The 92-year-old mogul’s move to make eldest son Lachlan his heir is already being compared to the titanic fight for power within the fictional Roy family on smash-hit TV series Succession,
Orderly, understated and out of a clear blue sky. From a comms point of view, Rupert Murdoch’s retirement bombshell was more The Waltons than Succession: a family love-in that truly marked the end of an era. There won’t be another Rupert Murdoch. There won’t be another risk-taking entrepreneur who’ll put their time and money where