{"id":24440,"date":"2023-09-22T00:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24440"},"modified":"2023-09-22T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T01:20:14","slug":"a-mogul-named-rupert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24440","title":{"rendered":"A Mogul Named Rupert&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24444\" style=\"width:1000px\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-1-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Court Painter presents a daring series of topsy turvy portraits of A Mogul Named Rupert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it is today that the 92-year-old Murdoch blasted the media world with another tremor as he announced his unpredicted \u201cretirement\u201d from his status as chair of both of his companies, Fox and News Corp. The word retirement deserves prominent quotation marks because nowhere in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/rupert-murdoch-steps-down-fox-chairman-1235595815\/\" target=\"_blank\">Murdoch\u2019s letter announcing<\/a>&nbsp;his move to chairman emeritus does he actually use it. The letter closes with him promising to be \u201cinvolved every day\u201d as an \u201cactive member\u201d of the Fox and News Corp. companies, watching its broadcasts and reading its newspapers and books, \u201creaching out\u201d with \u201cthoughts, ideas, and advice,\u201d and visiting his various outposts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source: Politico Sept 21\/23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24445\" style=\"width:1000px\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2-300x225.jpg 300w, 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\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24449\" style=\"width:1000px\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2-copy.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2-copy-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rupert-Murdoch-2-copy-768x575.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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The word retirement deserves prominent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Mogul Named Rupert&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24440"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24462,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions\/24462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}