“Wait a Minute, Succession Is Real!”: CNN’s Long-Awaited Murdoch Saga Is Finally Getting Its Network Debut

On the afternoon of Thursday, April 21, Jim Rutenberg’s voice beamed across Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a holy grail of media promotion, where he was appearing to discuss The Murdochs: Empire of Influence. The ambitious documentary series, based on Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler’s 2019 New York Times Magazine opus about the Murdoch family, had just debuted on CNN+, a brand-new streaming service created by the original 24-hour cable news network. But there was a problem, and it was an awkward one—that same day, CNN’s new bosses at Warner Bros. Discovery announced that CNN+ would shut down on April 30,… Read Full Article