#Prudence Murdoch

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lauren Aratani at The Observer:

An elderly billionaire goes to war with his adult children over the future of his media empire. His only ally is his eldest son, crowned leader of his father’s enterprise after years of jostling with his siblings. In choosing a successor, the patriarch spurns three of his other children, who remain threats: when he dies, they will each have just as much power as the eldest son to shape his companies, potentially against the rightwing ideologies that have guided them for decades.

Away from the public eye, he makes a dramatic move. To deliver control to his eldest son, the mogul quietly launches an extraordinary bid to alter the trust set to hand the other three influence upon his death. But they stand ready to fight. This may sound akin to HBO’s Succession, but it’s life imitating art – which was, in turn, imitating life. Rupert Murdoch, 93, the billionaire owner of News Corp and Fox Corporation who helped inspire the show, is trying to give his eldest son, Lachlan, full control of his media outlets upon his death. While his other adult children – James, Elisabeth and Prudence – will still receive equal shares of company profits, this would leave them with no say over the companies upon his death.

This battle is in fact bigger than anything featured on Succession, according to Robert Thompson, a media scholar based at Syracuse University. “This is arguably the single most influential media outlet in all of the English-speaking world,” he said of News Corp and Fox. “How this turns out has a real, significant impact on real people living on planet Earth.” News Corp owns more than a hundred major and local newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post in the US, as well as the Times and the Sun in the UK. Meanwhile, Fox is the parent of Fox News, the leading conservative cable network in the US, with millions of viewers.

The Murdochs’ legal fight played out in secret for months – until Wednesday, when it burst into the open. The New York Times reported on a decision from a Nevada probate commissioner, which is under seal, that Murdoch can rewrite his family’s irrevocable trust if he can prove the change is being made in good faith and benefits his heirs. The ruling sets the stage for a high-profile trial over the future of his vast array of media interests, with Murdoch and his three children slated to duke it out in court in September.

Both sides, according to the Times, have bulked up on high-profile lawyers. William Barr, the former US attorney general, is helping Murdoch rewrite the trust, and he has also hired Adam Streisand, a trial lawyer who previously worked on estate cases involving Michael Jackson and Britney Spears. The feuding appears to have taken its toll on the family. When Rupert married his fifth wife in California last month, Lachlan was said to have been the only one of his four eldest children in attendance. The other two also reportedly steered clear.

With Lachlan as his father’s successor, Fox News and News Corp will continue to be a conservative force. But under the trust’s current structure, the three other siblings, who are deemed more politically moderate, can push back. Murdoch is seemingly keen to avoid this prospect. Conservatism has been the backbone of his empire since its inception. It has proved to be remarkably profitable.

Though Murdoch had successfully formed relationships with powerful conservative figures in Australia and the UK, it was not until Donald Trump’s ascendancy that he had close ties to the White House. Though Fox was initially dismissive of Trump, the network soon turned into his most powerful megaphone. In turn, Murdoch had direct access to a commander-in-chief. Not all of Murdoch’s children were happy about this. During Trump’s presidency, Elisabeth, Prudence and James started to drift away from their father’s politics.

When Roger Ailes, the longtime Fox CEO, left the company in 2016 off the back of multiple sexual harassment allegations, James reportedly believed he could push the network in a new direction, bringing in an experienced executive who was less of an ideologue. Instead, the elder Murdoch took over as chair himself.

In the summer of 2020, James – once a senior executive at News Corp – announced he was resigning from the board over “disagreements over certain editorial content”. He and his wife, Kathryn, were particularly vocal about the climate crisis and seemed to resent Fox News and News Corp’s climate denialism. “We’ve been arguing about politics since I was a teenager,” James told the Times in 2020, about his father. In 2020, James and his wife donated more than $600,000 to Biden’s campaign. Murdoch eventually crowned Lachlan as his successor. While Lachlan does not speak publicly about his personal political views, reports have said they usually lean more conservative than his father’s. And while Lachlan appears less interested than his father in political influence, he cares about profit. And Trump has been profitable.

The Observer (the Sunday version of The Guardian) has an illuminating piece on the Murdoch media empire, and how Rupert Murdoch is going to war over who gets to succeed him upon his death by rewriting the trust to benefit stridently right-wing Lachlan at the expense of the other three (and less right-wing) children.

[wipbigbang]

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[laiqualaurelote]

Hellooo! Paranormal investigator AU for Phrack, maybe? Thank you!!

thank you for the prompt! (from this AU ask game) This is a fun one. Though one could easily set it in the modern day, I would still set it in the 1920s, because that was such a fascinating time in terms of the spiritual and supernatural - you've got the Spiritualism revival that the show briefly explores in Death Comes Knocking, the rise of silent horror films like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Nosferatu, and the moral panic association between jazz and vampires, which is how you get the Jazz Age Vamp (taken literally in the Rivers of London second novel Moon Over Soho, which has vampires that feed on jazz).

Phryne is one such Jazz Age Vamp (not literally; she is perfectly human). She solves supernatural cases because she remains haunted by her sister's murder at the hands of necromancer Murdoch Foyle, which she has never been able to get him convicted for (it is very difficult to prove necromancy in a court of law). She is descended from a long line of witches on her mother's side. This means that Aunt Prudence is in fact a witch of considerable strength, but chooses to use none of it because Magic is Not Proper. As they have no female descendants, they adopt Jane into their line so she will inherit the power.

Jack is the detective inspector who keeps getting assigned all the cases with a whiff of the supernatural because nobody else wants to handle them. He has inadvertently become the 1920s Melbourne equivalent of the Folly (if you know Rivers of London). This is despite the fact that he is deeply skeptical by nature - had one too many run-ins with scam artists pretending to be mediums (the hypnotist whom Jane is forced to steal for is one such conman) - and is convinced that Miss Fisher is a fraud. After reluctantly solving multiple cases with her, he concedes ghosts are real but remains immensely annoyed about it.

Dot is a real medium who struggles to reconcile her gift with her Catholic faith. She falls in love with Hugh after being forced to exorcise him, because he is exactly the kind of idiot who would end up getting possessed on his first case.

Mac still works at the morgue, which is full of ghosts. She can see them but mostly ignores them ("are you trying to sabotage your own autopsy, madam? no? then go cry in the corner till I'm done. Thank you.")

Bert came back from the war. Cec did not. This has not stopped them from driving a cab together. Their cab can take you to any part of Melbourne, including the city of the dead. They are still Communists. They take the "spectre haunting" aspect of it very seriously.

Mr Butler has been working at Wardlow for the past century and plans to continue doing so indefinitely. Nobody knows if he is alive, dead, or undead; moreover they feel it is impolite to ask.

Every case in this AU has a supernatural element except Death Comes Knocking, wherein it is revealed that every single person involved is scamming everyone else.

Arthur Conan Doyle makes a cameo in Away With the Fairies. Harry Houdini makes a cameo in Death Defying Feats and spends most of it trashing Doyle's views on spiritualism.

Crypt of Tears is greatly improved by the crypt being full of actual undead.

[collapsedsquid]

When Murdoch dies, his six children will each inherit a portion of the economic ownership of that stock. Right now four of those children stand to inherit equal voting rights over the trust, and they seem to be at odds with each other about the company’s business strategy and journalistic standards. This arguably undermines the purpose of the super-voting stock: You might want one person to have control of the company, insulated from conflicting pressures, to “promote stability.” Murdoch might want the economic ownership (of his 14% ownership stake) to be divided among his children, but he might want the voting control (of his 41% voting stake) to be concentrated in one of them. And so the solution is dual-class stock on top of dual-class stock: Give one Murdoch child (Lachlan) super-voting control over the trust that has super-voting control over News Corp. and Fox Corp

Rupert Murdoch, 93 years old, is seeking to amend his trust—which holds big stakes in Fox News owner Fox Corp. and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp—to ensure that when he dies Lachlan will control the family holdings spanning cable news, sports media, streaming, newspapers, book publishing and real estate. James Murdoch is resisting the change, and these days he has Elisabeth and Prudence on his side.  A trial to settle the dispute is set to begin Monday in a probate court in Nevada, where the trust is based. It will be closed to the public unless pending legal challenges to open up the proceedings are successful.

Pshaw courts, younger Murdoch children you need to raise your troops, march on your father and demand your rightful inheritance at swordpoint

[tomorrowusa]

Biden’s superpower is that he keeps getting opponents to underestimate him.

He called Putin’s bluff in Ukraine. And even before the invasion began the White House allowed the declassification of intelligence which revealed Russian plans to stage a fake incident (like the 1939 Gleiwitz incident) to justify Putin’s invasion.

Republicans went into the debt ceiling negotiations believing too much of their own propaganda about Biden. in the end, close to nobody is concluding that Speaker Kevin McCarthy came out ahead on this deal.  

Edward Luce wrote at The Financial Times (archived)...

Rarely in the history of fiscal brinkmanship has so much noise been made by so many Republicans with so little to show for it. The result is a win for Biden that prudence stops him from celebrating.

[ ... ]

McCarthy, along with many others, serially underestimates Biden. In spite of being owned by the nonagenarian Rupert Murdoch, Fox News and its imitators are obsessed with the octogenarian Biden’s alleged senility. “Republicans got outsmarted by a president who can’t find his pants,” tweeted Nancy Mace, a Republican lawmaker who said she will vote against the deal.

In practice, Biden played the game of chicken well. He took it seriously by flying home early from his Asian trip in mid-May. In the interests of stopping a default, he resisted the temptation to call his opponents pyromaniacs. Biden’s age and limited energy may even have helped. It is useful to have a calm temperament in the midst of a crisis.

In an age of superhero action films, having a calm and measured temperament is often overlooked as an advantage.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (21-27 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 rounding third, sliding home. (througheden) - 68K, enjoyable steddie AU with pro baseball player Steven & massage therapist Eddie

🥰 Daddy Issues (His Boy Next Door #39) (RJ Moray) - reread; just a big fan of Jack & Channon & their ongoing story!

🥰 Common Ground (His Boy Next Door #40) (RJ Moray) - LOVE that Jack & Ewan are finding some common ground - really love that this series is showing how two people who don't particularly care for each other can work to find connection for the sake of the people they DO love

😍 ACT-verse series (ann_anotherthing) - truly outstanding series about middle-aged Steddie getting a 2nd chance romance after their first one flamed out 25 yrs earlier. Full series is 117K but it starts with A Certain Type (54K), which is a fully complete story with satisfying HEA - the rest are flashback fics or wonderfully indulgent epilogue/vignettes, full of fluffy and delicious porn. The author confesses to basically turning them into her middle-aged OCs but 1) I think her projections of their characters in middle-age with these particular life experiences seem reasonably plausible and more importantly 2) I don't fucking care because this story and these characters (main & supporting) are AMAZING.

💖💖 +227K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

When you stop being a ghost in a shell (Bittersweet_in_Boston) - MCU: Stucky, 12K - Hydra finds Steve in 1952 & then they have The Asset and The Captain. Except they really should have known better than to ever let them see one another.

Where the Sunflowers Grow (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Buckingham, 30K - incredible Chrissy recovery fic with bonus Buckingham. Just. So Fucking Good.

Early Returns (rageprufrock) - Inception: Arthur/Eames, 15K - fabulous AU where Arthur's an editor who has everything on lock, dammit & Eames is a reporter who wants to mess him up. Also the newsroom is nothing but a high-pressure high school when it comes to gossip.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Murdoch Mysteries - s16, e14-20

Um, Actually - s9, e5; s1, e3, 4, 6-20

Game Changer - s6, e6

Smartypants - s1, e1

Ghosts (US) - s3, e9

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Untapped Rage" (s21, e16)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Honor the Cock" (s16, e16)

Dead Boy Detectives - s1, e1-3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #13: Of the Gentle Sea

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep13 "Of the Gentle Sea"

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #14: There is an Ocean Vaster Than This One

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep14 "There is an Ocean Vaster Than This One"

99% Invisible - The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What Next: TBD - The Internet Archive Endangered

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: A Tasty Tale about Meyer Lemons

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: Love Letters

The Sporkful - Priya Krishna Writes The Kids Cookbook She Wished She'd Had

The Allusionist - 193. Word Play 3: Lemon Demon

WikiHole - Cicadas…LIVE (with Matt Rogers, Carl Tart and Claudia O'Doherty)

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 3: Fanfiction fixit data

Vibe Check - Her Mediocrity Cannot Touch Me

Code Switch - How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel

Short Wave - Beavers Can Help With Climate Change. So How Do We Get Along?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: Oh, the places you will go …. to see these notable trees

⭐ Decoder Ring - Making Real Music for a Fake Band

Ologies with Alie Ward - Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 2 with Rosemary Mosco

All Songs Considered - Cruel songs for the cruelest month

Pop Culture Happy Hour - What Makes A Good Sex Scene?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: Killer Trees with Mary Roach

Shedunnit - Agatha Christie's Many Houses

⭐ 99% Invisible #579 - Towers of Silence

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat: Sound and Music Talkback Extravaganza: The Sound and the Fury: Music is All Around Us Volume 1

Dear Prudence - My love language with friends is touch, but it makes my partner jealous. Help!

Worlds Beyond Number - Fireside Chat for Chapter 1 of The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One

⭐ Endless Thread - The Jackie Show

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for LEVELING UP (1 to 2)

Today, Explained - Honey, We Saved the Bees

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Renée Elise Goldsberry

⭐ Hit Parade - The Bridge: What Made Them Beautiful

History Is Sexy - Episode #86 - Napoleon III

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

'80s Pop Party

Village People radio

[ao3feed-mfmm]

And a Promise to Look Before You

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/EjQfPTq

by aurora_australis

Believing that history could be changed for the better, and theorising that one could time travel within their own lifetime, in 1958 The Honourable Phryne Fisher stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished.

And she wasn’t alone.

Words: 3243, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Phryne Fisher, Jack Robinson, Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Hugh Collins, Prudence Stanley, Elizabeth MacMillan, Tobias Butler, Murdoch Foyle

Relationships: Phryne Fisher/Jack Robinson

Additional Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, The Loosest of Loose Quantum Leap AUs

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/EjQfPTq

[allthenewsworld]

"Family has always been very important to Rupert Murdoch."

A court battle to determine the future of Rupert Murdoch's media empire and a £14.9bn family trust has begun in the US.

The case will pit 93-year-old Mr Murdoch against three of his eldest children over who will gain the most voting shares and power to control News Corp and Fox News when the billionaire dies.

It has been reported that Mr Murdoch wanted to amend a family trust created in 1999 so that son Lachlan could take control without "interference" from his siblings Prudence, Elisabeth and James.

Mr Murdoch, who has been married five times, also has two younger children, Grace and Chloe, who do not have any voting rights under the trust agreement.

Tap the link in our bio to find out more about the Murdoch media empire.

#Rupert Murdoch #Succession #allthenews

[warningsine]

One of the pleasures of watching the final season of HBO’s media dynasty drama Succession was knowing that the Murdochs were obsessed with the show even as they professed not to watch it. In my May Vanity Fair cover story about the Murdochs—the inspiration for the fictional Roy clan—I reported that Rupert Murdoch’s divorce settlement with his fourth wife Jerry Hall mandated that Hall couldn’t give story ideas to the Succession writers. “Rupert and Lachlan hated the show,” a person close to the family told me.

Which is why it’s deliciously ironic that Rupert’s decision to retire last month and elevate his eldest son Lachlan to the throne was made to avoid the chaos that played out on Succession’s final season. Spoiler alert: In the acclaimed third episode, patriarch Logan Roy dies suddenly on his private jet without having named a successor. In a document found in Logan’s safe about who should take over, his second eldest son Kendall’s name is either underlined or crossed out, depending on how you interpreted the handwriting. The ambiguity creates a power vacuum that paralyzes the family and the company.

According to three sources close to the Murdochs, Rupert and Lachlan agreed Rupert should retire while he was alive to avoid a messy transfer of power as befell the Roys. “Lachlan’s message to Rupert was: You could drop dead on the job! There has to be a plan in place now,” said one of the sources briefed on the conversations. “Lachlan didn’t want his father to go, but it was more like, How long are we going to pretend you’re immortal?” As I’ve previously reported, Rupert’s health was buffeted by crises. In recent years, he was secretly hospitalized for a broken back, seizures, two bouts of pneumonia, atrial fibrillation, a torn Achilles tendon, and COVID-19.

According to the second source close to the family, Rupert first broached the idea of retirement to Lachlan two years ago. Since then, the two have had long conversations about the timing of the decision. The source added that Lachlan did not pressure Rupert to go. Rupert told Lachlan he wanted to step down before this year’s annual shareholder meeting. None of my sources said the decision was made because Lachlan and Rupert were reacting to the Succession plotline. “It’s more of a case where truth is stranger than fiction,” the first source said.

By retiring while still alive, Rupert has solidified his chosen heir’s place on the throne—for now. It’s harder to remove Lachlan when he’s been officially anointed by Rupert. But the ultimate future of the media empire will be decided by Rupert’s four adult children from his first and second marriages. As I’ve previously reported, Lachlan’s younger brother James wants Fox News to become a centrist and fact-based news network after Rupert’s death. But to topple Lachlan, James will need his older sisters Elisabeth and Prudence to support him. It’s too early to tell which way their votes would go. For now, at least, Lachlan is in charge.

A spokesperson for Fox Corp declined to comment.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Li Zhou at Vox:

The Murdochs — the real-life media family that inspired HBO’s Succession — are currently navigating a court case that could rival any fictional drama. The family, led by 93-year-old patriarch Rupert Murdoch, controls a vast, global news organization that includes the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London, as well as Fox News in the United States. When it comes to Fox News in particular, Rupert Murdoch has exercised a great level of editorial control, helping to shape the network’s coverage — and, as a result, conservative political narratives in the US. Rupert Murdoch stepped back from running his empire in 2023, and handed the role of chair of News Corp to his eldest son, Lachlan, who also stayed on as CEO of Fox Corp, and is seen as the Murdoch child most politically aligned with his father’s conservative viewpoints.

Upon Rupert Murdoch’s death, however, the voting shares he holds in the companies are set to be split evenly among the four children he had in his first marriage to Patricia Booker and second marriage to Anna Murdoch Mann — including Lachlan. In a new court case set to begin this week, Rupert Murdoch is now pushing to amend the previously established trust to give the bulk of this power to Lachlan.

At stake is the ideological future of Fox News and News Corp: Unlike Lachlan, the other three elder Murdoch siblings — James, Elisabeth, and Prudence — are viewed as more centrist, and could take the family’s media outlets in a more moderate direction. That concern is among those that spurred Rupert Murdoch to pursue this court action, and to shift more control to the child he sees as most likely to carry on his vision. The outcome will be determined by Nevada probate commissioner Edmund Gorman in a closed Reno court. The trust, which was created in 1999 around Murdoch and Murdoch Mann’s divorce proceedings, was designed to be “irrevocable,” or quite difficult to change. In order to make the amendment, Rupert Murdoch will have to demonstrate that the alteration is to the benefit of all of his heirs. Whether he succeeds could have a major impact, both on the future of the outlets in his media empire, and on the role they play in shaping US and global politics.

What this could all mean for the future of Fox News

Fox News, which Rupert Murdoch first founded in 1996, has become a mainstay for conservative cable news, and is known for elevating former President Donald Trump as well as misinformation about everything from election interference to climate change. In 2023, Fox paid Dominion Voting Systems $787 million after it was sued for amplifying lies suggesting that the company’s machines were rigged against a Trump win. During that lawsuit, documents came out indicating that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch knew Trump’s claims the election was stolen were lies, but chose to do nothing to discourage them. Instead, they decided to focus on deepening viewers’ trust of Fox News, seemingly by broadcasting what Trump’s supporters wanted to hear.

As of now, Rupert Murdoch holds a 40 percent voting share in both News Corp and Fox Corp, and under the existing trust, each of the four siblings would get an equal fraction of this when he passes away. If Rupert Murdoch wins the Reno court case, and Lachlan gains the majority of these shares, the network could well continue, and even expand, its conservative approach. “It’s important to note that Lachlan’s politics are far more conservative than his father,” Hollywood Reporter special correspondent Lachlan Cartwright previously said on The New Abnormal podcast. In that scenario, his siblings would still receive financial inheritances, but they would have much less say in the media outlets’ future, much like Rupert’s two youngest daughters, Grace and Chloe, from his third marriage to Wendi Deng. If the trust stays as is, however, there’s a possibility that James, Elisabeth, and Prudence work together to moderate the network’s tone.

With Rupert Murdoch likely to kick the bucket within the next few years, The Murdoch Family are in a succession imbroglio to determine the direction News Corporation and Fox Corporation head, especially in regards to content on FBN and FNC.

Lachlan Murdoch wants to build on and even expand the Murdoch Empire’s conservative tilt, while Prudence, James, and Elisabeth want to move away from it.

[osarothomprince]

‘Succession,’ Which Is About A Rupert Murdoch-Like Dynasty, Was Named In Murdoch’s Actual Divorce Terms With Jerry Hall

HBO Anyone who knows even the basic plotline of Succession can’t help but imagine that the show was at least partially inspired by Rupert Murdoch and the very public succession battle his kids—Lachlan, James, Elisabeth, and Prudence—have engaged in. Rupert—the billionaire media mogul whose vast empire of properties includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal,…‘Succession,’ Which Is About A Rupert…

[laiqualaurelote]

#10 or #29, for a Miss Fisher fic

I've answered 10 here!

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

I actually haven't got a lot of spare stuff for MFMM because I wound up using nearly everything I wrote for it (also I tried to have a poke around in my drafts but I could not find the Gdoc for World Enough And Time? this is...alarming. I'd say I dreamt I wrote it but it's right there on AO3). So: random fic idea.

Had I had world enough and time I would have expanded there's something wild about you, child, reinterpreting the entire series as a fae AU. Some highlights:

we would get more backstory on how Aunt Prudence raised changeling!Phryne, deliberately training her to handle iron (this is why she can use a gun if the handle is clad in oak, or take trains)

at some point Dot would have acquired a unicorn. She would have called him, IDK, Stuart

Jane is half-fae. Her mother disappeared because she followed her lover through the veil. She returns after what she thinks was half a day but was in fact ten years

there would still be a Gilbert & Sullivan opera but it would be Iolanthe, not Ruddigore

Camilla would be a hugupo (tiger spirit)

Away With The Fairies would involve literal fairies, probably

the S1 arc: Murdoch Foyle, the original King of the Winter Court, seeks to regain his power by sacrificing four changelings, Phryne being the last

the S2 arc: Sidney Fletcher, stealer of children, is the Erlking

the S3 arc: the final antagonist would be the Gentleman with the Plucked Eyes, who is the King of the Summer Court and Phryne's real father. Following the Tam Lin myth, Jack would get stolen and Phryne would have to save him from the Wild Hunt by holding him fast and fearing him not

the fic would end with Jack introducing Phryne to his grandmother, and Phryne telling him her real name

(from this fic ask game, thank you for asking!)

[melbournenewsvine]

Lachlan Murdoch is the winner of the News-Fox merger

Fox’s Class A shares closed Oct. 14 at $31.55, down 15 percent for the year, while News Corp. was down 34 percent to $15.60. Venkateshwar compared the deal to the re-established Redstone family at Viacom and CBS, which he said did not add much value. “There is likely to be some investor panic about the thought process behind any combination of the two companies and a clumsy investor reaction is likely to be negative,” Venkateshwar wrote. James and his wife Catherine have criticized the empire’s coverage of issues such as climate change.attributed to him:Getty Images At MoffettNathanson, analysts Robert Fishman and Michael Nathanson said the plan was also left “confused”. “We don’t believe in sum-of-the-parts stories, and the combination of Fox Group and News Corp’s assets likely will not result in any revaluation and will likely complicate the narrative for investors,” they wrote. They wrote that Fox as a separate asset has a clear focus. The authority of the patriarch Rupert Murdoch, 91, usually makes his way into the business he started building seven decades ago. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fox and CEO of News Corp. He also has the largest share of the vote in the family’s trust, which includes a saying of his four eldest sons, Lachlan; mosques; and two daughters, Prudence and Elizabeth. Special committees of independent directors will explore potential terms and there is no certainty of a deal. Fox and News Corp have both developed their digital offerings in recent years, and Lachlan believes he can use both traditional and new media to launch and promote businesses in the future. The internal quarrels of the family, which were the inspiration for the HBO series SuccessionWell dated. James and his wife Catherine have criticized the empire’s coverage of issues such as climate change. Katherine is on the board of 19, a news organization dedicated to women’s issues and public policy, and they helped fund Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative news outlet. They are also a major donor to Democratic candidates. Meanwhile, Lachlan defended the split of the two companies in a 2019 presentation to investors. Spit, he said, allowed the company to return to its roots as “an agile, creative, entrepreneurial, and at times paradoxical company.” He even went so far as to say that he “sees no sense in reversing the benefits of those specific verbs”. loading His thinking has changed, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. The media landscape has shifted with more consumers viewing content online. Fox and News Corp have both developed their digital offerings in recent years, and Lachlan believes he can use both traditional and new media to launch and promote businesses in the future. Bloomberg Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

[danteriverflow]

I think we have to come to the realisation that the "Left" will never be allowed to form a government in the UK. For any chance of defeating the tories their vote must be split.

Labour must split. Leftists and Blairite. Starmer (or whoever) can lead the centrists and someone else can lead the leftists.

This might seem counter productive with all the focus on the tories winning over the working class vote in the north but if the working class vote in the north counted for anything we would have labour governments all the time. We do not. Purely by numbers it is the southern constituencies that wins the elections. The northern vote is just the icing on the cake if you can get it.

All indications are that an election is coming much sooner rather than later, certainly before the 2024 expected date.

The south, based on local authority results, looks like it is turning against the tories1, slowly, but it is there. I know several true blue tories that are turning against the tories and voting liberal or green.

The Queens speech has angered many of the tories traditional supporters it takes for granted. Just as labour is accused of ignoring voters in the north, this is just what is happening to the tories in the south.

Johnson is destroying the tories from within. If Murdoch doesn't get his mitts on the BBC (like, I suspect, he was promised before the last election) soon he will turn against them. The daily mail is already doing this.

As Johnson destroys the tories, false an undeserved, reputation for financial stability, prudence, and security with his ever lavish clown car ideas the traditional old school tory voters of the south will jump ship. Where will they go? Lib Dems and their socks and sandals reputation? The raffia maffia Greens?

Unless there is a "socialist" free alternative headed by someone who looks and sounds coherent, trustworthy and stable they will stick with what they know hoping the madness of Johnson will soon pass. By then it will be too late. The Conservative Party will just be the Eaton BNP.

If Labour don’t get a grip on who they are and what they stand for they deserve everything they get. People (brexit voters and remain voters) want a land of hope and glory. Whatever you think of Blair he understood this and could sell it.

Sky News reports ↩︎