NYO - In With the Old: Rupert Installs Self at New York Post
The Media Mob - NYO: "In With the Old: Rupert Installs Self at New York Post
From tomorrow's Observer cover story on Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch:
Dynasties have their own logic, but generally they�re supposed to go to youth. The Murdoch family succession is going in the opposite direction. Now that Lachlan Murdoch has resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., a Post spokesperson has told The Observer that he will be replaced as publisher of the New York Post by its former publisher, Rupert Murdoch.
The restoration of the 74-year-old Mr. Murdoch to the vehicle into which he has thrown so much capital and passion comes after a week of the kind that the Post itself would revel in, of public family turmoil and power Parcheesi that exacted an emotional cost from his son.
Last Friday, July 29, shortly after his sudden abdication as the designated crown prince of News Corp., Lachlan Murdoch went to lunch at Da Silvano. The 33-year-old bluff and hardy publisher and News Corp. executive came in at around 1 p.m. with a group of about eight people, according to one eyewitness.
He stayed for five and a half hours.
�They started with�they all ordered Italian beers, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the best line of Peroni,� the eyewitness said. Then came multiple bottles of Lupicaia wine, and cold cuts, truffled burrata cheese, stuffed zucchini blossoms, branzino, homemade pasta with more truffles. Lachlan Murdoch�s wife, bra and swimsuit model Sarah O�Hare, stopped by, bringing their infant son, Kalan.
By the last half hour of the meal, the bare-knuckled young publisher of the New York Post was in tears. �He was like, sort of crying on an elder gentleman at the table,� the eyewitness said. �It seemed to me like a very tender moment.�"
From tomorrow's Observer cover story on Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch:
Dynasties have their own logic, but generally they�re supposed to go to youth. The Murdoch family succession is going in the opposite direction. Now that Lachlan Murdoch has resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., a Post spokesperson has told The Observer that he will be replaced as publisher of the New York Post by its former publisher, Rupert Murdoch.
The restoration of the 74-year-old Mr. Murdoch to the vehicle into which he has thrown so much capital and passion comes after a week of the kind that the Post itself would revel in, of public family turmoil and power Parcheesi that exacted an emotional cost from his son.
Last Friday, July 29, shortly after his sudden abdication as the designated crown prince of News Corp., Lachlan Murdoch went to lunch at Da Silvano. The 33-year-old bluff and hardy publisher and News Corp. executive came in at around 1 p.m. with a group of about eight people, according to one eyewitness.
He stayed for five and a half hours.
�They started with�they all ordered Italian beers, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the best line of Peroni,� the eyewitness said. Then came multiple bottles of Lupicaia wine, and cold cuts, truffled burrata cheese, stuffed zucchini blossoms, branzino, homemade pasta with more truffles. Lachlan Murdoch�s wife, bra and swimsuit model Sarah O�Hare, stopped by, bringing their infant son, Kalan.
By the last half hour of the meal, the bare-knuckled young publisher of the New York Post was in tears. �He was like, sort of crying on an elder gentleman at the table,� the eyewitness said. �It seemed to me like a very tender moment.�"
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