In the real life game of Succession, Lachlan Murdoch is winning – for now
The TelegraphBorn in London as the second of Mr Murdoch’s three children by his second wife, Scottish journalist Anna Torv, Lachlan grew up in New York and studied philosophy at Princeton University. Lachlan’s promotion could also be bad news for TalkTV, the station set up by Mr Murdoch last year, which has struggled to find an audience and which Lachlan “is not exactly impressed with”, according to a source close to the family. In the US, the future of the right-wing Fox News television channel was already in doubt after Tucker Carlson, its popular and most outspoken political commentator, was sacked in April, which was followed by Mr Murdoch withdrawing support for Donald Trump, who enjoys huge patronage from Fox News viewers. He said Rupert Murdoch “made his mind up a few months ago that Trump wasn’t going to succeed, but once Trump becomes the Republican nominee I think you will find that Fox backs Trump”. Borrowing a phrase from Succession’s Logan Roy, one family friend said: “We are about to find out whether Lachlan is a ‘serious person’.”
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