Does Rupert Murdoch's Retreat Mark His Long Goodbye to the UK?
Posted: 7/23/2012 | By: Dan Sabbagh | The Guardian
Rupert Murdoch's decision to resign from his remaining News International
directorships marks the latest step of an imperial retreat that could
yet end with the media mogul's family cutting ties with his British newspapers.
The 81-year-old is no longer a director of a UK company for the first time since the late 1960s and, with such diminished political influence following the phone hacking scandal, has few reasons to come to Britain bar cursory stops to Wapping and family visits to his daughter Elisabeth.
The 81-year-old is no longer a director of a UK company for the first time since the late 1960s and, with such diminished political influence following the phone hacking scandal, has few reasons to come to Britain bar cursory stops to Wapping and family visits to his daughter Elisabeth.