Lachlan Murdoch, the 52-year-old eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, assuming command of Fox News along with the world’s most important newspaper empire after the announcement of this father’s retirement, will join the most powerful people in politics, with the power to elect presidents, anoint prime ministers and warp the reality that the rest of us are living in. Just like his father. We surely should be asking what kind of leader he will be.
But, because power is seldom what it seems, we should ask too about how power changes when it shifts. Does Lachlan rise to the occasion, or will he yet remain the dutiful, diffident, honour-thy-father son of the man who has theoretically handed the reins of the company over to him?
