Reading the Globe #022: Lachlan in the Fox Wings, Time for Adams to Deliver

Reading the Globe: A weekly digest of the most important news, ideas and culture around the world. by Michael Washburn

Episode notes

Succession at Fox News

Whether or not you are a fan of Fox News, it is reasonable to wonder, as Ken Lacorte does in an April 12 article on National Review Online, what will happen to Fox News after the reign of owner Rupert Murdoch, 91, comes to an end.

Lacorte finds cause for optimism in the person of the young and dynamic Lachlan Murdoch, who is executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation. The presumptive heir to the News Corporation empire recently gave a speech at the Centre for the Australian Way of Life that harshly criticized woke culture’s attacks on figures and symbols of America’s past and what he termed “the dest ... 

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