Friday, October 16, 2015
Nathan Cummings Foundation Attempts Murdoch Ouster at News Corp. Annual Meeting
The News Corp annual general meeting ended just 24 minutes after it began.
And, just before the lights went out, Rupert Murdoch offered an odd, maybe ominous, farewell.
"See you next year I hope," the 84-year-old Australian-born media mogul said.
News Corp AGMs once had a circus atmosphere, with a raucous line of activist shareholders, including America's Evelyn Davis and Australia's Stephen Mayne, queueing behind microphones to blast or praise Mr Murdoch over a few hours.
Only two shareholders stepped up to the microphone inside Manhattan's New York Institute of Technology auditorium on Wednesday.
One, Laura Shaffer Campos, of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a New York-based organisation focused on building a "socially and economically just society", failed to lead a shareholder revolt to diminish the Murdoch family's control on News Corp. . .