With Disney apparently poised to take over key Fox assets, it seems as though the Murdoch family is ceding control of its empire. What’s behind the move?After more than 50 years of deal-making to build one of the world’s biggest media companies, Rupert Murdoch looks to be on the retreat. Cornered by the Fangs – as the tech giants Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google are known – the ageing executive appears to have decided that its time to cash in and give up on a long-held ambition to hand his huge empire on to his children.Until recently, Murdoch-watchers had assumed the patriarch planned to pass control of 21st Century Fox, his studio and TV business, over to one of his sons, Lachlan or James. Now the jewels in his crown look likely to be sold, with one-time rival Walt Disney in pole position to take them over. Continue reading…
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