Conrad Black told the story over the weekend of how Rupert Murdoch positively delighted in the death of Robert Maxwell. The former Telegraph proprietor, while no fan of Maxwell, did not relish the thought of his competitor floating, dead, in the sea. “I do,” said Murdoch.
Among proprietors there is an unwritten code, that while they do not exactly go out of their way to embrace each other, neither do they go personally hostile. Clearly, Murdoch, who had been Maxwell’s head-to-head rival for years as The Sun took on The Mirror, saw things differently. He was that ruthless and unforgiving.
