Although there has been a long tradition of philanthropy in the newspaper industry , it was often intended to buy a media baron undue influence over the public .
尽管报刊业一直以来就有接受慈善资助的传统,但往往随之来的是媒体巨头向公众施加了不公平的压力。
That sort of extrapolation would have produced a harrumph from a beaverbrook or a hearst , but even the most cynical news baron could not dismiss the way that ever more young people are getting their news online .
The media baron 's latest attempt to atone for the crisis spawned by the news of the world fell on deaf ears as opposition labour leader ed miliband called for new ownership laws to dismantle his british media interests .