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
that there s damning information in the court documents that could really get the company in trouble. they have to shut this down. and ultimately james does decide to settle. to pay 1 million pounds was an enormous amount and it suggested real fear in the murdoch castle. to put it in plain language, that had to be hush money. when i got the first story ready to print which was on the gordon taylor case, i went to see alan resberger, editor of the guardian, and i said okay, i ve done this story that involves taking on the biggest media company in the country. alan s very good in a situation like that. he said, okay. it was obvious from the moment heout lined the story this was going to be huge. it was going to be
executive indicates that this is the nightmare scenario. that there s damning information in the court documents that could really get the company in trouble. they have to shut this down. and ultimately, james does decide to settle. to pay a million pounds was an enormous amount. and it suggested real fear in the murdoch castle. to put it in plain language, that had to be hush money. when i ve got the first story ready to print, which was on the gordon taylor case, i went to see alan rusbridger, the editor of the guardian. and i said to him, okay, i ve done this story that involves taking on the biggest media company in the country. and alan s very good in a situation like that. he said, okay. it was obvious from the moment he outlined the story that this was going to be huge. it was going to be uncomfortable. it was going to be difficult and