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I want to know that we're killing the opposition.

I want to be cutting their throats.

Our rivals should be checking in up back of their chauffeur cars

because they can't believe what we did.

So fucking spicy, so true, something everyone knows, but nobody says because they're too

little livered. That was Logan. Lily Lippert. Ha!

That was Logan Roy, the infamous succession of de facto title character, just before in the series,

he died, refusing to go gently into that good night.

It was often said that the character on which he was surely based, Rupert Murdoch,

would be exactly the same, dying as he'd lived working. He's 92. His career in British news,

American news, Australian news, remaking news, global news stretches back seven decades. But today,

he announced that that was coming to an end.

At three o'clock, a news flash, Rupert Murdoch was stepping down from the two companies which he had dominated for so long, Fox and News Corp. It is a truly massive moment. He has been

courted by prime ministers and presidents, kings and princes,

celebrities and tycoons alike. Whatever you think of him, and there are many who believe

his influence on British and American politics, has been nothing short of toxic. He is without

doubt one of the most powerful figures of our time, one of the last remaining great figures of the 20th century.

And in his departing statement, handing over true succession style to his son, Loughlin, he committed

to remaining a force in words that weirdly were not so different from that last Logan Broadside.

In the statement, he blistered,

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