Black People : Rupert Murdoch Scandal

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Any thoughts on the Rupert Murdoch Scandal?

I've seen and read the news, though it's not too terribly surprising.

Folk being hacked ... violated ... for personal and professional gain ... is not really new.

Am i missing something? Is it more to it than that? Is it bigger?

I guess it could be, since he is at the helm of dissemination of information targeted to the masses.

What do you think? What's really going on?

Thanks in advance.

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We’re joined on Democracy Now! video stream by Leonie Haimson. She is a New York public school parent and executive director of the group Class Size Matters, which has just launched a petition calling on New York state officials to reject a no-bid contract that would give a Murdoch-owned company access to the personal data of schoolchildren. The deal was awarded shortly after the former chancellor of the New York City schools, Joel Klein, joined News Corp.’s board.
Leonie Haimson, tell us then what happened.
LEONIE HAIMSON: Well, actually Joel Klein, when he announced he was resigning from being chancellor of the Department of Education in New York City, immediately announced that he would head Rupert Murdoch’s new online learning division of News Corp., and in January he left to become head of this division. Right after he announced he was resigning, Murdoch bought Wireless Generation, which had contracts with the New York City Department of Education. And when there was a controversy about that, Murdoch’s spokesperson said that he had not consulted with Joel Klein before buying this company, which is very unconvincing, because if you hire someone to head your new online learning division, it’s somehow unrealistic to expect that you didn’t discuss it with the person who’s heading that division.
But in any case, a few weeks ago, it was announced by the New York State Education Department that they plan to give a $27 million no-bid contract to Wireless Generation to produce a statewide data system that would gather all the information, the academic information and personal information, of students throughout the state in order to track their academic progress. And obviously there are a number of concerns that we have with this contract. Number one, with all the allegations about phone hacking, etc., we really have concerns about the privacy of New York state and students, because anyone who has access to that information will have to guard it very closely. And secondly, the whole issue of no-bid contracts is one that we have concerns about, because obviously we want to have taxpayers get their money’s worth. We don’t want to open up the public coffers wide for the Murdoch companies to make money off of our kids.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/nyc_schools_approve_27_million_deal
 

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