Rupert Murdoch Reportedly Battling Three Of His Children to Ensure Conservative Focus of His Media Empire
“to ensure that his eldest son and chosen successor, Lachlan, would remain in charge of his vast collection of television networks and newspapers”
I can already hear people complaining that FOX News isn’t actually conservative. But can you imagine what our current media landscape would be like without it? Or what things would be like if FOX News was taken over by people who think CNN is centrist?
The New York Times reports:
The Secret Battle for the Future of the Murdoch Empire
Rupert Murdoch is locked in a secret legal battle against three of his children over the future of the family’s media empire, as he moves to preserve it as a conservative political force after his death, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times.
Mr. Murdoch, 93, set the drama in motion late last year, when he made a surprise move to change the terms of the Murdochs’ irrevocable family trust to ensure that his eldest son and chosen successor, Lachlan, would remain in charge of his vast collection of television networks and newspapers.
The trust currently hands control of the family business to the four oldest children when Mr. Murdoch dies. But he is arguing in court that only by empowering Lachlan to run the company without interference from his more politically moderate siblings can he preserve its conservative editorial bent, and thus protect its commercial value for all his heirs.
Those three siblings — James, Elisabeth and Prudence — were caught completely off-guard by their father’s effort to rewrite what was supposed to be an inviolable trust and have united to stop him. Lachlan has joined on Mr. Murdoch’s side. Remarkably, the ensuing battle has been playing out entirely out of public view.
Last month, the Nevada probate commissioner found that Mr. Murdoch could amend the trust if he is able to show he is acting in good faith and for the sole benefit of his heirs, according to a copy of his 48-page decision.
A trial to determine whether Mr. Murdoch is in fact acting in good faith is expected to start in September. Hanging in the balance will be the future of one of the most politically influential media companies in the English-speaking world.
More from Fortune:
Rupert Murdoch is going to court to push his 3 more liberal kids out of his Fox and News Corp media empires
Rupert Murdoch is in a secretive legal battle with three of his children to push them out of his News Corp and Fox media empires and hand control to his conservative son Lachlan, it has been reported.
Murdoch went to court last year in a bid to increase Lachlan’s voting power at the expense of his three other children, James, Elisabeth, and Prudence, who have grown uncomfortable with the media empire’s rightward shift, The New York Times reported.
The billionaire, alongside Lachlan, is arguing a “lack of consensus” will disrupt Fox’s and News Corp’s strategic direction, according to court documents reviewed by the publication.
Murdoch’s three other children, who are said to have been blindsided by the move, have reportedly hired their own legal team to contest their father’s plans.
Under a Nevada probate, where the battle is playing out, Lachlan will gain more control of the empire if he and his father can indeed prove the dramatic shift to voting rights is in the best interests of his organization.
Remember John O’Sullivan’s first law: “All organizations that are not explicitly right-wing will over time become left-wing.”
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Too little too late, dude. Where’s he been for the past 20 years?
Sell Fox to someone really conservative and give the money away. That will teach those ungrateful spawn of yours.
In comparison to others MSNBC/CNN then sure Fox is center/right. If it is ‘conservative’ then it is in the sense of clinging to the last vestiges of the post Cold War and pre 9/11 era mindset which is horribly out of touch/out of date with the current realities of our Nation.
There’s always disowning, the traditional way to dissolve reciprocal family possessives.
His daughters-in-law have always been to the left of Lenin, they are the power behind his kids.
Three items in the news:
1. Rupert Murdoch battling three children to ensure conservative focus
2. Kamala Harris battling three demons to ensure ultra far left focus
3. Biden’s battle is over. He has lost his focus and is virtually a vegetable
He gave a lot of money to Hillary and shielded Obama from serious scrutiny. He wants to maintain the commonly held perception of conservatism for market benefit. He might be wrong. The audience is aging fast. More than half the airtime is devoted to ads for the maladies of senior citizens, depicted as happily dancing and smiling through white dentures, thanks to snake oil supplements and magic pillows.
I had someone gift me a small MyPillow. That thing is awesome and is not my default camping pillow.
Ugh. Now. It is now.
He shud have done a better job raising them
Teaching them in what is conservative, and teaching them to b more depending into what they married.
Leninist girls are easy.
Decerning….
Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics:
Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
John Derbyshire adds this:
Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty International as examples.
Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucracy sometimes actually is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies — e.g. the postwar British secret service.
John Moore thinks the third law is almost right; it should read “assume that it is controlled by a cabal of the enemies of the stated purpose of that bureaucracy.”
Good on Rupert for pushing back against the Left, even in his own family!
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