News Corporation
News Corporation (News Corp) is a international mass media company owned by Rupert Murdoch and his family. As a whole News Corp has a horizontal structure but inside this mass media machine sparks off certain vertical structures. News Corp runs a combination of different media's such as; publishing, radio, TV, newspapers. Owning massive TV powerhouse's such as FOX news. This means that News Corp in particular Rupert Murdoch has a massive influence on how the political structure is run in America, FOX backs the Republican candidate at every election putting massive amounts of money behind them forcing the most recent Presidential election to cost billions of dollars. Its not only in America News Corp has a grip on Politics in Britain the papers owned by News Corp (The Sun) during elections The Sun and The News Of The World (before it shut down in 2011 following the phone hacking scandal, which the Leveson Inquiry is currently investigation News Corp's involvement in the phone hacking scandal) would always publicly back the Tory, Conservative and Labour Parties pretty much changing each election.
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