(2011/07/24) The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 1 (Special Event)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 July 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #511
The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 1
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Act 1: Murdoch's Tabloid Hacks into Murder Victim's Phone, Advertisers Flee - Media Matters Air Date: 07-06-11
Song 1: Company calls - Death Cab For Cutie
Act 2: Murdoch News of the World Scandal - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 07-07-11
Song 2: Sun will set - Zoe Keating
Act 3: Murdoch Shuts Down Scandal-Ridden Paper - Media Matters Air Date: 07-07-11
Act 4: Tabloid Accused of Hacking into Phones - Bugle Air Date: 07-09-11
Song 4: Down under - Men at work
Act 5: News of the World Scandal - Young Turks - Air Date 07-11-11
Song 5: Water's edge - Seven Mary Three
Act 6: CREW Calls for Congressional Investigation into News Corp - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 07-12-11
Song 6: Chicago X 12 - Rogue Wave
Act 7: My Murdoch Moment (Part 1) - Countdown Air Date: 07-13-11
Song 7: Crazy - Seal
Act 8: Murdoch on the line from Screaming Majority - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-15-11
Act 9: My Murdoch Moment (Part 2) - Countdown Air Date: 07-13-11
Song 9: Talk - Coldplay
Act 10: Citizen Murdoch Kane - Jimmy Dore - Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 10: Oh my God - Ida Maria
Act 11: News of the World Phone Hacking Reaches Back to 9/11 - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 07-14-11
Final comments on saying no to good ideas in favor of great ones
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Horrible Bosses - Daily Show - Air Date: 07-19-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, where details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at bestivalleft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from Media |
| 0:12.4 | Matters, Citizen Radio, The Bugle, The Young Turks, The Tom Hartman program, Countdown |
| 0:17.0 | with Keith Olberman, The Majority Report, The Jimmy Doar Show, and The Rachel Maddo, |
| 0:21.1 | with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:29.9 | This is the Media Matters Minute, I'm Tori Brown. |
| 0:32.6 | Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid news of the world has gotten itself embroiled in a hacking |
| 0:36.4 | scandal that is starting to scare away major advertisers. |
| 0:39.8 | The Prime Minister of Great Britain, David Cameron, has gotten involved. |
| 0:42.8 | He is calling for an independent inquiry into charges that the paper hacked or tried to |
| 0:47.2 | hack into the cell phones of murder victims and their families. |
| 0:51.1 | NBC's Michelle Kaczynski is in London with this, Michelle, this is just disgusting. |
| 0:57.5 | But what has truly outraged Britain is the allegation that just came out that the news |
| 1:02.9 | of the world may have hacked into the voicemail of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted |
| 1:06.9 | and murdered while she was missing and that hacker deleted some of her voicemails as |
| 1:12.7 | her mailbox filled up, which at the time gave her family all of this false hope that |
| 1:17.3 | she might still be alive. |
| 1:20.0 | Our makers Ford, Foxl, and Mitsubishi Motors, along with Britain's biggest high-street |
| 1:24.0 | lender, have stopped advertising in the paper. |
| 1:50.0 | Robert Murdoch, friend of the show, medium-mogel, owns news of the world, newspaper in the |
| 2:06.0 | UK. |
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