Rupert Murdoch's Influence In The Media

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The emergence of newspaper publishing started in the 17th century during European Renaissance era and was being widely spread among the societies. Rupert Murdoch inherited News Limited from his father Keith Murdoch, a well-known Australian journalist. Later, Murdoch expanded his operations across the United States and United Kingdom by purchasing other newspaper companies.
The newspapers keep the people aware of the activities of the government and they mobilize public opinion. People tend to believe in this medium more than the others, even though information they received are manipulated by the government authorities or controlled by the press agencies. In the United States, Murdoch uses his influence in the media and
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The Star shifted its emphasis to features about Hollywood personalities and dieting, and columns by psychics and astrologers. Most of Murdoch’s newspapers and magazines fed the public a steady diet of sensationalism, heavily loaded with sex, sports, crime, and lurid stories. Their magazine such as Confidential covers entertainment news, gossip and celebrity events across fashion, music and showbiz from red carpet to runway, keeping the young adults in the loop with the latest in entertainment. While Vogue and Style are about beauty, seasonal trends, the latest social, celebrity and fashion news, and lively, informed takes on pop culture, it caters for the women, aims to entertain and inspire as the global voice in …show more content…
They generate economic value for news stories, gossip items, biographies, or interviews, due to the intense demand for information about the lives and doings of celebrities. The readers, who desire of keeping up with the popular cultures, follow their mannerisms, their styles, their modes of conversation. Therefore, celebrities have become the ‘chief agents’ of moral change in the United States, they are widely used to symbolize individual aspirations, group identities, and cultural values. Often time, this influence many young women to practice the dieting methods of celebrities in order to achieve the ideal body image like a model. It has been instilled in many women’s mind to believe that by transforming their body to proportional size, they will gain more acceptances and become a social status symbol. Unfortunately, it also causes some women to fall into extremity and become anorexic, depressed or loathes their body

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