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Fox Studios in Los Angeles, where the News Corporation annual meeting was held. Photo: Reuters

It was a sunny Los Angeles autumn day a week ago when six people boarded a special-purpose bus from the city's Century Park West carpark to Fox Studios. The six people, all shareholders, were off to attend what would be a momentous annual meeting of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

None had a clue that they were about to witness the 83-year-old media baron come dangerously close to losing his iron-fisted grip on a large part of his empire at the hands of a shareholder revolt.

News Corp's financially challenged newspaper assets form the basis of the (new) News Corp. Photo: Phil Carrick

No one expected that the billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, on whose support Murdoch relies to retain control of News Corp, wouldn't vote his shares.

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For Murdoch, in a corporate sense at least, the outcome of this meeting represented a near-death experience.

Thus Rupert Murdoch has been put on notice that his family's control of News Corporation the company that owns his international stable of newspapers, Australian pay television, book publishing and digital directory assetsis vulnerable.

The Sun king's dictatorship is being threatened by several of the company's large shareholders, who have been behind this push to force democracy on the company.

This is not the first time Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp, has been challenged by shareholder detractors. But it is the closest shave so far. A massive 47.4 per cent of votes cast supported a proposal to eliminate the company's dual-class share structure which, had it passed, would have diluted his voting interest from almost 40 per cent to a mere 14 per cent.

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A new media mogul has emerged in Venezuela: the state.

Despite an economic crisis that is bringing public finances to its knees, the self-proclaimed Bolivarian Revolution controls 14 television channels, a global satellite network (TeleSur), four newspapers soon to be five and dozens of radio stations.

The mission of this media empire is to promote the governments actions, support socialist values and drive forward the revolution, as worded in the executives recent 2015 budget proposal.

In order to finance just part of this conglomerate, the Nicols Maduro administration is planning to invest 3.6 billion bolivars next year equivalent to slightly over $508 million according to the official exchange rate, but only 64.7 million under Venezuelas controversial exchange system.

The government is simultaneously planning to use its parliamentary majority to pass a law that will allow it to directly fund over 500 community stations sympathetic to former president Hugo Chvez, bypassing local authorities.

The late Chvez always considered the media a key battleground in his quest to establish a Bolivarian regime based on his own interpretation of socialism, populism and Latin American regionalism. Now his successor, Nicols Maduro, is following in his footsteps.

The figures on state control of the media were drawn up by Marcelino Bisbal, director of postgraduate media studies at the Andrs Bello Catholic University (UCAB) in Caracas, a Jesuit-run learning center.

We took all the items earmarked for communication in the budget law, and the largest share corresponded to the Information and Communication Ministry, said the scholar.

Even though this renewed investment effort maintains no relation to the low audience ratings of the state-owned media, Bisbal said the logic behind it was the states desire to fill all areas of public life. And while it is true, as state spokesmen say, that there are still many more private outlets than public ones, they are intimidated and self-censoring, and dominated by the official truth.

The 3.6 billion bolivars slated for investment in the media surpasses the money allocated to the judicial and electoral branches of government, two of the five powers granted to the state under the 1999 Constitution. That is despite the fact that 2015 is an election year, a fact that normally requires additional funding for the National Electoral Council.

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BOSTON (CBS) Every day we are bombarded with images in magazines, on TV, and online. And those images can shape a young girls self-esteem before she even understands what shes looking at.

Everybodys always really skinny.

Most of the girls are white.

It makes me feel unattractive, like a I can never look like that.

Everybody looks perfect and it kind of lowered my self-esteem.

Thats just a sampling of sixth grade girls describing how those glossy, photoshopped pictures can make them feel.

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