Rupert Murdoch

Long standing media giant, Rupert Murdoch owns not only cable television shows but every other resource available. His total holdings exceed 100 media resources. He owns 26 book groups and 29 newspapers spread out in USA, UK and Australia. This may not sound like much, but when getting into details, you realize that Star TV Asia reaches "more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries across Asia (and) STAR is watched by over 173 million people every week." If we continue to state his far reaching influence, we stumble upon the tabloid, The Sun, with an active readership of 4,000,000 people. His interests have not ended with holding such a vast empire. According to various sources he plans to stabilize his name in the UK. Under the heading of; ‘Murdoch and Laborite: Britain’s New Odd Couple’, the New York Times reported on July 21^st 1995 that Rupert Murdoch was Britain’s most powerful non-Briton. They further said that critics charge him with destabilizing the monarchy and snatching elections due to his media outlets being so influential. He owns 37% of Britain’s newspaper market.

Murdoch’s ownership is not as disturbing as the control that he has demonstrated in politics and law making. Murdoch’s agenda is neither right wing nor left wing. His only interest is further expansion and deeper establishment of his control and influence. He manipulates nations for the sake of his own interests. He is granted privileges not granted to any other newspaper in Britain, as reported by the New York Times, which allowed him to buy 5 national newspapers. This is against the Monopolies Commission, but time and again he has been allowed to go around the commission thanks to the privileges granted to him by the candidates he has helped get elected. This includes famous names such as Margret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Michael Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, contacted Murdoch personally in 1991 when he wanted to have his memoirs written. In fact, he was on the list of Gorbachev’s most favorite people at the time of Gorbachev’s coup that led to the fall of the former Soviet Union. Such power in the hands of one man who being foreign based (Rupert Murdoch is an Australian) could establish such a huge power base in USA and UK is phenomenal.