Elisabeth Murdoch turns on her father and brother in MacTaggart lecture

[Newsjock]

Source: The Guardian

Tensions within the world's most powerful media family were dramatically laid bare on Thursday when Elisabeth Murdoch set out her own vision of media leadership, emphasising humanity over profit and criticising her father's News Corporation for operating with an absence of values.

... Speaking in public for the first time about the phone-hacking affair, which prompted her to fall out with her brother a year ago, Elisabeth Murdoch said that News Corp had to ask "significant and difficult questions about how some behaviours fell so far short of its values" in the wake of what happened.

She said the lesson from the affair was that any organisation needed to "discuss, affirm and institutionalise a rigorous set of values based on an explicit statement of purpose" – in contrast to News Corp's traditional mode of governance based on executives second-guessing what Rupert would do.

The cri de coeur from the 44-year-old, who runs Shine Television, the News Corp-owned maker of programmes such as Masterchef and Merlin, will be interpreted as a bid for power at her father's company – although her friends insisted she had no desire to lead the company her father built, which spans from Fox News in the US to the Sun in Britain.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/23/elisabeth-murdoch-mactaggart-lecture

[beac]

1. Brava. Ms. Murdoch!

It must be AWFUL to know your father and brother are such scum. Good for her for speaking out against them.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Could be a Murdoch family ploy to make her look innocent so they can keep it in the family.

[DURHAM D]

4. That was my first thought.

[southernyankeebelle]

8. No I don't think so. As soon as all the shit hit the fan she was already screaming.

[Blue Owl]

3. Restore whatever dignity is left for the name "Murdoch"

n/t

[progressivebydesign]

5. I interviewed with her for a job years ago when she and her husband bought a tv station...

they sold it rather quickly. She seemed actually so down to earth, considering her father's wealth. And a life of privilege. Glad that's she's out from under the dark shadow.

[FreeBC]

6. Talk is cheap.

She is just saying what everyone else knows and she doesn't go nearly far enough.

Her family's media empire is the source of much death, pain and suffering around the world, and she says NewsCorp fell "short of it's values"? What values? The only values they have are evil and they are not falling short at all.

Talk is cheap. She's in the position to do something about it. She should get back to us when Fox News goes off the air.

[xtraxritical]

7. They "value" whatever is the most profitable.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. "fell so far short of its values" ... uh huh.

Sounds like she's in denial about the real 'values' of NewsCorp.

[nanabugg]

10. Told you women should not have been given the vote! Women should just shut up!!!