keep to whatever other promises he s made. so within short order, it s all rupert s show. he eventually, then bought up the sun, followed by other newspapers, winding up with 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. for murdoch, the mission is just to build audience. the mission is not, you know, really journalistic. rupert discovered very quickly what i would describe as the dial. if you start turning the dial down market, the circulation or the ratings go up. he understands what sells sex and murder and blood and mayhem. immediately, the london media types see murdoch as this
keith murdoch went on to set up over time a chain of newspapers. before long, keith murdoch became a very powerful media player in the australian scene, and was considered to have put even a prime minister in place. rupert grew up in melbourne, in a house called heathfield. this is a life of enormous privilege. his mother and father give wonderful parties. there s always prime ministers or mayors coming to dinner. you can imagine rupert peeking through the banisters and seeing this stuff. you know, he is right at the center of power. and like many boys whose fathers are powerful, rupert desperately sought his father s respect and approval, but really
and in part of the footage is murdoch s car. rupert murdoch on his way to his office by rolls royce. so they cooked up a plan to kidnap anna murdoch. one day, they follow this rolls royce back to her house in wimbledon, but it s not rupert murdoch s. it s alick mckay s, rupert murdoch s deputy. rupert and anna had loaned the rolls royce to alec and his wife, muriel. muriel is followed, and they kidnap her thinking that she is anna murdoch. i m terribly worried. i am frantic that i can get my wife back again. what can i do? their ransom demands for a million pounds. if my father had been a millionaire or something, i might have not been so surprised, but i m absolutely stunned. i can t, you know the disappearance of mrs.
children. another is that to actually designate an heir would be effectively an admission of his own mortality. and so, as rupert s life literally hangs in the balance, this is going to be the true opening bell of the war for succession. and everyone knows it s going to be a really ugly, tense fight. rupert murdoch, the media mogul is said to have been hospitalized. he has injuries to his back and his head. he had to be airlifted. after the accident, you know, sure enough, rupert recovers. and while lying in his hospital bed, having narrowly escaped death here, sends a memo out to the company saying that he s just had a sailing accident. his bathroom fall is made to sound like, yeah, he got knocked
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