last of moguls

IT HARDLY seemed possible that the man had held sway over politics and media for so long

默多克能够左右政治执掌媒体达如此长的时间似乎不可能但却是事实

Appearing before a parliamentary committee on July 19th to explain how phone-hacking had flourished in his British newspapers.why his company is alleged to have paid £100,000 ($160,000) in bribes to policemen; why two people in his pay have been jailed and several arrested; Rupert Murdoch paused alarmingly and fumbled his answers.

鲁伯特.默多克在议会听证委员会前就为何新闻集团旗下多家媒体卷入电话窃听丑闻，并被指公司贿赂警察10万欧元(折合美元16万)，以及为什么他麾下两人被拘留，多人被逮捕作出解释。在被质询时，默多克时而惊恐的语塞，显得笨嘴拙舌

Appearing指的是默多克 出席

 The internet is undermining the dominance  of mass media and handing power to start-ups,启动 bloggers and companies like Google and Yahoo! for whom news is a peripheral business, not a consuming passion.

互联网也正在削弱大众传媒的主导作用，把影响公众的力量转向新兴企业，博客和像谷歌，雅虎这样的企业。对谷歌，雅虎这样的媒介来说新闻业不过是副业，而非主要市场。

day-to-day management

日常管理

Silvio Berlusconi is ailing politically

政治处境堪忧

Newspapers have weakened him. 

新闻业埋没了他

with a few notable exceptions

一些有名的特例‘

When it is not distracted by the pursuit of exciting deals, the firm has fought shrewdly to prevent newspaper articles, television programmes and films from turning into digital flotsam.

当公司不再因为追求刺激的交易而分心时，才能精明的使报业，电视节目，电影，不再成为数字垃圾。