had a stock response to anybody indelicate enough to inquire if he might one day consider retiring. 'They'll have to carry me out of the office in a box,' he would grunt, which was guaranteed to end any further discussion along these lines.It certainly did on the occasions when I heard him deploy it.Yet here we are. The greatest media mogul of modern times has announced he's stepping back as boss of the newspaper and TV empire he's spent a lifetime building on three continents and handing over control to his son, Lachlan - and not a box in sight.
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