- FOX Business Network
- FOX News
- FOX College Sports
- 20th Century Fox
- Blue Sky Studios
- New York Post
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Sun
- HarperCollins Publishers
- NewsCorp
- IGN Entertainment
- Monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
- Conglomerate: a thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together
- Multi-national: a company operating in several countries
- Media Tycoon: a wealthy, powerful person in media
- Plurality: the fact or state of being plural
- Public Service Broadcaster: TV programmes that are broadcast for the public benefit rather than for purely commercial purposes
The BBC: The BBC is funded by public subscription in the form of a Licence Fee and licence payers paid £2,658 million in fees in the latest audited financial year, making the BBC the most extensive and best funded Public Service Broadcaster in the world.
4)
- People's political views can be strongly swayed by the media
- The cost of the Scottish Parliament building was strongly contested
- Newspapers can often become campaigners against other stuff i.e. the closing of a prison
- The media and politicians need each other but are suspicious of each other
- The public would be clueless without the political of the media
I have learnt that media tycoons, such as Rupert Murdoch, are incredibly powerful people with the power to change people's opinion on politics and pretty much anything else. I think it's fairly clear that people like this should not abuse their power. They are possibly in too powerful a position because if they wanted to, these people could turn the public against groups of people based on their religious beliefs and/or political views that don't deserve it.
