Re:Income inequality today may be higher today than in any o...
by noir_lord on Saturday July 02, 2016 @02:16PM
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You want to see true power from wealth we have a perfect example here in the UK, Rupert Murdoch.
He infiltrates every level of our life, so much so that when the wife of one of the PM candidates accidentally leaked an email she wrote to his team Murdoch was named specifically.
He isn't even that rich compared to the absolute richest but he owns a huge chunk of the media market here (Newspapers and Sky TV/Sky News) which allows him to set the agenda almost completely.
Between him and Dacre (editor of the Daily Mail - a truly terrible newspaper) they have effective control of the news media and it's agenda in this country and it's terrifying.
His company hacked the voice mail of a dead girl and he walked away from it essentially scott free.
He infiltrates every level of our life, so much so that when the wife of one of the PM candidates accidentally leaked an email she wrote to his team Murdoch was named specifically.
He isn't even that rich compared to the absolute richest but he owns a huge chunk of the media market here (Newspapers and Sky TV/Sky News) which allows him to set the agenda almost completely.
Between him and Dacre (editor of the Daily Mail - a truly terrible newspaper) they have effective control of the news media and it's agenda in this country and it's terrifying.
His company hacked the voice mail of a dead girl and he walked away from it essentially scott free.