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A spotlight is shining down on a small court in Reno, Nevada, to settle a family squabble and decide the future of a global media empire.
It reads like an episode of succession, that dramatic behind the scenes battle between Rupert Murdoch and three of his children.
At school, 93 year old Rupert Murdoch and his children children are embroiled in a court case over who will take control over Fox Corp.
And News Corp.
The family businesses were talking newspapers, publishing, radio and television.
The empire includes Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal here in the US, the Times in the UK and the Australian in Murdochs native land.
Murdoch started all this with a local australian paper that he inherited from his dad.
Rupert Murdoch once agreed to divide equal control of his empire to his four eldest children.
Now he wants just his elder son, Lachlan, in charge of it all.
But with pushback from his other children, the probate court will decide what's ultimately allowed and who will inherit control.
This is the indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darian woods.
And I'm Adrian Ma.
Today on the show, how did the real life Murdoch succession drama come to be?
And whatll this mean for the future of one of the most influential media networks on the planet and our political discourse?
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