Bannon vs. the sons — Lachlan and James, the nest-generation leaders — will be even more intriguing. The sons tell anyone who will listen that they fancy themselves globalists who one day would like to steer Fox away from its hard-right roots and sexist, white-men’s-club reputation and reality.

They are, by temperament and ideology, the anti-Bannons. As James Murdoch wrote to friends last week in an email condemning the “racist mob” in Charlottesville: “Diverse storytellers, and stories, can make a difference, and that diversity, around the world, is a crucial strength and an animating force in my business.”…

Will Bannon form an alliance with Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation’s largest owner of television stations, with unabashedly conservative management and commentary?