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The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

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348 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHVivendi Universal Publishing with its acquisition in 1998 (nowknown as Editis, it owns sixty publishing houses selling 80 millionbooks and 40 million CD-ROMS yearly).◆ News Corporation, a creation <strong>of</strong> Australian news magnate RupertMurdoch, originally was incorporated in Australia, but inlate 2004, it was reincorporated in <strong>the</strong> United States under <strong>the</strong>laws <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State <strong>of</strong> Delaware. News Corporation owns Fox TV,Fox News, and seven o<strong>the</strong>r U.S. news networks; Sky TV in <strong>the</strong>U.K.; Foxtel in Australia; Star TV, which reaches some 300 millionAsian viewers; more than a third ownership in HughesNet,<strong>the</strong> largest American satellite TV system; 20th Century Foxmovie studio; 20th Century Fox Television; Fox Searchlight Pictures;Internet properties including MySpace, Photobucket, Flektor,Grab.com, and IGN Entertainment; thirty-four magazines,including TV Guide; HarperCollins Publishers and seven o<strong>the</strong>rpublishers; a global network <strong>of</strong> newspapers, including <strong>the</strong> NewYork Post, <strong>the</strong> Times in <strong>the</strong> United Kingdom, and <strong>the</strong> Daily Telegraphand <strong>the</strong> Australian in Australia; as well as several sportsteams, including <strong>the</strong> Los Angeles Dodgers. With his media conglomeratereaching tens <strong>of</strong> millions each day, Murdoch remarkedin an older News Corporation annual report, “Our reach is unmatchedaround <strong>the</strong> world. We’re reaching people from <strong>the</strong> moment<strong>the</strong>y wake up until <strong>the</strong>y fall asleep.”◆ Bertelsmann AG, <strong>the</strong> world’s largest publisher in <strong>the</strong> En glishlanguage, is a multinational media corporation based in Gutersloh,Germany, which employs more than 88,000 employees insixty-three countries. Bertelsmann controls BMG Music Publishing,<strong>the</strong> world’s third largest music publisher; in 2002, it bought<strong>the</strong> Internet music-sharing firm Napster; fourteen music labels,including Arista Records, BMG, RCA Records, RCA VictorGroup, and Windham Hill; ten television networks; seven radiostations; five production houses, five newspapers; twenty- onemagazines, including Family Circle, Parents, Geo, and Stern. Ber-

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