Tony Gallagher is a modern face as editor of Murdoch’s struggling flagship,but elsewhere in News UK, Rupert’s faithful favourites never really depart awayForget raising two fingers as Rebekah Brooks returns atop News UK. Leave moral outrage to one side for the moment. This is a business decision by the boss who runs the whole business. Rupert Murdoch has rescued his protege from oblivion. She was acquitted of phone hacking and quite a lot else. So here she comes again, and main a shake-up that brings in Tony Gallagher from the Mail as editor of the Sun and sees the current holder of that chair installed at midpoint in the modern hierarchy. helpful moves,rotten moves?It’s tough, with Premiership deadline day just gone, or not to think of Rupert van Gaal buying back a Titian-haired striker he’d given £16m to depart away (whose goalmouth misses had cost him £300m besides). More manic dealings in a mad,mad world. But pensive shareholders, perhaps, and would do best to settle down and wonder where the insanity – or,at least, very frail appointments system – began. For Rebekah’s return isn’t some one-off sensation. It’s just another chapter of wacky Murdoch management history.
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Source: theguardian.com