P A G E 0 N E / M E D I A THE MURDOCHS PLAY GAME 0 ド THRONES The purchase of Sky shows that James Murdoch iS ready tO seize control of his dad's empire career prospects ofJames, the world's most inev- IN DECEMBER, Rupert Murdoch's 21St Century Fox announced it would buy the 61 percent 0f itable media mogul, but also illustrates his brand British satellite television company Sky that it of moguldom. does not already own for almost $ 15 billion. This As the media world and its moguls are sub- sumed by anonymous telecoms and billion-user consolidation Of one Of the biggest media com- panies in Europe is part Ofthe megamerger trend digital platforms, James, in classic mogul mode, is trymg t0 make his family's $ 52 billion company sweeping the industry (AT&T recently agreed t0 uniquely his.While it is hard t0 find any immedi- buy Time Warner), but it is also a particularly per- ate logic for the Sky deal—it's a satellite television sonal spin on empire bullding. company an incre asingly ove r-the-top world ln the spnng of 2008 , in his offce at com- and a distribytion company when content is the pany headquarters ⅲ London, James Murdoch, Rupert s second son and now the CEO 0f 21St value play—it is clearly, forJames, the white whale in the Murdoch legacy, and an integral part of Century FOX, listed for me, not without some humor, his three hopes for the company his fam- what he sees as his destiny as a mogul ・ Rupert's big-bet launch of Sky in 1989 brought ily controlled: ( 1 ) the retirement of his father; ( 2 ) the ouster 0f FOX News chief Roger Ailes, a long- his companyto the edge ofbankruptcy. lnthe 1990 time ne me sis ofJames and his siblings; and ( 3 ) the forced merger with British Sky Broadcasting, the Murdochs lost the 61 percent that, a generation complete control 0fSky (then called BSkyB). later, they are now trying tO re cover. James s SIS- So far, the ledger is looking pretty good for the ter EIisabeth went to work for Sky in 1996 as her 44-year-01d scion: His father may not be retired, father's eyes and ears; ln 2000 , denied control, but he's taking more Of a backseat tO James and she left in a rift with her father that has never fully his brother, Lachlan, the company's other top executive. The abominated Aile s was pushed out healed. ln 2003 , determined to install James, then this past summer. And now, after the company s 30 , as CEO 0f Sky, a theoretically independent 2010 bid for Sky was blocked by the British gov- company, his father had t0 call in every favor and strong-arm every possible ally in London's finan- ernment over the multiyear scandal involving phone hacking by Murdoch's British reporte rs, Sky cialcommunity t0 getJames the j0b. Then, when BY is again within re ach—alb eit for almost $ 3 billion his father needed James tO run his British newspa- MICHAELWOLFF more than in 2010. The deal not only advances the pers, James resisted taking what he saw as a lesser 当 @MichaeIWoIffNYC NEWSWEEK 16 01 / 13 / 2017

job and bargained with his old man t0 have him buy up the rest 0f Sky, so James could run both. That ambition, in the view Of some, is the reason James authorized payments tO hacking victims: SO that their allegations would not interfere with the Sky deal. But when this cover-up was revealed, the deal was scotched, and James, fearing prosecutlon, returned tO the U. S. —discredited, it seemed, and washed up. His climb back to the top has been swift and surprising, astute and ruthless. Against his father's wishes, James pushed for the dismemberment 0f his father's company— splitting the newspapers from the entertain- ment company in 2013. That shifted his father's attention away from television—James S arena¯ tO the newspapers, Dad's first love, and also freed 21St Century Fox from the regulatory hur- dles against news monopolies in the U. K. that had hindered the initial Sky bid. James is also said tO have been behind the decision tO end his father's 2014 bid for Time Warner—a deal pushed by his executive rival in the company, Chase Carey, that would have cemented Car- ey s position and used funds otherwise avail- able for a Sky acquisition. (21St Century Fox bid $ 85 a share for Time Warner—now AT&T has agreed t0 buy Time Warner for $ 108 a share. ) Then, 111 2015 , overcoming masslve opposl- tion from the company S top executives, whO had carefully keptJames from any direct man- agement role,James convinced his father tO ele- vate both himself and his brother to the top 沁 b ・ This accomplished one 0fhis father's key goals: bringing his oldest son, Lachlan—wh0, crossed by Murdoch executives, had retreated from the family business almost a decade before—back into the company. But James grabbed the CEO title and let it be known, t0 his father's chagrin, that he was the first among equals, which few ever doubted. James iS alSO said tO have been a matchmaker in his father's romance with Jerry Hall and their marriage this past spring, further distracting the 85-year-old from day-to-day management. ThiS summer, when hiS father was vacationing with his new wife, James moved against the P A G E 0 N E / M E D I A bugaboo Ailes. Ailes was long protected by the elder Murdoch' and his affronts tO the sons were stuffofcompany legend. He had, with then-Chief Operating Off1- cer peter Chernin, helped force Lachlan from the company 2005. AS FOX News grew ever more profitable—with profits in Ailes's last year up t0 $ 1.5 billion—Rupert became even more unwill- ing tO interfere with or moderate the network's right-wing views , which had be come incre asingly embarrassing t0 the Murdoch children.When the sons were appointed t0 the top j0b' Ailes publicly balked, then demanded and got a direct report- ing line tO Rupert. Ailes's implicit support 0f Donald Trump in the presidentialcampaign and the open disdain the Murdoch boys showed for Trump led t0 a growing alliance between James and Fox star anchor Megyn Kelly during her pub- lic contretemps with Trump. (FOX insiders say it also led t0 a $ 25 million offer for her t0 stay at the network—$5 million more than the $ 20 million Fox is paying its ratings leader, Bill O'ReillY' the highest salary in television news. ) When Ailes was accused ofsexual harassment in July by fired anchor Gretchen Carlson, James, with his father out Of the country, hired an outside law firm tO conduct a speedy investigation, leaked its allega- tions tO anti-Ailes reporters and enlisted Kelly as AILES WAS GONE IN O WEEKS, AN IMPRESSI TESTAMENT TO JAMES'S SON-OF-A-BITCH MET LE. a star witness against Ailes. Ailes was gone in tWO weeks, an impressive testament tO James S son- of-a-bitch mettle. The real prize here was not getting rid ofAiles but gaimng control Of FOX, which James envi- SIOIIS, in a politically cleaned-up verslon, as the basis Of an international news organization car- ried on the Sky platform. N0t incidentally, the Sky deal, which most observers believe will be approved by British regulators, means fully a third 0f 21St Century FOX'S assets will be James Murdoch territory, an important advantage when he reaches the ulti- mate face-offwith his siblings for control ofthe entlre emplre. The Sky deal is an old-fashioned mogul moment: scores settled, lOSt prizes won, land and power grabbed. ロ NEWS ・ WEEK 18 01 / 13 / 2017

BLUE MAN GROUP: Rupert Murdoch with his sons LachIan, left, and James, right, ⅲ London. 」 ames's climb back to the top Of his father's media company was SWift, surpris- ing and ruthless. NEWSWEEK 17 01 / 13 / 2017

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2 0 1 7 A C U LT U R A L G U ー D E 10 PAGES OF CINEMA, TELEVISION, FOOD, MUSIC, BOOKS, SPORT, TRAVEL, ART AND DESIGN TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2017 ・をを第 CINEMA A Big Year 応 r … Chrrstopher N01an THE FEVERED anticipation German plane solely in order that surrounds the release Of tO crash it. any new Christopher N01an If movies are, as welles once said, the "biggest movie—the secrecy! the leaks!—is almost as delicious electnc train set any boy eve r had," then N01an is standing as ル 4 なん g a new Christo- pher NOlan mOV1e. in the middle of it, we anng the dnver's hat. The 46-year- ln late 2015 , reports began tO surface that he and his old director is at roughly the brother Jonathan had been same high point in hiS career spotted scouting locations as Stephen Spielbe rg when he made S 襯ビバ廱立 and northern France for a film based on Operation James Cameron When he Dynamo. This was the Brit- made T 耘 4 ⅲ c. D リれたかた marks ish military effort that saved the first foray into the histor- the lives 0f 330 , 000 Allied ical record from a filmmaker soldiers WhO were evacuated whose unbroken string ofhits, from the French town of 仕 omn イの 7 肥〃知 tO 万ル 2 0 〃 , V1a Dunkirk, an event that Win- The Da 液 K れら have turned ston Churchill later called a him into his own blockbuster miracle ofdeliverance. brand with a devoted fan Slowly, news leaked of following—and a history of a cast that included Tom paymg the price for it at the starts with the sound Of a tick- Yet despite earnlng a Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken- Oscars. After ー〃 c ビ 2 0 〃 was reported $ 20 million salary ing clock and a sh0t 0f a wave shut out in 201 も such was the neth Branagh, Mark Rylance for the film, along with a 20 foaming up a beach. The tick- and One Direction member online furor that the next year percent take 0f the profits, ing gets faster; troops appear' the academy widened its best first as distant specks on the Harry StyIes. Then came the director is shouldering a reports that NOlan was film- picture net tO include a POSSI- certain amount Of risk. can horizon, then crowded ontO ing on a real-life naval ship, ble 10 moues, ⅲ the hopes of he wring box-offce success a stone harbor wall. The tick- a French T47 class destroyer c atching the odd blockbuste r from a historic al rout? ing gets faster. The whining brought in from Brittany, and hit. D Ⅷた減 could well be TO judge by an early trailer, sound of a bomber overhead had spent $ 5 million buying a 2017 ' s big fish. if anyone can, it's NOlan. lt draws the men S gazes up, one NEWSWEEK 54 01 / 13 / 2017

ofAmerica s march tO military supremacy in the shrewd about seizing China'.s fate by the throat through the Taiwan question," responded Bei- Pacific, including updates on 10Ca1 resistance tO し S. bases.While it offers a salutary alternative Jing 's state -run G ん / Times newspaper, a mouth- tO the Often frantic media reports about China's piece for hard-right nationalists. "However, the militarization Of islets in the South China Sea, truth is this inexpenenced president- ele ct prob a- bly has no knowledge ofwhat he's talking about ・ " it only vaguely recognizes that Beijing may be overreaching. NOW the "unthinkable," a military If Trump tries tO change Taiwan's status, it said, clash between the two, has suddenly became China might well "offer support, even military all t00 thinkable—even inevitable, in some cir- assistance tO U. S. foes. cles. When Trump triggered Beijing s wrath On December 16 , BeiJing announced it was car- by taking a telephone call from Taiwan s pro- rymg out its first- ever live -fire drills with an alr- independence leader in early December—threat- craft carner and fighters in waters close tO Korea. ening four decades 0f diplomatic stability—the lt also said it had installed we 叩 ons on disputed south China Sea islands that it could use as a tWO countries inched closer tO the type Of inci- "slingshot ” tO repel threats. Then, in open waters, dent that could lead tO a dangerous string Of tit- for-tat reprisals. Trump's further disparagement it seized a し S. Navy drone, which it later returned. of China in the following days only ratcheted up Trump s fans in Wa shington s right-wing think tanks have scoffed at Beijing's threats and the potential for a face-saving showdown. cheered what they saw as an overdue punch in the face" tO China, as a soon- to-be-retired intelligence OffIcer put it tO a N どルルた reporter at a December hOli- day party. IfChina responded militarily, a Heritage Foundation Offcial said, could cream them. pilger might agree."T0day," he notes in hiS film'S opening 1 れ 01 れ ent も more than 400 American military bases encircle China With missiles, bombers, warships and, above all, nuclear weap- ons. From Australia north through the pacific tO Japan, Korea and across Eurasia t0 Afghanistan and lndia, the bases form, as one U. S. strategist puts it, the perfect noose. The view from China is threatening. "lf you stood on the tallest building in Beijing and 100ked out on the Pacific Ocean,' James Bradley, author 0f The C ん〃 4 M ツ ag The Hidden H な知ワ 3 A 襯 r な 4 〃 D な 4 比 r ⅲ A 豆 4 , tells Pilger, you'd see American warships, you d see Guam iS about tO sink because there are SO many missiles pointed at China. You'd 100k up at Korea and see Ameri- can armaments pointing at China, you d see Japan, which is basically … a glove over the American fist. I think if I was Chinese l'd have... t0 worry about Amer- ican aggressiveness. " And prepare for war itself. Over the past decade, China has poured untold billions 0f dollars into developing so-called carrier killer missiles and air defenses. The problem with The Coming Ⅳ 0 〃 C ん 4 is that it's not SO much about a future conflict as it is a dramatic rehash N E W 5 W E E K 14 01 / 13 / 2 017

NEARLY four decades before Layla Richards was born, another baby girl made history ⅲ Britain. ln July 1978 , Louise Brown was born by Cae- sarean section tO very eager parents. There was nothing particularly unusual about the birth 0f this healthy, 5-pound, 12-ounce baby—and yet her arrival into the world helpe d two British sci- entists Win a Nobel Prize. The reason: Lotuse was conceived ⅲ a petri dish, the world's first baby created through the process Of in vitro fertiliza- tion (IVF). Back then, Louise was called the first test-tube baby," an indication 0fhow bizarre the now-standard procedure was considered at the time. ln 1981 , T んど N ビル物ⅸ石襯お wrote that the procedure was considered equivalent tO abortion in the eyes ofsome opponents. Lou1se s lmmaculate-lab conception is part Of the U. K. 's long history ofgroundbre aking biote ch. 'ln a country nervous about genetically G E N E G E N S fying human life in a lab. The resulting report, published in 1987 , led t0 a nationwide consensus on the obvious social benefits ofIVF. The report also led to the establishment 0fthe Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the first independent legislative body in the world tO regulate human embryo research and IVF treatment. lt is overseen by an inde- pendent board rather than government minis- ters, but is sponsored by the British Department of Health, whose head appoints the board. Members include geneticists, philosophers, former CiVil servants and finance and business professionals. The chairwoman, Sally Cheshire, reports directly t0 the U. K. 's minister for health. The HFEA is a symbol of Britain s commitment tO innovation lll medical science—umque in itS progressive nature, compared tO Other advanced nations like the U. S. and Germany, where reli- gion and politics often hold back research. The HFEA recently granted two controversial licenses: ln February 2015 , the British govern- ment approved a pioneermg gene technology tO prevent potentially fatal mitochondrial disease from passing from mother t0 child. By placing modified crops, we are making the foolhardy move t0 genetically modified babies. ” a donor's healthy genes in an IVF embryo, the researchers say the resulting baby could avoid severe symptoms such as deafness, muscle withering, liver or kidney failure and brain damage. But crit1CS worry that when these babies pass on the That legacy began at the University 0fCambridge 1953 , whe n doctoral stude nts Francis Crick and James Watson cracked DNA's double-helix structure, forever reshaping our understanding of human biology. The simple two-strand con- figuration—drawn by hand by Crick's wife Odile in their original Na paper—gave rise tO the entire field of modern molecular biology, and it spawned cutting-edge techniques from cloning tO gene editing. British researchers have piO- neere d clinical techniques in reproductive biOl- ogy, including IVF, the discovery 0f embryonic stem cells in mice ( 1981 ) and the first cloning ofa mammal, D011y the sheep ( 1996 ). With each of these milestones, scientists around the world faced a moral dilemma con- cerning the definition ofhuman life.When does a ball ofcells become a fetus? Does an artificially created life form have rights? Should physical impairments like deafness be culled from our population? After Louise Brown's birth the Brit- iSh government convened an ethiCS committee, headed by philosopher Mary Warnock, t0 inves- tigate the implications Of creating and modi- NEWSWEEK 31 01 / 13 / 2017 new genetic code t0 their children, grandchil- dren and every subsequent generation, there will be as-yet-unknown consequences. Despite vocal opposition from a smattering Of members 0f Parliament, as well as challenges from the Church of England and the Cath01ic clergy, the British House 0f Commons voted by an overwhelming maJority tO allow this mitO- chondrial donation. Although the process has the U. K. govern- ment's stamp Of approval, it is not approved as safe and effective by the U. S. or Chinese authori- tie s. ln a reuew Of the technology e arlie r this ye ar, the U. S. F00d and Drug Administrafion warned that the evidence does not yet support the safe use ofmitochondrialtransfer in humans. ln February 2016 , geneticist Kathy Niakan Of the U.K. 's Francis Crick lnstitute became the first scientist in the world tO receive a license tO edit healthy human embryos for research. (The embryos cannot be implanted intO a human. ) Her goal is tO better understand the process Of early human development, not redesign babies. Even SO, S01 れ e lawmakers were determined tO

PATRIOT GAMES: An American soldier takes part in a vast military exercise that some say was intended as a message to China. 十 while Chinese President Xi Jinping has plenty Of power in the P01itburo tO deal with Trump on several contentious matters, starting with trade, he has none on Taiwan s status, analysts firmly believe. Beijing's bedrock policy on Taiwan, reit- erated for decades in offlcial documents and pri- vate conversations With foreign visitors, iS that the island has been a renegade provmce ever Slnce U. S. -backed nationalist forces retreated there in 1949 ハ Mith the triumph of its revolution m 1950 , the Chinese Communist Party ended more than a century Of repeated humiliations at the hands of foreign invaders—except for breakaway Taiwan. Xi will not risk being seen as な 0 代” on Taiwan, Wang Dong, a professor Of international rela- tions at Peking University, tells Ⅳビル引 . If the upcoming Trump administration pursues policies that tramp on China's core lnterests—soverelgnty and territorial integnty—then they shouldn't expect anything short 0fa forceful response. Admiral Harry Harris, America's top military commander in the Pacific, has made increas- ingly bellicose comments on China's moves in the South China Sea. After challenging China with a so-called freedom-of-navigation exer- cise that dispatched a し S. guided missile ship through Chinese-claimed waters last year, he declared, "You will see more of these. ” But ana- lysts have noted that Harris s exercises have been something less than advertised: The ships actually passed through the Chinese-claimed waters under conditions Of 'finnocent passage, with their aggressive radar turned 0 John Bolton, a possible pick for deputy secre- tary 0f state, said the new U. S. president might well push back China's effort "to make the South China Sea into a Chinese province. A first step could be tO dispatch a more muscular Navy patrol through the disputed waters with its war-fighting radar on. That would "be a seri- ous provocation," Wang tells N ビルルた , "and China will definitely respond forcefully, which, Of course, will then greatly increase the risk of military standoffor even confrontation. One longtime China watcher thinks Xi will face pressure from his hawks tO take more radical actlon, perhaps even some sort Of pre-emptlve move on Taiwan, says Bill Bishop, editor Of the influential Sinocism newsletter. I have not heard anything specific, but [that] would be a logical view 0f some [in Beijing], especially if they are convinced that Trump will end the strategic ambi- gulty over whether the し S. will defend Taiwan, Bishop tells N ビルた by email. "Given the polit- ical and social changes/trends ⅲ Taiwan,' he says, peaceful reunification is a fantasy, and will only become more SO as time passes. lfl were a hawk, I would certainly argue that there's no time like the last few weeks of an Obama administra- tion tO settle it once and for all. There's little chance of that, other China watchers say. BeiJing's best options are financial, not military. China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, warned on December 10 that Trump was risking 20 , 000 American jobs and $ 10 billion in Chinese investments "should things be handled poorly. Then, in a possible preview days later, Beijing announced it was lnvestigating GM'S jOint ven- ture with Shanghai-based SAIC br possible antitrust violations—and could even impose a huge fine,' according t0 NBC. A large-scale military clash between the U. S. in China is not JLISt improbable but insane, says Eric Li, a prominent political scientlst and ven- ture capitalist in Shanghai. "There never have been tWO countries more interdependent on "THIS INEXPERIENCED PRESIDENT-ELECT PROBABLY HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. ” each other," he tells pilger. "china is the largest trading nation in the world and in history. NOt only that; they are "linked to the entire world. " AII that "speak[slto peace," he says. lfwar comes, pilger won't be surprised, even if he thinks it will be Washington's fault. But he doe s offer a hopeful note. "We don't have t0 accept the word 0f those who conjure up threats and false enemies that Justify the business and profit Of war," he says as the film ends. AII we have to do is recognize there iS another superpower. The Obama administration seems to get that, but will Trump As one of his China advisers told a radio audience last week, "IfChina doesn t like it, screw em. ”ロ P A G E 0 N E / C H 工 N A NEWSWEEK 15 01 / 13 / 2017