It's always a danger sign when a business person is widely known by their first name alone. In the case of Rupert Murdoch, like Donald Trump, the significance is his famously hands-on style and the power of his personality. (Note by contrast that the sage of Omaha is not typically known as "Warren.") For Rupert, the news, not just editorials, in his newspapers is what he wants it to be, and not what his editors may think it is; the editors who disagree leave, and are replaced with loyalists who dedicate their careers to being exquisitely in tune with R's sensibility and are inured to translating his opinions slavishly into what is presented as fact.

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