Editorial: Through his businesses, Rupert Murdoch pushed a world view with the pursuit of money at its heart
Fri 22 Sep 2023 19.40 CESThere are not many chairmanships of companies that would so fascinate writers, and television producers, that they would make four series about them. Rupert Murdoch’s long tenure at Fox and News Corp was one. For viewers of Succession,that Mr Murdoch is handing control to his eldest son, Lachlan, is a real-life coda to a dynastic struggle in which they are already immersed – in fictionalised form.
The elder Murdoch’s internet ventures were not on the whole successful, and in our digital age his status has been partly eclipsed. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, the Chinese owners of TikTok, and the boards of Google and Apple, have joined him at the top table of global media influencers.
Mr Murdoch had his most malign effects in the US. The displacement by the intensely ideological Fox News of other news sources, with their traditional aspirations to balance and objectivity, was one means by which Donald Trump gained control of the Republican party and the White House. As hismakes clear, the billionaire thinks of himself as a man of the people and enemy of elites.
Mr Murdoch is widely known to have lost patience with the former US president. Now Lachlan Murdoch is likely to have more sway over next year’s election. His views on the environment will also be crucial. Under his father, the businesses did huge harm by promoting climate denial – andThere are bright spots: books, films, technological innovation, investment in some fine journalism at outlets from Sky News to the Sunday Times. Mr Murdoch’s passion for news in not in doubt.
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