monday 20th ndm 2

The Rupert Murdoch era is all but over'

When looking back at 2013 and forward to 2014 it is tempting to focus on all the "new" things that have happened or are about to happen. The Twitters, Facebooks, Buzzfeeds, Vices, Snapchats and so on, whose influence is no doubt being overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term, as is traditional with transformative technology. But look at the media we have – as opposed to the media we might have – and something very big has happened. And although "new" media have played a part, it is in the heartland of Britain's oldest medium – the press – that this epoch-shifting change has occurred. The Murdoch era is all but over

I believe that Rupert Murdoch has so much influence over the media that there is no possible way he could lose this power any time soon, he has so many newspapers and power over new and digital technology.