LONDON - Rupert Murdoch's media kingdom faced a serious threat in the UK when a number of people using the internet in their efforts to call for a boycott of the News Corporation.Thousands of protesters in online media, as reported by The Telegraph, Monday, using Facebook and Twitter to encourage others not to buy The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times, or do not even watch Sky.
A group on Facebook called 'Boycott News International', has nearly 8,000 members, made it clear to its members not to buy newspapers or publications tablod company. Added to it that by canceling the subscription Sky, it will send a clear message to Murdoch who has 80 years of age is.
A similar campaign on Twitter has registered domain named boycottmurdoch.com, which aims to create a site that could unite the "the anti-Murdoch in order to take effective action". Front page of the site was declared king of the media company that has been "propagating false images about the world, to exaggerate the news, and spinning an agenda that fit with Murdoch's business interests."
The site also argues, the media organization is to give Murdoch "amount of power astronomically disproportionate, largely unaccountable" and that it "erodes our democracy". The site tells visitors, "Because we do not have the ability to lose him from power, we must do the following best: do not buy anything produced or associated with the mass media of Murdoch's work, and spread the awareness (of this) so that others do the same thing. "
Another campaign in the increasingly popular Twitter shaped the urge to "write to your council members to reject the offer of purchase of BSkyB. We only have a few days!" Murdoch has filed a formal offer to buy Britain's largest pay television, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). Murdoch has lobbied British regulators approved to bid.
Other campaign asks everyone to "say to the Secretary of Culture (UK) Jeremy Hunt Murdoch's how we feel about having so many media! Phone office! Email him directly!" Another call that reads "Boycott The Sun and Sky News ... disgusting that only fired 1,000 workers to divert attention from the Brooks and James Murdoch." James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch, who now serves as chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, while (Rebekah) Brooks is the executive leader of News International. Brooks became editor of the tabloid News of the World, a subsidiary of News Corporation, when the tabloid was doing illegal practice of telephone tapping a number of Britons, including the wife's phone soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and the murder victim's family. Tabloid circulation of 2.6 million copies Sunday was forced to shut down the wiretap-related cases.
The other Twitter users, said that currently Murdoch is British and "it should be fairly easy moment to capture him and question him about what he knows."
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, Nick Clegg, urged Murdoch to cancel the purchase plan BSlyB. And, Hunt announced he was seeking further advice on whether the planned purchase of the king of media is against BSkyB could be brought to the Competition Commission.
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