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The Rise and Fall of the Media Industry

Murdoch had to hive off bits of Skye so that he didn't own too high proportion. It was a very big thing when Murdoch bought The Times as well back in 1981. So few people have the money to buy newspapers and want to buy them now. Reach doesn't have a central figure who's over a hundred people can focus on. People are much less worried because they're a conglomerate as it were. And I mean nostalgic now I'm going to miss them so much. But where have all the great Bond villain and the press proprietors gone? This isn't the last of them isn't it? Well it's Musk now isn’t it? They've moved

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