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.
multimillionaire rupert murdoch is at the center of a journalistic empire, and he clearly is in the united states to stay. rupert murdoch is emerging as the biggest newspaper baron the world has ever known. if i didn t know what sensationalism was, i would soon find out. more journalists, more publishers should be in television. nobody was thinking as big as rupert murdoch. the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. murdoch has become sole owner of 20th century fox. rupert has laid out that he wants one of his children to succeed him, but he doesn t say when, who and how. it s going to have to be fought out between them. two minutes till the official start of the race, and there the boats looking like the sydney hobart race in australia, it s a big deal. it s kind of their super bowl. lachlan had done a lot of sailing, and he eagerly signed up for the 98 race. he sailed on board the boat sayonara. they want to get all the crew on s
rupert murdoch is announcing a 24 hour cable news network. fox news channel, flare fair and balanced. it becomes clear that fox news is roger ailes. river said, among the three children, it was very likely that lachlan would be the first month among equals. it is the first moment where james and elizabeth are given a little window into how their father sees this thing, and they could turn their back on this business and essentially waved the white flag, or try and double down and proved themselves to their father. they choose the latter. is october, 2001, and roger ailes is at an annual dinner, attended by all the new york politicians, the aisles with dinner. i trust you will have enjoyed your meal. this is one of the events in new york city politics. roger ailes has been the architect of fox news. one of very few people who rupert really, really trusts, and who rupert really needs. as the evening is winding down, roger hears from juliet s office, the news c
good evening to you lawrence! it evening alex. i have a funny feeling that tomorrow will be very much like today. we ll see how far we debt whether we have a speaker or not. but we want to see a lot of same stuff tomorrow. i think that the official term is groundhog day, congress. while there is that! we will see. kevin mccarthy might, he might be on his way to breaking the hundred year old record of number of votes most since i think like nine is the most that we have for. that he s already broken the record for most humiliated person that is seeking the speakers gavel in modern american political history. yes. so we will see what other records he can shatter and the next couple of hours. thank you alex! have a good show! well at this very moment, kevin mccarthy is negotiating with terrorists, legislative terrorist. that is what former republican house speaker john boehner called destructiveness republicans in the house of representatives when he was spea