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Ruthlessness and risk-taking built the Murdoch empire, whether that was his victory over the print unions in the early days of his ownership of the Times and Sunday Times, or his determination to create the right-wing Fox News, credited with helping get Trump elected in 2016.

His tenure at the Sunday Times came to an end following a strike by print unions that closed the paper for a year and forced the proprietor, Roy Thomson, to sell Times Newspapers to Rupert Murdoch.

Evans’ successful run at the Sunday Times was disrupted in 1977 by the nation’s print unions, who resisted the newspaper industry’s move to using electronic typesetting.

When the print unions resisted,Murdoch fired 5,500 printers.

The anachronistic entitlements won by the all-powerful print unions, the gentlemen’s agreements between the titles, their dutiful provision to the public of an edifying diet of political news; all are part of the same establishment to be razed.