Government Intervention
Feb 27 2007, Balendu

The UK government has launched an unprecedented inquiry into whether the influence of Rupert Murdoch’s pay-TV empire in Britain is against the public interest. The decision, the first of its kind under legislation passed in 2002, was hailed as...

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