate on MSNBC, that the war had cost the GOP control of Congress. Senator John McCain tried to insist that Republicans had lost Congress because they had been spending too much federal money. He didn't explain why the public had replaced the Republicans with bigger spenders from the Democratic Party.

[...] Fox News seems determined to run Paul and other candidates out of the race.

Steve Doocy of Fox News called Ron Paul the "Sanjaya" of the Republican presidential debate, a reference to the American Idol contestant many believe stayed in the national competition for too long. But this is reality turned upside down. Fox News didn't want its audience to know the facts behind the exchange. Especially with his controversial Saudi and other foreign connections, Giuliani may end up looking like the real "Sanjaya" of the race. [...]

Giuliani was completely spared any tough questions about his controversial dealings with foreign clients. Neither Wallace nor Goler brought up the growing controversy over the Giuliani law firm representing a Spanish company that is privatizing a Texas road in the proposed "NAFTA Superhighway." The same firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, represents Citgo, the oil company owned by Venezuela...

Fox News had attempted to limit participation in the debate to the so-called "serious" candidates before a public outcry forced all of them to be included. That ploy was seen as an effort to cement Giuliani as the frontrunner. After the debate, Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron was again trying to limit the field, declaring that the "second-tier candidates" had slowed down the exchanges. He implied that candidates like Paul, Duncan Hunter and Mike Huckabee should be left out of future debates.

Fox News has a reputation as a conservative news channel and many Republicans rely on it for news and information. But its handling of this debate raises serious questions about the channel's commitment to being "fair and balanced." It seems to be emerging as an arm of the Giuliani-for-president campaign. Honest conservatives should demand better coverage.
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Labels: foxnews, sir rudy, tvfakery