Transcripts dumped over the weekend from the blockbuster Las Vegas trial over the future of the Murdoch family trust show HBO’s Succession was dramatising already screen-ready source material.The headline detail was that Rupert Murdoch and son Lachlan Murdoch thought News Corp global CEO Robert Thomson lacked vision. It came out in family lieutenants’ versions of events from a key meeting involving Lachlan’s adviser Siobhan McKenna. But both Rupert and Lachlan were too conflict-averse to just bone their long-time chief executive.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles