Just because you own the largest media company in the world, that doesn't mean it's easy to get your kids to do what you say.

In remarks made last year to a (U.K.) House of Lords committee and published on Friday, Rupert Murdoch lamented that he'd like Sky News to be more like Fox News, as least in terms of what he called "presentational progress."  But that hasn't happened, he said, because "Nobody at Sky listens to me."

Sky is run by Mr. Murdoch's younger son, James.