The last thing Rupert Murdoch needed, during a two-month recovery from a fall on his son’s yacht, was to be thrown a curve ball.
But that’s exactly what he faces after Brian Roberts, chief executive of US telecommunications company Comcast, announced a £22.1 billion ($39.4 billion) rival bid for British broadcaster Sky on Tuesday evening.
via How Rupert Murdoch could respond to the latest Sky curveball
James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox (21CF), Fox News’ parent company, would prefer you consider him incompetent rather than malicious. For the second time this decade, scandal at a company he oversaw has imperiled his father Rupert’s effort to take control of European broadcaster Sky. And for the second time, he’s pleading ignorance.
Source: James Murdoch pleads ignorance, again. Will his failure kill his father’s dream deal?
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