American Fortune Life

Chapter 1923: Old and Immortal

“ Murdoch created the media empire with his own hands in the media circles of four continents. His monopoly position in England, when power is highly concentrated in the hands of one person, inevitably leads to abuse of power within the organization, which is also one of the root causes of the events in the Murdoch Empire.

Since the August eavesdropping scandal closed to 18, the cumulative market value of stocks traded by news groups in Australia and listed in the United States has evaporated by $14 billion. In addition, Murdoch's media landscape in the UK is likely to face mandatory splitting under the new regulations, and Murdoch's 39% stake in UK Sky Broadcasting may be forced to sell. ”

A red-walled exterior villa in New York with elegant and luxurious interiors with "curved stairs” and "glittering” TV in a fully white living room is showing news from NBC TV, which is very rare for the Murdochs who own Fox TV.

Rupert Murdoch looked at himself in the cloak mirror with a slight faint face, listening to the TV report behind him, leaning slightly back on his chin, leaving him with a worried and angry Vindi Murdoch to tidy his neck tie.

A thousand miles of embankment, crashing into an ant cave. A British tabloid eavesdropping scandal continued to ferment, forcing Murdoch to face the biggest crisis of his amazing business career and unprecedented shocks to British politics.

In less than three weeks, his global media empire suffered serious damage to its global business reputation and interests as a result of an initially obscure 'buying news' scandal.

Especially when S&P downgraded the news group four days ago, it undoubtedly exacerbated the loss in the storm, thinking of that handsome young face, Murdoch's face became more gloomy and his eyes flashed harshly, but after a flash, he sighed slightly.

Looking back on that year, in 1968, when he bought most of the shares of World News for £34 million, eight years later he bought Sun and made it into a daily edition of World News, in February 1981 he bought the Times and the Sunday Times again with shocking results.

Until today, in the UK, news groups have grown to an alarming extent, with 40 per cent of newspapers held by them and 6 newspapers distributed 25 million copies a day.

After conquering mainland Australia and Great Britain, he turned to the United States, acquired The New York Post at the end of 1976, bought The Herald American in 1982, and renamed it The Boston Herald. In 1985, America's 20th Century Fox was in trouble, and he did not hesitate to form Fox TV.

More recently, in 2007, his news group underwent the Dow Jones Group and the Wall Street Journal for a total of $5.16 billion per share.

It can be said that he was at the top of his career at that time, when national media around the world called him the "media geek” and "Napoleon of the media industry”.

News groups affected almost every election in the UK, and the Conservative and Labour parties were keen on him.

In British politics for the past 20 years, any politician who hopes to become prime minister dares not offend him, Murdoch. From former British prime minister Major, Blair, Brown, to Cameron, who is running for prime minister, Murdoch needs to have a good relationship.

Perhaps, however, it was myself who actually benefited from politics this time. This time, the eavesdropping scandal was "out of control", on the one hand, at the instigation of that bastard Andy, and on the other hand, because the eavesdropping incident did touch the moral bottom line of the public, and on the other hand, not so much for so many years, the monopoly of news groups has indeed hampered the political, business and media interests of both England and the United States, and YU borrowed the eavesdropping scandal to bring down its media empire.

It was debated whether the Murdoch Empire had collapsed as a result of the sharp fall in the price of News Group shares, the sharp contraction in market value and the possible forced sale of shares in Sky Television, which had been possessed by madness outside.

But some of them really seem to have forgotten, and underestimated the energy of his nearly 80 years old man.

No entrepreneur is a smooth sailor, makes mistakes and fails and is the best note on the road to success in the end!

No matter how intelligent and capable a person may be, no matter how heavily weighted he may be, he or she will eventually encounter a sudden catastrophe whose unprecedented nature compels him or her to turn to himself or herself to obtain answers from inner enlightenment and reflection and to make independent judgements. The source of the crisis may be mistakes made by the leaders themselves, environmental factors beyond human control, or a combination of both.

Murdoch looked down and worried about his face, slapping the attacker at the British hearing, another lightning velocity and trick, snapping a plate filled with shaving liquid foam back into the attacker's face, protecting his wife before rushing, recalling the matter, he was also a happy old man, but in a darkness, he received a rare glory and praise for his wife Wendy's outstanding performance.

Even praise Wendy's words killed like the tide. Wendy's praise overwhelmed or even drowned the news group scandal, causing a slight recovery in sharp stock prices.

It also gave the old man the sentiment to have a wife so desperate.

“Don't worry, everything's going to be all right. The wind won't break me. You know, every great leader is going to have a dark time somewhere in his life.” Murdoch gently took his wife into his arms and patted her back lightly, reassuring him, although he was well aware that countless enemies were now trying to use this eavesdropping scandal to crush her. Once friendly politicians are now running around like frightened rabbits to defend themselves.

But don't forget, he's Murdoch, the Napoleon of the media where no private group has been able to have such broad political influence as Murdoch's press group since the downfall of the East Indian company.

To be honest, if you were a normal person, you'd have soft legs in the face of this kind of pressure. Murdoch had not panicked, and while he had been ostensibly exhausted from the accusations and opinions of Britain and the United States for some time, privately he had first convinced William Rhodes, the largest creditor of the press group, Citibank, that he could reorganize the press group at all costs. This was followed by a lengthy consultation process, which eventually led the press group out of the way.

Subsequently, after lengthy consultations, attempts were made to persuade all banks to stay and continue lending. It is also true that some banks are beginning to believe that supporting him may offer better prospects. You know, in the past, it was simply impossible, and Murdoch rarely negotiated directly with the bank, usually leaving it to his CFO. But this time, Murdoch himself was on the front line.

To regain his right of initiative, he has ordered the repurchase of more than £3 billion in shares, and the outside world has claimed to be a "pleasure” investor. News groups are still very well funded, with about $12 billion in cash, intended to buy the remaining shares of SkyTV, enough to sustain the disaster.

In order to preserve his media empire, and just in case, Murdoch even sold a large number of valuable assets to raise sufficient funds to prevent a complete collapse of news groups.

“Honey, after you meet him, you need to talk calmly, and in any case, stop him from continuing to be a Sky News Group, which is by far the biggest variable.” Wendy Murdoch still persuaded with a hint of concern that she was very worried that her husband would quarrel again after meeting Andy Smith, the author of this near breakdown of the news group.

Honestly, no one ever thought that just because of a small thing, it would eventually end up in this situation, she also knew that even if the matter was finally settled, the relationship between the two families has entered into hostility, and since then, disputes and clandestine wars will not stop sleeping!

“ ”Murdoch frowned sharply and sighed in the end. Of course he didn't want to bow his head to the bastard Andy Smith. Unfortunately, the situation was stronger than the others. In the face of the wave in the financial market, he kept killing the little bastard in the news group stock market, he could only admit to losing.

True kings don't care about losing a moment. The two sides' revenge is settled. Come to the long side of Japan, let's see!

“Rest assured, after all, the cause of this is the New York Post, hey, no one thought it would be like this today, as long as it's not too much, this time I will lose! ”