Democracy Now! May 1, 2012

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As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, we discuss the movement with: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal Magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of "Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina" and a member of Occupy's legal working group; and Teresa Gutierrez, of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. Plus headlines, and more.

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Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-large... Explore this topic

Leveson Inquiry

The Leveson Inquiry is a judicial public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal, chaired by Lord Justice Leveson, who was appointed in July 2011. A series of public hearings were held throughou... Explore this topic

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is a diversified multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. It is the world's second-largest media group as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009. News Corporation is a pu... Explore this topic

News of the World phone hacking affair

The News International phone-hacking scandal — dubbed "Hackgate", "Rupertgate", or "Murdochgate" by the press — is an ongoing controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation.... Explore this topic

Tom Watson

Thomas Anthony Watson is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East since 2001. Watson was a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2009. In 2011, Ed Miliband appointed Watson as the first ever Deputy Ch... Explore this topic

UK Parliament

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories. It is located in Westminster, London. Parli... Explore this topic

James Murdoch

James Rupert Jacob Murdoch is the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation. He is the former chairman and chief executive of News Corp., Europe and Asia, where he oversaw assets such as News International, publisher o... Explore this topic

Willful blindness

Willful blindness is a term used in law to when an individual seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally putting himself in a position where he will be unaware of facts that would render him liable. For example, in a number of cases, persons... Explore this topic

News International

NI Group Limited is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation. It is the current publisher of The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers and its former publications include the Today, News of the World and The London Paper newspap... Explore this topic

News of the World

The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations. Originally estab... Explore this topic

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