The great media scandal

 The Worlds second largest media corporation CEO ,media mogul Rupert Murdoch  is in deep trouble over the phone hacking scandal by its British tabloid News of The World(NoW) . The empire was besetted by allegations last year which  made the sixty year old tabloid to shut down its business.Abusing the power of media and an alternative and corrupt UK government  ,getting to the zenith and falling badly was not less than a drama.Look at the empire of the news corporation and the revenues it gets from different parts of world.
Here is a  excerpts from one article.

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