Journalism’s essential role in a democracy is to enable people to fulfill their roles as citizens by providing information about government, other powerful institutions, civil movements, international events, and so on. But News Corporation replaces such journalism with titillation and gossip, as it did when it took over the 168-year-old News of the World and turned it into a tabloid in 1984, and with partisan campaigns, as it did when it created Fox News in 1996.
所有这一切都与一个记者型组织的行为相差甚远。在一个民主制度里，新闻业的重要角色就是通过提供关于政府，其他权力机构，公民运动，国际事务等信息，使人们能够履行其作为公民的责任。但新闻集团却用调侃和八卦代替了新闻，正如其接管了拥有168年历史的《世界新闻报》并将其转变为一个八卦小报，并在1996年创立福克斯新闻网用于党派斗争中那样。