Alert to Telegraph Towers: Murdoch’s in the building. No, not Telegraph Media Group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan but the other one – Rupert Murdoch.
Telegraph staff almost choked on their coffee on Monday morning after MacLennan was seen chatting to none other than rival and News UK proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Tongues have been wagging over the unusual “parade” through the newsroom, piquing the interest of staff already worried the Barclay brothers may be looking to sell off the newspapers.
Murdoch is not likely to be a buyer, and certainly wouldn’t effectively announce it with a friendly walk around Telegraph Towers, so what was the purpose of the visit? A quick chat over newspaper sales (News UK prints the Telegraph)? Monkey figures it unlikely that it was to congratulate Telegraph owners David and Frederick climbing a spot in Murdoch’s Sunday Times Rich List with a fortune of £7bn. A quick pre-Brexit vote strategy meeting?
