As the media baron prepares to celebrate his 90th birthday next week, the question of what happens to the Murdoch media dynasty still seems vexed as ever.
For Rupert Murdoch, who turns 90 on March 11, the succession question somehow still remains open. David Rowe
Alex Barker, Anna Nicolaou and James Fontanella-Khan
By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon.
The media mogul scribbled the moment of his demise on a piece of paper in 2001 and flourished it during an interview taking stock of a five-decade career, which had turned a ho-hum Adelaide newspaper inherited from his father, Sir Keith Murdoch, into a global business empire, courted and feared by politicians across the English-speaking world.
