Named Roger News Today

sensationalism was, i would soon find out. >> more journalists should be in television. >> nobody was thinking as big as rupert murdoch. >> the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. >> 20th century fox. >> rupert has laid out he wants one of his children to succeed him but he doesnt say when, who, or how. it will have to be fought out between them. two minutes to the official start of the race. there are the boats. >> the sydney race in australia is a big deal. it ...

Day. meanwhile n1996, the murdoch empire is about to reach another peak. >> i would like to say, we have reached the moment we can firmly announce the starts of a fox news channel. >> he is announcing a 24-hour news cable network. >> to the outside world it is initially unclear how rupert will differentiate. there is already a cnn. what on earth could he do that would be different? he keeps it very close to the vest. but there is one give away. >> we will be very lucky to obtain the services. >>...

We just expect to do fine, balanced journalism. >> fox news. >> rupert murdoch sees an audience that has been hungering for something just like this. >> it reflected murdoch and rogers political views. >> and fox becomes a rocket ship. >> theres a lot of natural speculation about succession. all three murdoch children are kind of coming into their own as executives. thats when this question really begins about who is it going to be? multimillionaire rupert murdoch is clearly in the united stat...

The u.k. she is incredibly well thought of. perhaps the most competent of the three adult children vying for the throne. >> it has been said he has never been particularly comfortable with women. >> you have a quote on that? i dont think he ever said that. >> this is only completely hearsay. >> i dont know if that is true. i can think of a number of senior women he has come to count on. and rely on in very important positions. i think that is traditional in many ways. >> rupert is a man of his g...

Work. >> short skirt. long legs. that was very important. >> roger had a vision, albeit an antiquated one about how women were supposed to look. so we became the manifestations of that image. >> he was in total command. people were afraid of him. it was a place he ruled with an iron hand. and it becomes clear to rupert that fox news is roger ailes. . >> you start to see fox gaining a toe hold with conservative audiences. >> and, basically, fox becomes

Election, there is a lot of debate about how involved he was in the infamous willy horton add. >> dukakis allowed first degree murders to have weekend passes from prison. one was wilie horton. he fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. >> ailes said he didnt do it but it was hard to believe he wasnt involved. >> do you think it is racist? >> i dont think it is racist. >> you mean you have a foreboding looking black man out there. that wasnt put up b...

It has to be rogers vision. i remember one story that i did. it was about gay marriage rights in massachusetts before it became law. and, i found two women who were a couple who had children and wanted to get married. my bureau chief gets a phone call from new york that says we pulled the story. we are killing the story. allison refers to them as a family and roger vent berserk. i said what other word is there? i was told many, many times it is all about the audience. think about what the viewer...

Involved. i drove him to the fox lot in central city. for the first time, sat down with the man himself. we marched into the interview. and i have to say, he didnt hold back at all during the entire conversation. murdoch was in his 60s so there was already talk about what kind of succession plans might be in place. i think rupert wanted to set the record straight. >> have your had ever had this conversation with you, some day you will run this country. >> no. no. my father is focused on the day-...

And they could just turn their back on the business and wave the white flag or they can try to double down and prove themselves to their father. and they choose the latter. >> it has always been a battle in the family. and anna, his wife of 30 years, watched that struggle happen. and, hated it. but, she held the family together while he cruised around the world. >> i think there is really a big gap between the public person and the private person of rupert murdoch. there are many qualities that ...

Rupert had what most felt was a great marriage. >> i think she thought it was the perfect marriage. i think the children thought it was the perfect marriage. >> rupert is approaching retirement age. and anna is thinking that it is time for rupert to stop this obsessive quest of building his empire. >> i think she was looking forward to being done with that. >> anna wanted the man she married to be with her occasionally and rupert didnt want that. >> it was really on this announcement in the new ...