Rupert Murdoch’s resignation from Fox News: The influential figure behind right-wing populism in the media.

It is too early for an obituary. Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he will now be an „emeritus chairman“ of Fox and News Corp and hand over control to his eldest son Lachlan hardly means that we can now speak about him in the past tense. As former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie put it, „He will be sitting in the backseat of the car while Lachlan drives the damn thing, and it will be a torment for him.“

In seinem Brief an die Belegschaft versuchte Murdoch senior, die Tränen vorzeitig Trauernder so zu trocknen: „Wenn ich Ihre Länder und Unternehmen besuche, können Sie damit rechnen, mich am späten Freitagnachmittag im Büro zu sehen