{"id":480,"date":"2003-11-04T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T10:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/11\/nepotism_alive\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T10:27:46","slug":"nepotism_alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/nepotism_alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepotism Alive And Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night BSkyB named their new CEO &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/city\/story\/0,7497,1077372,00.html\">James Murdoch<\/a>. Wow. What a coincidence. You mean the same James Murdoch who&#8217;s son of the Chairman Rupert Murdoch? That&#8217;d be the one.<br \/>\nHowls of outrage &#8211; and rightly so &#8211; since BSkyB is only 35% owned by Murdoch. The rest of the shareholding is held by others. The group is a PLC and as such not actually within the fiefdom of a single man.<br \/>\nWhy would any of the other senior execs at BSkyB stay on in the long term? They have no future. I&#8217;d be readying my CV for the next juicy position to come up if I were them. It&#8217;s just not a smart move all around.<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s the small matter of him only being 30. Not that I&#8217;m jealous or anything &#8211; OK I am. But can he really have the experience? Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night BSkyB named their new CEO &#8211; James Murdoch. Wow. What a coincidence. You mean the same James Murdoch who&#8217;s son of the Chairman Rupert Murdoch? That&#8217;d be the one. Howls of outrage &#8211; and rightly so &#8211; since BSkyB is only 35% owned by Murdoch. The rest of the shareholding is held by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}