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Sumner Redstone: the other media baron who inspired Succession was more toxic and dysfunctional than Logan Roy

Just before the third season of the hit HBO television show Succession began, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, was asked (again) what it was about real-life media tycoons Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch that drove him to create a TV series about a fictional media family that bore some resemblances…

The Conversation

Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?

Their young audience made them the envy of the media’s old guard. But, ultimately, they couldn’t convert this into profit, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

The Guardian - UK

Fox News Ponders Major Post Tucker Carlson Primetime Shakeup: Sean Hannity Moves to 8 p.m., Laura Ingraham Out (Breathless Reports)

With its trademark siren blaring, the Drudge Report also says Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld will get primetime promotions

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Did Fox Really Fire Tucker Carlson for Crossing the 'Red Line' of Criticizing Big Pharma, as RFK Jr. Claims?

If so, the network failed to enforce the supposed rule before and after cancelling its top-rated host.

Reason

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes ordered to pay $125m back to Rupert Murdoch

Holmes and her former boyfriend, top Theranos executive Sunny Balwani, have been ordered to pay $452m in restitution

The Independent UK

Tesla Stock Leaps As Elon Musk Says He'll Remain CEO, Test Advertising

“I believe in listening to shareholders and I actually was surprised by the level of enthusiasm for advertising," Musk said.

The Street

Court rules Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals against sentence

Holmes was convicted on fraud charges over a blood-testing hoax

Evening Standard

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Elizabeth Holmes loses her latest bid to avoid prison

In another ruling issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered Elizabeth Holmes to pay $452 million in restitution to the victims of her crimes.

WEKU

Hot tip for Dutton: go harder on Labor’s weak spot of gambling reform

To really hit the ALP where it hurts, the opposition leader should push the PM to put up a pokies divestment motion at its national conference.

Crikey

Roger Ailes’s widow says Murdochs have ‘wreaked havoc’ on Fox News

Wife of former CEO forced out over sexual harassment allegations says Rupert Murdoch lacks her husband’s ‘genius’

The Guardian - US

'Succession' Finale Predictions: HBO's Biggest Show Is Veering Towards Apocalypse

It may sound ridiculous, but HBO’s prestige drama 'Succession' seems to be racing toward a near-future hellscape.

Inverse

Roger Ailes’s wife publicly attacks the Murdochs amid Tucker Carlson fallout

Elizabeth Ailes refers to Rupert Murdoch’s sons as characters from English nursery rhyme

The Independent UK

How much has Boris Johnson made in cash, gifts and benefits since resigning as PM?

Since Johnson stepped down from the head of the UK Government on September 5 last year, he has only made 17 contributions to the House of Commons

The National (Scotland)

Vice files for bankruptcy protection amid cut-price sale to consortium

Digital publisher and owner of Vice News and Vice TV was once valued at $6bn but has agreed sale for $225m

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Fox News hit with new defamation lawsuit after massive settlement

Nina Jankowicz was former executive director of government division dealing with disinformation threats to national security

Crikey

Suffer the little children…

Queensland taxpayers are paying to indemnify church bodies against child abuse claims because insurers won’t, and Clive Palmer’s company Zeph Investments plans to sue Australia for the second time — the first claim seeks $269 billion.

Salon

Tucker threatens to sue Fox for fraud

Carlson accused Fox of lying about him and leaking his private messages, linking his firing to Dominion settlement

The Independent UK

11 celebrities including Robert De Niro and Billy Joel who embraced fatherhood later in life

De Niro confirmed the birth of his seventh child in an interview published on Tuesday 9 May

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The Independent UK

The trials of Prince Harry: 1st phone hacking case to begin

Prince Harry’s legal battle against the British press faces its biggest test yet and threatens to do something he said his family long feared: put a royal on the witness stand to discuss embarrassing revelations

Axios

Scoop: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach

A letter to top Fox officials says the network broke agreements with Carlson.

Evening Standard

Ghost writers go to war over Prince Harry’s memoir Spare

J.R. Moehringer has taken a swipe at Andrew O’Hagan, who gave him a bad review

WEKU

Fox isn't in the apology business. That could cost it a ton of money

When Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch addressed investors on Tuesday, he did not apologize for the events that led to a $787 million settlement over the broadcasting of election-related falsehoods.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Reduce emissions? Fine, but we need to do much, much more than that

Grim report about carbon sequestration being vital on top of reducing emissions to save Earth scored scant media attention. That's a tragedy.

The Guardian - UK

Vice Media close to deal for sale out of bankruptcy

Rescue deal for publisher would wipe out existing shareholders, including James Murdoch

The Guardian - UK

‘Like Icarus – now everyone is burnt’: how Vice and BuzzFeed fell to earth

Era of lofty valuations for upstart youth media appears to be over, with Vice ‘heading for bankruptcy’ and BuzzFeed News shutting down

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