Bonus: The Global Story - The secret battle for the Murdoch empire
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode from The Global Story.
Rupert Murdoch is locked in a secret court battle with three of his eldest children, over the future of his media empire. The news mogul owns some of the most influential outlets in the world, including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The Times of London. It has been reported that Mr Murdoch wants to amend a family trust to ensure his son and political disciple Lachlan inherits controlling voting rights at News Corp and Fox, but a campaign to unseal the proceedings has been unsuccessful.
On this episode, Lucy Hockings is joined by the BBC's culture and media editor Katie Razzall, and Brian Stelter, chief media analyst at CNN. They unpack what we know about the succession fight, and discuss whether the public should have a right to know what's going on behind closed doors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie |
| 0:04.5 | Sanderson. I'm here to introduce you to the Global Story Podcast, which brings you |
| 0:08.8 | a single story in-depth with insight from the BBC's best journalists. |
| 0:14.0 | There's a new edition every weekday. |
| 0:15.4 | Just search for the global story |
| 0:17.4 | wherever you get your pods. |
| 0:18.8 | And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode. Here's my colleague Lucy Hawkins. |
| 0:25.0 | Today the not-so-secret battle to control the world's |
| 0:35.0 | some of the world's most influential news organizations |
| 0:38.0 | is this week pitted against three of his children |
| 0:41.0 | in a bitter legal contest taking place behind closed doors. |
| 0:45.8 | After dramatically stepping down as Chairman of Fox and News Corp last year, |
| 0:50.8 | the Mercurial Mr Murdoch hoped to pave the way for his so-called favourite son to become the sole heir to his throne. |
| 0:57.5 | But his efforts to amend a family trust, intended to share out the billionaires's voting rights are being challenged by |
| 1:04.0 | Laughlin's siblings. We're asking why all this matters and should the public have the |
| 1:09.5 | right to hear about what's going on. With me today is the BBC's culture and media editor Katie Razzle and also Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media analyst and author of |
| 1:25.9 | Network of Lies, the epic saga of Fox News, Donald Trump and the Battle for |
| 1:31.7 | American democracy. |
| 1:33.4 | Hello. |
| 1:34.4 | Great to be here. |
| 1:35.4 | Good to have you both with us. |
| 1:36.4 | I have to start with a bit of a confession. |
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