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Regulation - Rules and restrictions one convention of political cartoons is that they use charicatures The  News International phone-hacking scandal  is a controversy involving the now defunct  News of the World  and other British newspapers published by  News International , a subsidiary of  News Corporation . Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in  phone hacking , police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the  British Royal Family , in July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl  Milly Dowler , relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the  7 July 2005 London bombings  had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner  Rupert Murdoch  led to several high-profile resignations, including th

Curran and Seaton - 'diversity is a public interest - but modern societies suffer from collective attention deficit disorders... the public interest has to work harder to be noticed, and we need agile but resourceful media to do that.' Key Term - Monopoly - The exclusive ownership or control of something. - Stagecoach Conglomerate - A business that is interested in multiple industries. (All about money) Subsidiary - A smaller company that is owned by a large corporation. A benefit of conglomeration is that when a company is bought, the audience goes with it. Monopoly's 'extend the range of business and political connections to increase the companies prestige. Contributes to the maintenance of public opinion in favour of private enterprise' - Curran and Seaton. One issue with conglomerates is that it stops independent companies. Rupert Murdoch - Upper Class Elderly Australian Right Wing Man Allows NewsCorp to positively review their own films. Al