Rupert Murdoch will celebrate his 79th birthday next month. As he approaches his final years at the helm of his empire, he finds it crumbling around him."It's terrible now," a News Corp. insider tells Gawker, relating the slow, Shakespearian devolution of Murdoch's fierce machinery into turmoil, factionalism, and infighting. The old man, nearing the end of his reign, no longer inspires enough fear or loyalty to keep the jostling for power beneath the surface, and a Lord of the Flies ugliness abounds.Murdoch is a vile man, who has done vile things. It is fitting that the black empire he built so efficiently over the course of his life should begin to fray at the end of his reign.
http://gawker.com/5480363/the-fall-of-the-house-of-murdoch
