any excuse will do

[threeplusfire]

Rupert Murdoch, the veteran media mogul, on Friday stamped his authority on Europe's leading pay TV company by facing down rebel shareholders at British Sky Broadcasting.

The 72-year-old BSkyB chairman dismissed criticism, cajoled support and won every resolution necessary to appoint his son James, 30, as chief executive of Britain's 18th largest company.

Interesting news. I picture the Murdochs as a blood letting family, new money in the tradition of the Carnegies and just as demented as the Vanderbilts with their secrets. I used to read a lot about Old Money Families, and the New Money that came along to upset parts of their world. Few of the monolithic coporations in our day are run by families, which is sometimes a pity. It makes for such great reading.

In more mundane news, they fed us turkey at work tonight and now we are all sleepy. I am training on the use of the new timeclock system set to go live next month and not a damn person in the office knows what the hell is going on with it. I think I want to go home, put on the pajamas and write bloodthirsty epics about ruling families. If I lived anywhere with a nightlife work speaking about, I would go out in my velvet boots and raise hell. But I am a bit lazy.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I just realized James Murdoch is _younger_ than me.
That is soooooo distressing.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

This makes me wonder what life as, say, a third-generation Rockefeller must have been like. Near limitless money, and power, and arrogance- and never, ever, a moment where you were not part of something close to a national myth.