The End of Rupert’s Reign
And why it doesn’t surprise me
Rupert Murdoch famously insisted that he would never retire.
In 1998, when he was already 67 years old, he told an interviewer that if he retired, he would “die pretty quickly.”
Nearly two decades later, in 2015, when Rupert was grooming his son Lachlan to succeed him at Fox, Lachlan said he was well aware that “Rupert’s never retiring.”
So today’s announcement of Murdoch’s new title, chairman emeritus, is the closest step toward retirement that he will likely
