The Big Question: Is there no limit to the expansion of Rupert Murdoch's media empire?

Why do people fear this concentration of power? One need only look at Mr Murdoch's papers in the UK to see the influence they have on the political process, and how the news that readers are fed can be skewed to his own political and business desires. Thanks to a freedom of information request by The Independent, we learnt last year how Mr Murdoch had a hotline to Tony Blair at crucial moments during his premiership, and that the pair spoke three times in nine days in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. On two occasions, the day after a call with Blair, The Sun launched vitriolic attacks on the anti-war French President, Jacques Chirac. In the US, his right-wing New York Post called the anti-war leaders "The Axis of Weasel". In fact, the Post has been Mr Murdoch's unapologetic bloodhound in the US for decades, waging feuds with politicians such as Teddy Kennedy ("Fat Boy", the Post calls him) who have opposed liberalized media laws, and with Mr Murdoch's business rivals. New York's elite fears nothing more than a savaging in the paper's delightfully vicious gossip column Page Six, and the Democrats are fearful of what it would do to Barack Obama if Mr Murdoch decides the Senator is too inexperienced and too liberal to be president. Merging Newsday with the Post immediately turns it profitable, giving it immense new firepower.
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