RUPERT!

Lucas,

Rupert Murdoch.

Just typing the name is unpleasant. And what his Fox "news" regime has done to truth and democracy is astonishingly offensive.

Now there's evidence that the most powerful media mogul on earth has -- in the words of the British Parliamentary committee that recently declared Murdoch unfit to run a major company -- "exhibited willful blindness" while people working for him hacked into private citizens' phones and bribed police officials.

Join Public Citizen and our friends at RootsAction in calling on the U.S. Senate to investigate the corrupt practices of Rupert Murdoch and his company, News Corp.

While this scandal has dominated the news in England, our government has looked away -- not even investigating whether Murdoch's employees may have hacked the phones of U.S. citizens or whether News Corp., an American company, may have violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The Senate Commerce Committee has oversight of American business and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). While British broadcast regulators are investigating whether Murdoch is fit to hold a broadcast license in England, the FCC has shown no interest in Murdoch's fitness to possess 27 licenses to broadcast on American television.

Urge Senate Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) to initiate an investigation of corruption and law-breaking by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp.

For decades, Rupert Murdoch's twisted notions of "fair" and "balanced" have been anything but.

If he has violated the law, he must be held accountable.