In yesterday’s Crikey we quoted this par from a New York magazine profile on Lachlan Murdoch, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Be King by Steve Fishman:

Rupert, in any case, had moved on. He was no longer
interested in Anna. As if to punctuate that thought, he kicked her off
the board. “[You’re] an embarrassment to everyone else on the board,”
she recalls him saying. She formally resigned in person, walking out in
tears, escorted by Lachlan, a fellow director. “You don’t hurt people
for your own happiness,” was one of Anna’s parting thoughts.

In the same Crikey edition we quoted Australian Women’s Weekly feature writer David Leser, whose interview with Anna Murdoch was used extensively in the Fishman profile, saying:

…there is one conspicuous error in Fishman’s story as it
relates to my own article. Fishman writes that Rupert told Anna when
she was forced to resign from News Corp: “[You’re] an embarrassment to
everyone else on the board.” This is not what Rupert said to her, nor
what Anna told me. What she said was that when Rupert told her to “get
off the (News Corp) Board,” she felt (from her own perspective, not
Rupert’s) (that) … “there’s no point being there if you’re of no use
and it’s embarrassing to everyone else on the board.”

Based on David Leser’s account New York
magazine got it wrong, and we should not have run its erroneous claim.
The mistake slipped through because David Leser’s correction arrived
moments before Crikey was published. A c*ck-up, not a conspiracy.