Four years ago, I accompanied another parliamentary committee (this time from the House of Lords) to New York to hear evidence from Murdoch and other proprietors for an inquiry on media ownership.
Julia Gillard has said she is open to the idea of an inquiry into media ethics and ownership, though noticeably she hedged and did not go as far as to announce one.
Those ownership irregularities were investigated in a 2010 tax inquiry that ultimately led to the resignation of an Indian diplomat and the suspension of Lalit Modi, who helped found the league and was its commissioner until his suspension.
His low-cost airline, Virgin America, celebrated its first year of flying in August, but Alaska Airlines recently filed a complaint that its rival is violating U.S. foreign ownership rules on domestic airlines and asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a public inquiry.