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>> multimillionaire rupert murdoch is at the center of a journalistic empire, and he clearly is in the united states to stay. >> rupert murdoch is emerging as the biggest newspaper baron the world has ever known. >> if i didnt know what sensationalism was, i would soon find out. >> more journalists, more publishers should be in television. >> nobody was thinking as big as rupert murdoch. >> the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. >> murdoch has become sole owner of...

>> if i didnt know what sensationalism was, i would soon find out. >> more journalists, more publishers should be in television. >> nobody was thinking as big as rupert murdoch. >> the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. >> murdoch has become sole owner of 20th century fox. >> rupert has laid out that he wants one of his children to succeed him, but he doesnt say when, who and how. its going to have to be fought out between them. >> two minutes till the official st...

>> and it becomes clear to rupert that fox news is roger ailes. >> and then in a few years, fox news is eating cnn and msnbc in the ratings. and thats where you start to see fox really gaining a toehold with conservative audiences. >> and basically, fox becomes a rocketship. >> by the late 90s, rupert murdoch owns 132 newspapers, the fox network, fox news, 12 local tv stations, and a variety of book publishers. by that point, his personal fortune stands at $3.9 billion. >> as ruperts empire grow...

Anchors in pants. we didnt wear pants. >> they wanted us to be more of a kind of a cocktail party for work. >> short skirt, long legs -- that was very important. >> roger had a vision, albeit an antiquated one of how women are supposed to look or were supposed to look. and so we became just kind of the manifestations of that image. >> he was in total command. i mean, people were afraid of him. it was a place that had he ruled with an iron hand. >> and it becomes clear to rupert that fox news is ...