Media Empires: Babies and BT
Peter Fiddick
Rarely can we have had so timely a reminder of how important it is, when contemplating media matters, to take the long view. And who better to have, yet again, shown the rest of the world the way. I refer, of course, to the announcement that Mr and Mrs Rupert Murdoch are expecting a happy event.
When, a couple of years or so ago, the rumours that the elderly AustralianAmerican media mogul had separated from his wife of many years and taken up with a Chineseborn beauty (roughly the age of his...