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I finally got to read some of my e-mail newsletter from Monday. Sorry if this info is already out.
From Showbizdata 4/25 ? 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.
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