Rupert Murdoch Retires, A Little Bit

What a bang-up job he's done in the past ten years.

He's "transitioning" to the position of Chairman Emeritus, which I assume means something like "he'll continue to have as much power as he wants at any given time, letting his useless liberal sons control things when he doesn't have the energy."

Kind of like things already were.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is transitioning from his roles as Chair of Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp, he announced on Thursday.

Murdoch, 92, informed colleagues in a letter Thursday of his decision, noting he was in good health. He will officially make the transition in November, and his son Lachlan will become the sole chairman of both companies.

"I am writing to let you all know that I have decided to transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus at Fox and News," Murdoch wrote. "For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change. But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams and a passionate, principled leader in Lachlan who will become sole Chairman of both companies...."

Murdoch went on to say the battle over freedom of speech and freedom of thought had never been more intense, and he said his family remained firmly committed to that cause.

Yeah, you showed that when you fired Tucker Carlson and then used the threat of lawsuit to keep him from going on television to express his opinions.

Don't weep the loss of Rupert Murdoch. Megyn Kelly, who certainly knows something about Fox, says that Rupert Murdoch was never, ever a "conservative." He's just a soulless moneywhore with fathomless appetite. (My words, not hers.)

The conservative leading Fox was Roger Ailes, and once Murdoch fired him, everything went to shit.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:35 PM

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