Maybe Aaron Sorkin should have written the Succession script…it might have made more sense!

So…I finally got round to watching Succession, to see what it was all about and why so many people seemed to like it. Basing it on the Murdochs is a bit of a stretch, but a great idea if the show’s aim was to make mega-bucks and gain maximum attention. A great PR exercise.

The Roy family is not the one to invite to a dinner party. They are so totally obsessed with themselves and I doubt they know what is going on in the (real) world.

They dont do a skerric of work and I am yet to hear any conversations based on media at all – unless they are considering a takeover bid. No subject matter is discussed, and the reason their empire exists is non-existent.

The Roy children – Shiv, Ronan and Keenan are not family friendly. Sure Keenan has children, but hardly engages with them. The other two self-important ones, Shiv and Ronan, are too pre-occupied with themselves to breed.

The father, Logan Roy, doesn’t know what he is doing and doesn’t understand why his children can’t cope and why things aren’t going well. He tells the kids ‘you are not serious people’. Why does the agent provocateur mirror the image?

Succession is a nightmare!

At least with the Murdochs there is structure, business being done, some of it not pretty.

Media companies can be in love with themselves. They dish up content they expect readers to pay for, because they see their message as important for the world to continue to go round in circles. As they make money.

Maybe, just maybe, Eric Beecher’s new book, The Men Who Killed the News, can confirm or deny the above.

-Doug Green