Must Read - Rupert Murdoch

Click here for a long, long article at The New York Times by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg, entitled "How Rupert Murdoch's Empire of Influence Remade the World."

The article includes:

Part 1: Imperial Reach. Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?

Part 2: Internal Divisions. President Trump’s election made the Murdoch family more powerful than ever. But the bitter struggle between James and Lachlan threatened to tear the company apart.

Part 3: The New Fox Weapon. The Disney deal left the Murdochs with a media empire stripped to its essence: a hard-core right-wing news machine — with Lachlan in charge.

Brian Stelter comments:

Murdochland was quiet when the NYT published its three-part investigation of "Planet Fox" two weeks ago. But one of Rupert's top execs, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, has something to say. In a Tuesday evening speech, he "dismissed the NYT's investigation as a 'rancid hatchet job' that was 'distant from the truth,'" according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Thomson called it "multi-generational muck-spreading in which the facts were incidental, if not accidental, and the journalistic jaundice and corporate self-interest were fundamental." Hmmm, which facts? I don't see any corrections on the story!