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GEORGE LEKATSAS Like Michael Moore’s hyped Fahren- Greenwald’s fi lm uses docu- mentary as an effective and popular form to rouse public debate. The commercial success of is an illustration of the creative impli- Rather than premiere with a theatrical release, was released in the It was Amazon’s top selling video for one of 3,000 ‘house parties’ organized by the fi lm’s fi nancers, the Center for American Progress (MoveOn.org). Outfoxed claims that Murdoch’s vari- ous media interests allow him to reach approximately 4.7 billion people, about Murdoch in practice controls nine satel- lite networks, 100 cable channels, 175 newspapers, forty broadcast channels and a movie studio. He has a variety of interests in book publishing. Media moguls endeavouring to shape public opinion, policy and events are not a recent phenomenon. But no media mogul has ever had the reach of Rupert Murdoch. illustrates why the public needs to be concerned about the concentration of so much media power in just two hands. 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