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Originally Posted by Damien
Plurality refers to the news media as a whole doesn't it? Which means you need to factor in News International with The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and their respective websites. News Corp would be quite dominant if they control that portion of the media. Single providers are pretty dangerous, after all it wouldn't have been any of those papers or Sky breaking the news about the hacking scandal.
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Plurality does refer to the media as a whole, and if you count up all his various companies, Rupert Murdoch does control a large chunk, ranging from small local newspapers, through The Sun and The Times, to Sky TV and even 20th Century Fox..
While I agree, most people don't base their political beliefs on what they see come out of hollywood, people do base their political beliefs on what they see on the TV news (which is already fairly heavily regulated), on the radio and in the news papers (which aren't regulated at all), so one company controlling a large percentage of all three industries would be in a good position to imposed it's views on a large percentage of the population. And, yes, people are that gullible.
It's worth noting that while the BBC has huge radio and TV audiences, it has little or no influence on the press, beyond a couple of magazines.