Last week announced he was stepping back and handing over the running of the massive media business he had built, almost from scratch, over 70 years and across three continents, to his son Lachlan.The move was heralded as a watershed in the history of the Murdoch Empire, in which he'd finally decided which of his children would succeed him, creating the Murdoch dynasty he'd craved since they were young, often pitting them against each other to see who would emerge strongest.In reality, far from settling the future, the War of the Murdoch Succession is only just beginning. It will be nasty, bordering on the brutish, pitting brothers and sisters against each other, making the acclaimed TV drama Succession, fictional but drawing on elements of Murdoch family reality, look like a tea party.
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