2025-03-07
34 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, the firsthand account inside the Murdoch succession drama.
Say the name Rupert Murdoch and it conjures the enormously influential media empire he's created,
from Fox News and the Wall Street Journal to Dow Jones
and Har Rupert Collins to the scores of tabloids and TV stations he's built across the world.
And over the decades of his career,
his name has also become synonymous with his extraordinary power
as a conservative force in global media.
Rupert, through his newspapers, TV outlets,
has the ability to make or break political careers, topple governments,
and I think a lot of people would say
that he played a large role in delivering Donald Trump to the White House.
That's McKay Coppens, staff writer for the Atlantic.
In his latest piece, McKay reminds us that for six people on the planet,
Rupert Murdoch isn't just a powerful media mogul, he's also dad.
His family has become a point of fixation for many in the media
because Rupert has always tried to draw his adult children into the family business.
Rupert is now 93 years old, and when he dies, four of his children, Prudence, Elizabeth, Laughlin,
and James,