Fallout for Murdoch in the U.S.: link to urbanism

The only reason that this is relevant to urbanism is how the right in America is strongly associated with various Fox enterprises and how pro-urban, pro-transportation issues are not part of the Republican agenda, given proposals to significant cut support for sustainable transportation as part of federal funding for transportation, and new proposals to eliminate the EPA Office of Smart Growth, among others.

But calls to investigate News International and opining that the phone hacking scandals involve activities that violate the US's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act would mean that the Corporation could be deemed to have violated the law.

This would put all their owned and operated Fox Television stations--there are 17 in total--at risk for license challenges, just like how the old RKO television and radio station group broke up due to license challenges after parent company General Tire was convicted of criminal activity, in addition to other anti-competitive actions and misdeeds by RKO.

Fox's ability to broadcast programming as a network and on cable wouldn't be at risk because the way the licensing process works for radio and television stations is different.