In the UK it is arguably worse in that Murdoch also controls the once respected Times newspaper and the nonce respected (pun intended) Sun daily rag with tits on page 3, as well as Sky with its tractor pulling for those who find NASCAR too intellectually challenging.

Both the UK and the USA are headed for the pit of corruption typified by Italy where Berlusconi's lock on the media gets him elected and then he abuses his political power to exempt himself from criminal law.