I mean that scene tonight between Kendall and Logan felt word for word like James and Rupert’s break up. Amazing stuff.
I'm reading about Elisabeth Murdoch as the 'acceptable' 'nice' face of the Murdoch family, and her MacTaggart speech reminds me of Shiv speaking at the panel at Davos/Argestes.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/10/the-heiress-2
Murdochs and the PR crisis - blaming a few 'bad apples
Later in 2010, as the News of the World scandal metastasized and several of his clients found that their phones had been hacked, Freud and Elisabeth urged Rupert Murdoch not to dismiss the hacking as common industry practice and not to pay hush money to settle claims by hacking victims. Investigate and punish the miscreants, they advised; turn over e-mails and documents to the authorities; don’t risk a coverup.
James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks ignored the advice. They attacked critics, blaming a few rotten apples, and Rupert Murdoch stood squarely behind them, even as Scotland Yard announced that it had received “significant new information.” The issue to Elisabeth, she told me, was “How do we change the conversation? How do we get this company to heal and move on? How do we restore trust?”
Murdochs and the Family Shrink
In an effort to rebuild their fraying relationship, Rupert Murdoch initiated a series of meetings with a professional facilitator and his children, including Lachlan, James, Elisabeth, and Prudence, his daughter from his first marriage. By early 2011, they had dropped the effort.
Elisabeth being the 'nice' Murdoch
Not everyone was enthralled. A Guardian editor in attendance described it as a “clever” speech that shouted, “I’m the nice Murdoch.” She might praise Dennis Potter, but Shine has yet to produce a program of Potter’s calibre
Apart from being the mother to current NewsLTD boss Rupert Murdoch, one cant deny her work as a community leader, charity worker or philanthropist and she has no doubt touched thousands of people with her generosity. Not to mention the Children's Hospital. Anyways, a few sources:
