Rupert Murdoch Empire is one of unbelievable big and has a sphere
of influence that extends
to around three quarters of the world. One of his
most renowned companies of is Fox and the news show. The sheer size and influence of Murdoch’s
News Corp and Fox News mean that his empire is possible the biggest in history
even bigger than the British Empire of the 19th centuries. Today Murdoch
owns 9 satellite TV networks, 100 cable channels, 175 newspapers, 40 books
imprints, 40 TV stations and a movie studio (0:01:53) with a total audience reach
of 4.7 billion people, that ¾ of the entire world population, Europe in the 19th
centuries may have claimed more territorial land but the influence of Europe
would have been marginal compared to the total audience that Murdoch can influence.
The
fox news is possibly one of the most bias news in the US despite the slogan ‘Fair
& Balance’ and ‘We report. You decide. The no political side approach that
Fox started with before Murdoch brought it change quickly three years after,
when Murdoch order the news to stop in order to pay tribute to Ronal Ragan( 00:04:13)which
was straight out propaganda and had nothing with the new. The abilities of
empires to influence the general population has been well documented throughout
histories, the British Empire for example colonizing India, not only did English
people move to India, the native population was force to learn the English culture
and language. The same thing is happening today with the Media Empires such as
News Corps and Fox News. This ability to influence the general population is
clear with memos on particular issues such as the 2004 election when ‘ Nominees
who both sides admit are qualified are being held up because of their POSSible,
not demonstrated, views on one issue- abortions. This should be a trademark
issue for FNC (Fox News Corporation).’ This ability to influence what is seen
and not seen plays a very importance part in the world of politics and the
general people do not even realize it. Because of how big New Corps is it able
to influence multiple nations in essence making it an equivalence of a European
Union or regional governance. This fit perfectly in today’s world as globalization
is seen as regionalization so areas of cooperation of government rather nation
states by themselves, with many multination alliance such as NATO. (Pieterse,
2004 p10)
picure by zoharma. shows how big some corperations truely are, news corp and fox in lower right side
Nederveen Pieterse,
J 2004, ‘Globalization: consensus and controversies’, Globalization and
culture: global mélange, Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham, Md
Outfoxed: Rupert
Murdoch's War on Journalism .
I certainly agree with you that the Murdochacy has grown to be truly enormous on a global scale.
ReplyDeleteNot only is Murdoch's ownership influence enormous but also his political and cultural influence is too.
I do enjoy occasionally watching humorous Fox News highlights on YouTube but I do often wonder just how many people that would actually believe all that Fox News has to say. It is a bit scary to consider.
I'm sure you would also be aware of the front page of the Daily Telegraph on Monday August 5 which blatantly called for the voting public to remove the Labor Government in Australia.
As a politics student and as somebody who leans a little to the left I have long been aware of Murdoch's power in Australian politics but hopefully this case has put it out into the open so that people will wake up to it.
Certainly, Murdoch's power is an example of globalisation, particularly in media flows and also demonstrates a certain homogenisation of ideas.
Try to use paragraphs in your writing and ensure you check over your spelling and grammar. If you type directly into Blogger it will use American spelling which uses 'z' instead of 's' for words such as 'globalisation'. This is a downfall of the cultural flows which allow the domination of Americanisation.
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