James Murdoch has spoken out regarding his step away from the family business at News Corp. after 21st Century Fox was sold to the Walt Disney Co. in a $71.3 billion deal. In an interview with the …
. At the time of his departure, Murdoch said he was leaving “due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.”
“And I just felt increasingly uncomfortable with my position on the board having some disagreements over how certain decisions are being made. So it was actually not that hard a decision to remove myself and have a kind of cleaner slate.”“I think there’s only so much you can do if you’re not an executive, you’re on the board, you’re quite removed from a lot of the day-to-day decisions, obviously,” he said.
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