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Interview with rupert murdoch. i remember they said, come on over. and so i walked down 6th avenue and went to the news corp building into the belly of the beast. and there were newspapers everywhere. that s the thing i remember actually more than anything. he had almost every newspaper lined up on the wall. and i think he read them. he was so knee-deep in the family dynamics of the bancroft family and who liked who and who wanted to screw who and who was going to kill who and how you were basically going to split these people apart. of course, he told us repeatedly, i m not here to break up the family. i think my family should meet with their family. he was a family man who had been a steward of his media companies ....
Be rupert murdoch. because it was james idea to sort of hold the bancroft s feet to the fire, the maneuver raises james value in rupert s eyes. well, 34-year-old james murdoch is being given a much larger role overseeing all of news corp s european and asian operations, making him the heir apparent to the murdoch empire. he gets to be the ceo of all of the family s business in europe. does this finally mark my invitation to join the british broadcasting establishment? it was a position that rupert himself had held for a long time, so for rupert to relinquish something like that is such a big step. here s james dutifully following all the steps that his father has put in front of him, exceeding expectations in those jobs, proving himself as an able executive. it s at this point that it seems succession is finally settled. ....
The stock price leapt after rupert made his offer public. the share price of the company that they have been entrusted to protect is going to plummet if they don t take this offer. and the bancrofts blink. the bancroft family said, no way would they sell to this crude media heathen. then they thought about the $5 billion he was offering, and well, what do you know? rupert tells his colleague, they caved, they gave us everything. the most important and influential business publication in america is now in the hands and in control of the murdoch family. what was the feeling inside that board meeting? sadness. and i think a lot of uncertainty about, is this the right thing ....
rupert murdoch does something which was kind of mind-blowing. he makes a hostile bid for dow jones, the company that owns the wall street journal. it s a public company, but it s controlled by a family, the bancrofts. the bancroft family has owned dow jones for over 100 years. it s an old new england family. they are pretty buttoned up, and the posture of that family has always been, this paper is not for sale, we are dedicated to its future. but rupert murdoch is wily, and he understood something about this family that i m not sure others had appreciated, which was maybe because of his own family, that you can break them up. ....