{"id":17835,"date":"2025-02-22T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/were-clearly-heading-towards-collapse-why-the-murdoch-empire-is-about-to-go-bang\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:37:34","slug":"were-clearly-heading-towards-collapse-why-the-murdoch-empire-is-about-to-go-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/were-clearly-heading-towards-collapse-why-the-murdoch-empire-is-about-to-go-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re clearly heading towards collapse\u2019: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert\u2019s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media\u2019s most powerful family. This could get messy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When some of the mind games and manoeuvres that turned a Murdoch family \u201cretreat\u201d into an ordeal appeared in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2023\/may\/25\/succession-series-finale-hbo-tru\">Succession<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2023\/may\/25\/succession-series-finale-hbo-tru\">, the TV drama<\/a> about squabbling family members of a right-wing media company, members of the real-life family started to suspect each other of leaking details to the writers. The truth was more straightforward. <em>Succession<\/em>\u2019s creator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2023\/may\/27\/jesse-armstrong-on-the-roots-of-succession-bum-rush-trump-presidency\">Jesse Armstrong<\/a>, said that his team hadn\u2019t needed inside sources \u2013 they had simply read press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Future screenwriters have been gifted a whole load of new Murdoch material in the past few days, after two astonishing stories in the <em>New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Atlantic<\/em> lifted the lid on the dysfunction, paranoia and despair at the heart of the most powerful family in global media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/feb\/22\/were-clearly-heading-towards-collapse-why-the-murdoch-empire-is-about-to-go-bang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6f20e665baff26c94f8d0f2fd8b4c97875b9534b\/0_0_2432_1459\/master\/2432.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dc9c483b71b5066c6449684c5f518aa8\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re clearly heading towards collapse\u2019: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang\" \/>An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert\u2019s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media\u2019s most powerful family. This could get messy\u2026<br \/>\nWhen some of the mind games and manoeuvres that turned a Murdoch family \u201cretreat\u201d into an ordeal appeared in Succession, the TV drama about squabbling family members of a right-wing media company, members of the real-life family started to suspect each other of leaking details to the writers. The truth was more straightforward. Succession\u2019s creator, Jesse Armstrong, said that his team hadn\u2019t needed inside sources \u2013 they had simply read press reports.<br \/>\nFuture screenwriters have been gifted a whole load of new Murdoch material in the past few days, after two astonishing stories in the New York Times and the Atlantic lifted the lid on the dysfunction, paranoia and despair at the heart of the most powerful family in global media. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert\u2019s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media\u2019s most powerful family. This could get messy\u2026 When some of the mind games and manoeuvres that turned a Murdoch family \u201cretreat\u201d into an ordeal appeared in Succession, the TV drama &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/were-clearly-heading-towards-collapse-why-the-murdoch-empire-is-about-to-go-bang\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019re clearly heading towards collapse\u2019: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}