his son lachlan s, amazing yacht, the sarissa. named after a macedonian weapon of war. it s this exquisite sailing vessel. it s a work of art. as we understand it, they re sleeping on the boat. it s the caribbean. it s peaceful. in the middle of the night, rupert gets up to relieve himself and trips and falls. rupert is lying on the floor of his cabin, and he can t get up and the situation seems serious, he may not survive. a lot is at stake here, his own life as well as his company. he has not yet designated an heir. and the future of his media empire will be up for grabs. stand by. there we go. okay. get ready to roll. tell me a little bit about rupert murdoch. rupert murdoch is the most powerful political force in america. you can put an eagle in a cage and the eagle will not give in. you don t know what they re thinking but you know it s going to end up well for you. that s how i think of him. i m a murdoch admirer. i always have been. murdoch is the
the sarissa. named after a macedonian weapon of war. it s this exquisite sailing vessel. it s a work of art. as we understand it, they re sleeping on the boat. it s the caribbean. it s peaceful. in the middle of the night, rupert gets up to relieve himself and trips and falls. rupert is lying on the floor of his cabin, and he can t get up and the situation seems serious, he may not survive. a lot is at stake here, his own life as well as his company. he has not yet designated an heir. and the future of his media empire will be up for grabs. stand by. there we go. okay. get ready to roll. tell me a little bit about rupert murdoch. rupert murdoch is the most powerful political force in america. you can put an eagle in a cage and the eagle will not give in. you don t know what they re thinking but you know it s going to end up well for you. that s how i think of him. i m a murdoch admirer. i always have been. murdoch is the most ruthless businessman in worl
it s 2018, and rupert murdoch and his wife, jerry hall are vacationing in the caribbean on his son lachlan s, amazing yacht, the sarissa. named after a macedonian weapon of war. it s this exquisite sailing vessel. it s a work of art. as we understand it, they re sleeping on the boat. it s the caribbean. it s peaceful. in the middle of the night, rupert gets up to relieve himself and trips and falls. rupert is lying on the floor of his cabin, and he can t get up and the situation seems serious, he may not survive. a lot is at stake here, his own life as well as his company. he has not yet designated an heir. and the future of his media empire will be up for grabs. stand by. there we go. okay. get ready to roll. tell me a little bit about rupert murdoch. rupert murdoch is the most powerful political force in america. you can put an eagle in a cage and the eagle will not give in. you don t know what they re thinking but you know, it s going to end up well for
could to try and bed down a foundation for rupert. but there was a significant amount of debt to the estate. when sir keith dies, rupert is at the other side of the world. and to get back, the quickest way is to come back to sunderland flying boat. and even that takes three days. and by the time rupert finally gets home, his father s body is in the ground. he misses the funeral. it had to be a devastating moment for young rupert, who d spent his whole life trying to please his father. more to the point, his mother exceeds to the advice or demands of sir keith s fellow directors at the herald and the weekly times and basically sells them half the empire. rupert is outraged. and he said, this happened because i was away.
complete animal who s blown up all their traditions. murdoch sees them as stuffy, calcified, elitist. this is invariably a liberal elite. rupert has always operated from an incredibly privileged perch, but that has not prevented him from feeling a sense of outsiderishness and aggrievement. his sense of alienation speaks to every working class brit who knows they ll never be accepted by these people. so he invents a new language for them. it s articulating the passions of an audience that gets overlooked, and giving them a voice in media. and oh, by the way, he makes a penny or two off of it. when you take the offensive controversy and keep it rolling for six weeks, so much the better. this kind of impulse that rupert has of kind of enjoying tweaking the establishment really reveals itself with the profumo affair.