Let them eat news

22 September 2017 By Liam Proud Follow @liamwardproud

The play “Ink” dramatises the tycoon’s populist assault on Britain’s cloistered media after buying the Sun in 1969. It’s a deft history of the press culture that eventually led to the phone hacking scandal. These days Rupert Murdoch’s empire is the one at risk of disruption.

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“Ink”, by James Graham, opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End on Sept. 20. It was previously shown at the Almeida Theatre in north London.

Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox in December 2016 launched a bid for the 61 percent of pay-TV company Sky it doesn’t already own at 10.75 per share, or 11.7 billion pounds.

UK Media Secretary Karen Bradley on Sept. 14 confirmed that the bid will be referred to a second regulatory review over concerns about media plurality and broadcasting standards.

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