Behind the scenes, Rupert Murdoch groomed his sons Lachlan and James for top positions in the family business. In the BBC documentary “The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty” (2020), it seems “family has always been important to Rupert, especially from a dynasty-building perspective”. Statement by Andrew Neil, former employee of The Sunday Times. “The conversations were about how he was building the company for them. And he liked to pit them against each other sometimes, to see how they would react.”
Family is important, he wants one of his children to take over when he grows up. But especially one of his sons, because Elisabeth has no place in Murdoch’s plans. “He didn’t think women could really do that kind of thing at the time, although I think he may have changed his mind over the years,” Neil said in an interview. podcast from the Americano Spectator earlier this year.
Elisabeth previously stated that she had “absolutely no ambition” to succeed her father. He Managing director of Sky Networks, partly owned by News Corp, but founded its own production company, Shine, in 2000. It was purchased in 2011 by… News Corp..
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