世界上最大的媒体帝国鲁伯特·默多克的新闻集团,在不久将会一分为二。该公司的娱乐部门,其中包括好莱坞电影工作室,将在美国金融市场关闭后将从出版业务部门分割出来。我们的商业记者马克·格雷戈里将为您详细报道。
Rupert Murdoch spent his career building a global media group that last year had revenues of $34bn. Now at the age of 82 he is breaking it up. The stated logic is financial, but there is also an unstated logic behind this split-- the division lessens the risk that the highly profitable movie-making and television arm of the business will be contaminated by the fallout of a phone hacking scandal that's engulfed Mr Murdoch's British newspapers.
鲁珀特·默多克度穷尽毕生精力建立了一个全球性的传媒集团,去年该集团获得340亿美元的收入。而现在,82岁的他将拆分自己的集团。默多克所谓的理由是金融原因,但这次的分裂背后还有其他未明示的原因 - 高利润电影制作和电视业务容易受到电话窃听丑闻的影响。而这一次的拆分将降低这种风险。窃听丑闻曾席卷先生默多克旗下的英国报纸,令其深陷其中。
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