In Britain, News Corporation has been creating a sort of state unto itself by corrupting the police, assuming police powers of surveillance, and intimidating politicians into looking the other way. In the US, it has behaved similarly, using corporate media power to breathe life into a stand-alone political organization, the Tea Party.
在英国，新闻集团通过贿赂警察，承担警察的监控权力，以及恐吓政客不要多管闲事，俨然成为了一个国中之国。该集团在美国也类似有类似的作为，就是利用其自身企业媒体力量来向一个长期孤立的政治组织——茶党——打强心针。