But rather than head-hunting or poaching — as the Packers once did — the Park Street publishing house which has survived years of cost-cutting and blood-letting, which is now known as Are Media, is advertising the role online, along with editorships of Take Five and TV Week. PS keeps hearing reports of high-profile social pages types flouting coronavirus lockdown rules and partaking in top-secret and highly illegal gatherings around town, including one luncheon held by an anti-vaxxer socialite and her mates inside the private dining room of a well-known eatery.
If only we had photos. Imagine what her reaction to a ventilator would be? Noses are out of joint. Names are dropping off lists. Sign up here. Lachlan Murdoch due to leave Australia, headed for New York. It does. But I think sometimes, inside the journalism world, it gets a little more credit than it deserves on that. I wondered if Rupert Murdoch ever got mad at Kathryn for pulling James to the light side on the environment and other issues.
Was it daunting to argue with him? I actually have friends whose fathers are far scarier. Rupert actually told James to marry me as soon as he possibly could. Kathryn Murdoch has been tempted to watch Succession. The other thing is, the dramatisation of family affairs is as old as anything. Not at all. I think having agency from the beginning when I left school and started on my own, to set up with some partners, a tiny hip-hop record label, to moving with Kathryn to Hong Kong a few years later.
After so much time in the executive suite, Murdoch seems genuinely excited to be in a smaller shop. He said that last year, just for the hell of it, he thought of becoming an architect, going back to school. This person is up and down and this is success and this is failure.
I wondered what he made of Fox News and Trump playing down the coronavirus, even after the president was hospitalised. I asked if he was friends with Ivanka and Jared Kushner. Ivanka was at one point a trustee for the fortune of the two daughters of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng. The Times Magazine report included the detail that James and Lachlan tried to dissuade Pops, as they call him, from marrying Deng; James was worried, based on information he had received from senior foreign officials, that she was a Chinese asset; she has denied that.
I asked Murdoch if he would create his own Game of Thrones and bring in his own children — a daughter and two sons — to help run it. Dowd: When you were 18, you had a summer job as a production assistant on Rising Sun and you held a giant duct of personal air-conditioning on Sean Connery wherever he was on the set.
Murdoch: Yes, I held the air-conditioning behind Sean Connery. He would tell the director, who would tell the first assistant director, who would tell the second assistant director, who would tell me. It was a very hierarchical management of the air-conditioning tube. Murdoch: No, not true. When I went to Sky, for example, it was pretty controversial. But the writer, Steve Fishman, appears to have had Lachlan's co-operation.
He has a verbatim account of a conversation over lunch in Los Angeles between father and son when Lachlan decided to quit.
Lachlan was reportedly worried his relationship with his father could deteriorate. And he was also worried about how his baby son, Kalan, might later view him. News spokesman Greg Baxter said yesterday that Lachlan, 34, would not comment on the story.
Last year the New York Times magazine reported that Lachlan had repeatedly texted messages of support to Carlson amid scandals. James Murdoch's exit paves way for News Corp to move further right. Rupert Murdoch, left, with his son James in Idaho in James Murdoch's climate stance distances him from family empire.
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