who was going to succeed rupert murdoch? lachlan, elizabeth, and james all have their own places in the murdoch empire. lachlan is the one who is closest to the seat of power. but he finds himself in the middle of this shark tank. he chastises roger ailes. rupert completely sides with ailes. elizabeth, as a programmer, has something close to rupert murdoch s own eye for the new and the fresh, but she s never going to get the top job with her father. she decides she has to get out. she sends him a fax. they re supposed to have an heir and a spare. james is the spare. but james proves himself to be as good as his father at putting profit before principle. and it s very successful . james murdoch is now at the top of the company, is almost certain to succeed his father, and he s doing tremendously. he goes from a junior member of the family to a successful executive at newscorp, to the ceo of sky, to now being in charge of news international, their global division.
who was going to succeed rupert murdoch? lachlan, elizabeth, and james all have their own places in the murdoch empire. lachlan is the one who is closest to the seat of power. but he finds himself in the middle of this shark tank. he chastises roger ailes. rupert completely sides with ailes. elizabeth, as a programmer, has something close to rupert murdoch s own eye for the new and the fresh, but she s never going to get the top job with her father. she decides she has to get out. she sends him a fax. they re supposed to have an heir and a spare. james is the spare. but james proves himself to be as good as his father at putting profit before principle. and it s very successful. james murdoch is now at the top of the company, is almost certain to succeed his father, and he s doing tremendously. he goes from a junior member of the family to a successful executive at newscorp, to the ceo of sky, to now being in charge of news international, their global division.
all have their own places in the murdoch empire. lachlan is the one who is closest to the seat of power. but he finds himself in the middle of this shark tank. he chastises roger ailes. rupert completely sides with ailes. elizabeth, as a programmer, has something close to rupert murdoch s own eye for the new and the fresh, but she s never going to get the top job with her father. she decides she has to get out. she sends him a fax. they re supposed to have an heir and a spare. james is the spare. but james proves himself to be as good as his father at putting profit before principle. and it s very successful . james murdoch is now at the top of the company, is almost certain to succeed his father, and he s doing tremendously. he goes from a junior member of the family to a successful executive at newscorp, to the ceo of sky, to now being in charge of news international, their global division. lachlan has at that point, gone off to australia, or he s doing his own
and i would like to welcome back this morning to the committee, james murdoch. james is called back before parliament, and he s asked again about the for neville e-mail. were you made aware of the existence of an email that contained the transcript of voice intercepts which in tom s word was fatal to your case? yes, and i think this is an important point, just to be very, very clear on if i may. this time james reverses himself, he says that he actually was aware of the email, but his executives never described to him the significance, that no-one had ever actually told him explicitly what had happened and what a big deal it was. it s dual importance, if you will, that it was the for neville email that it also was perhaps the beginning of suspicion that other individuals were involved at the news of the
taylor ended up believing his phone had been hacked and sued news of the world. the case was worth 100 million pounds, an extraordinary amount of money. one would assume the only way murdoch would pay this amount of money is if they wanted to keep something secret. in fact, there was something that the news of the world wanted to make sure never saw the light of day. highly damning document that includes a transcript from a hacked conversation for a reporter named neville thorobeck. this showed clyde goodman was not the only reporter in news of the world who relied upon the black magic of glenn mulkair. june 7, 2008, james murdoch is home in london with his children when he receives a panicky email from one of his executives and in this email the executive indicates that this is the nightmare scenario,