It has been a pretty good week for Rupert Murdoch, who on Monday successfully exercised power over his offspring, securing the future of his media empire in an agreement that put to bed a yearslong familial battle . The deal clears the path for his son Lachlan to be heir to his vast media empire until at least 2050.
Meanwhile, the media mogul didn’t allow Donald Trump ’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal —over reporting on the now infamous birthday letter sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—to deter the outlet from continuing to publish hard-hitting political journalism on the White House. The legal challenge appeared even more meritless when the letter itself, which Trump argued did not exist, was published in the Journal after lawyers fo