NIELSEN CLAIMS ANTI-PEOPLE METER GROUP IS FRONT FOR NEWS CORP

[rumpel]

I finally got to read some of my e-mail newsletter from Monday. Sorry if this info is already out.

From Showbizdata 4/25
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Ratings giant Nielsen Media Research charged over the weekend that the group called Don't Count Us Out, which claimed that Nielsen's local People Meters failed to give fair representation to minorities, is in fact a front for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. In a statement, Nielsen said that Don't Count Us Out was created by a political lobbying firm, The Glover Park Group, "to advance the corporate interests of News Corp. and its TV stations, which experienced lower ratings after Nielsen replaced paper diaries with more accurate electronic Local People Meters in major television markets." Nielsen also claimed that Glover Park Group had admitted "directing a campaign to disrupt Nielsen's operations in which calls and e-mails were targeted at Nielsen executives, shutting down their corporate switchboard." The "admissions," Nielsen said, were set down in! a posting on Glover Park Group's website, which said that News Corp had turned to it "to devise a campaign to fight back" against the local People Meters. It did so, the statement said, by enlisting minority activists in "a grassroots campaign, including public protests and rallies" forcing Nielsen "to delay the roll-out of the new system." In a statement DCUO said that it had not tried to hide the fact that it had received financial help from News Corp. "Nielsen should spend more time fixing its broken ratings system and less time slinging mud at community activists," it said.

[AuntiBush]

1. Why does this not surprise me!?!

All in the name of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ & Jez-e-us-Ca-Rist!

Poor Jesus... they forgot to never use is name in vain.

:patriot:

[ClintonTyree]

2. Every aspect...

these lying, cheating, criminal bastards want to control everything. What we watch, what we think, how we vote, what we hear, what we believe in, who we like, who we hate...every aspect of our lives. They will not be happy until they control every aspect of politics, our public and private lives.

I'm beginning to think that there is no way to stop them. Other than moving out of the country, there is no way to combat them. America is fucked. The country I grew up in no longer exists. Corporations and demented religious crazies control our country. We are so fucked.

[electropop]

4. Hang on there

Just as it seems like our darkest hour, cracks are appearing in the Repuke machinery. We won on the Ethics Committee rules, and we are winning on Social Security Corporatization and Tom Delay. Both are clearly going down. We are also well ahead in the polls on Iraq, the economy, and Bushitler's overall approval rating (47% and falling). The public opposes virtually every Repuke policy, and it will not be possible for them to sustain the power grab forever in the face of such intense, broad, and growing opposition. Screw Murdoch. America is beginning to ignore the MSM and see the truth for themselves.

:nuke:

[RobertSeattle]

3. I'm no tinfoil hatter, but Faux News ratings always sound bogus

I have a hard time believing they so consistently beat CNN and MSNBC.

[Skarbrowe]

5. After 50 years of watching TV, I'm having my first Neilson diary being sen

aah, sent in the mail next week. Obviously not a meter.

[bullimiami]

6. how can it be legal. for one company to set up a front to target

another with the specific intent to damage its credibility and operation.

I would think a HUGE lawsuit would be a real possibility.