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https://scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/1090053/right-field-murdochs-yes-network-move-surely-prelude-yankees
Sport/ Other Sport

Right Field: Murdoch's Yes Network move surely a prelude to Yankees takeover

What Murdoch wants, Murdoch gets so his purchase of a stake in Yes Network is simply a prelude to buying the Yankees

Rupert Murdoch

Before you judge, ask yourself one question: what would you do? You're 81 years old; your wife is 38 years younger than you. You have six children; the oldest is 54, the youngest nine. But you still have some life, damn it, and thankfully you own one of the largest media companies in the world. Up until three weeks ago you also thought of yourself as a kingmaker extraordinaire because, basically, you were.

But it came with a cost; one part of your company was responsible for, arguably, the most odious episode in recent media history through a phone-hacking scandal that gets more despicable by the day and has spawned a government inquiry in the UK. Your other media company, again, arguably the most overtly biased news organisation in your adopted country, has all kinds of egg on its face after totally missing its predictions about the current US president soon becoming the ex-US president. You're even wading into the bloodshed in the Middle East because you're undeterred in the ramifications of your global influence.