The David-and-Goliath legal battle between Crikey and Lachlan Murdoch is about more than brinksmanship. “He could well win,” Crikey founder Stephen Mayne tells joepompeo, “but it would be a pyrrhic victory that would generate even more blowback.”
are pursuing against the Murdochs’ most powerful American media outlet, Fox News. They’re dealing with a different sort of legal agita in their native Australia, or at least Lachlan is, setting the stage for high-stakes courtroom battles in the months to come.
There’s a lot to unpack here, and I’ll do my best to translate it all for an American audience, starting with the background. Crikey, conceived as an irreverent, left-leaning alternative to the Australian duopoly of News Corp and Fairfax Media , was founded in 2000 byvia his company Private Media. Both of them had previously worked for Rupert Murdoch–owned papers and were “appalled by his practices and media market dominance,” Mayne told me.
For a long time Crikey’s Murdoch accountability went unchallenged. But as Lachlan consolidated power atop the family business andhis immediate family from Los Angeles back to Sydney, the heat began to rise. Over the past two and a half years, Lachlan’s lawyers have dispatched four legal threats to the small but scrappy website.
From there the lawyers went back and forth with a series of sternly worded letters. Eventually, with compromise proving elusive, Crikey basically said,
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