Tag: media

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  LALA’S BOOKNOTES: Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the epic fight to control the last great media dynasty broke a family—and the world, by Gabriel Sherman

  ‘Bonfire of the Murdochs’ by Gabriel Sherman traces Rupert Murdoch’s ruthless creation of a $17 billion global media empire. It exposes a toxic “Darwinian” succession war pitting his children—Lachlan, James, Liz, and Prue—against each other. Ultimately, the patriarch destroyed his own family to secure his right-wing corporate legacy.

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  ELISABETH ‘LIZ’ MURDOCH: A comprehensive profile of ‘the exiled queen’

  Widely considered the sharpest Murdoch child, Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Murdoch’s ambitions were constantly thwarted by her father Rupert Murdoch’s old-fashioned primogeniture. She walked away to build her own successful production company, Shine, which Rupert later bought. Though she often played the family peacemaker, Liz ultimately joined the Nevada lawsuit to stop brother Lachlan’s uncontested takeover of…