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Its interesting that the only people that seem to be able to hold corporate media to account are other corporations with different interests.

edit: I suppose the News international phone hacking scandal was journalists/individuals/government holding Murdoch to account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki... ... but that was in the UK.

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To be honest it didn't really achieve a great deal. The Murdoch papers still have a pretty heavy influence over British politics - they stuck with Boris long after he should've been done, it was only when they turned on him it that he was finished, for example.

Oh definitely. It was like a slightly visible victory that didn't actually make much difference to the murdoch empire. I remember seeing murdoch in that select committee having to answer questions. That was something unprecedented(and almost a custard pie that arguably swung things in his favour). But no long term difference

NOTW closed but then I think they started publishing the Sun on Sunday instead?

NI/BSkyB merger was scuppered but now its back on the cards I think?

Didn't Sky get spun out of NewsCorp because of the phone scandel and is under Comcast now?

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