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How Fox Ate National Geographic

Posted November 17, 2015
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"Over the last few years the National Geographic Society has been slowly vanishing into the Murdoch family’s Fox media empire like a gazelle being swallowed by a python in one of the former’s famous videos. This month the consummation will be complete and Fox will take full control of NatGeo’s major assets – its stake in the TV network, its flagship magazine, its TV studio – in a $725m deal."

Read the full article from The Guardian here: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/14/how-fox-ate-national-geographic

 


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