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Murdoch is at the center of a journalistic empire that includes close to 100 newspapers and magazines in australia, and he clearly is in the united states to stay. >> rupert murdoch is emerging already by the 1980s as the biggest newspaper baron the world has ever known. hes part of the rise of the 80s culture in new york. buildings were shooting up kind of all across the city. wall street boomed. and murdoch sees this, this growing obsession, this growing interest in money and celebrity. and th...

>> whats happening in the room where celebrity is doing cocaine with stripper wife. >> can you believe this starlet, she is cheating on her husband. >> and it wasnt just about who is sleeping with who, the expression court of power was used, it was who is doing what at what company. [music] >> page 6 became an enormous source of murdochs power. >> page 6, you could undermine those who had been inconvenient or opposed you, and you can help build up the same just because it made a good copy of a y...

>> but the reagan administration deliverance. [music] >> second hes not a citizen. >> federal regulations, of course, prohibit noncitizens from owning more than 20 percent of a television station.>> citizenship, that takes months. murdoch gets it in weeks. the reagan administration is giving murdoch everything he needs to start a fourth national network. [music] >> its a huge financial risk. and rupert is going to need to squeeze every penny he can out of his existing newspapers to pull it off. ...

>> multimillionaire rupert murdoch is at the center of a journalistic empire that includes close to 100 newspapers and magazines in australia, and he clearly is in the united states to stay. >> rupert murdoch is emerging already by the 1980s as the biggest newspaper barren the world has ever known. [music] >> he is part of the rise of the 80s culturing new york. buildings were shooting up kind of all across the city. wall street boomed.and murdoch sees this, this growing obsession, this growing ...

Lives would be shaped by pursuit of one thing. >> rupert had laid out that he wants one of his children to succeed him, he doesnt say when he doesnt say who and he doesnt say how. that its going to have to be fought out between them. [music] >> this one question, who would be the one tosucceed him , only intensifies as they watched his empire grow and grow and grow. [music] >> this cnn original series, the murdochs, empire of influence, is brought to you by sling, the tpe love for a price you wi...

Of us got on that jet at midnight and plead berlin. >> a current affair was ruperts baby. to the point where i believe rupert wrote a check out of his own checking account every single week for the show. >> this show was rampant energy. >> rupert liked it because it was cheeky. >> fantasy. >> it was edging. it was a tabloid show. he said there is a place for a show like this and people will gravitate to it. [music] >> so, we end up in berlin. [music] [cheering]

>> at the same time, people have always said to me that rupert sees elizabeth as the child most like him. [music] >> when people would say to him that he favors the oldest son, laughlin, murdoch would say, oh, i love all my children. >> tell us the best thing about your dad. >> um, lets see, um, well, he always likes to go camping with us. >> does he spend a lot of time with you? >> yes. >> rupert and locklin both share a love of newspapers, they both share a love of australia. >> when they were...

0 post of rupert murdoch becomes a whole new animal. >> if i didnt know what sensationalism was, i would soon find out. [music] >> as usual, we were drinking one night. the producers, the reporters, and me. we always gathered.>> the first concrete block was removed from east german workers, >> then we here at the berlin wall is coming down. what? weve got to go. what? a current affair has got to go to the war, oh yeah. so, we made a few calls and we commandeered the gulfstream jet.and about eigh...