it s about putting your rivals under. mr. maxwell rupert discovered if you start turning the dial down market, ratings go up. sex and murder, blood and mayhem. he bought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. this is his moment to expand. murdoch put his stamp on the city of new york. here i am. you better pay some attention. i m going to have one hell of an impact. as usual, we were drinking one night. the producers, the reporters and me. we always gathered. this is the first concrete block was removed by east german workers. then we hear the berlin wall is coming down. what? we ve got to go. what? a current affairs got to go to the wall? oh, yeah. so we made a few calls. and we commandeered the gulfstream jet. and about eight or nine of us got on that jet at midnight and flew to berlin. a current affair was rupert s baby. the point where i believe rupert wrote a check out of his own checking account every single week for the show. this s
to this empire. early on, rupert develops a machiavellian approach to the newspaper business. it s about putting your rivals under. and mr maxwell certainly has lost. and, rupert discovered if you start turning the dial down market, ratings go up. sex and murder and blood, and mayhem. he bought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. this is his moment to expand. post here! get your post here. new york post. murdoch put his stamp on the city of new york. here i am. you d better pay some attention. i m going to have one hell of an impact. as usual, we were drinking one night, the producers, the reporters and me. we always gathered. the first concrete block was removed by east german workers. and we hear the berlin wall is coming down. what? we ve got to go. what? a current affair s got to go to the wall? oh yeah. so we made a few calls. and we commandeered the gulfstream jet. and about eight or nine of us got on that jet at midnight and flew t
crucial. reagan carried new york state in the 1980 election. rupert murdoch celebrates delivering new york to reagan. and this is where the murdoch way really comes into play. roy cohn on behalf of murdoch, and murdoch himself, they extend invitations to the reagan team. why don t you come visit one of the papers? how about an interview for one of our star correspondents? and the short of it is that the reagan staff either drops the ball or doesn t care, and they rebuff him. at the time, murdoch is furious. so roy cohn in fact writes a couple of letters to the very inner sanctum of the reagan administration.
and this is where the murdoch way really comes in to play. roy cohn, on behalf of murdoch, and murdoch himself, extend invitations to the reagan team. why don t you come visit one of the papers? how about an interview for one of our star correspondents? and the short of it is that the reagan staff either drops the ball or doesn t care and they rebuck him. at the time murdoch is furious. so roy cohn, in fact, writes a couple of letters to the very inner sanctum of the reagan administration and he writes, i had one interest when i first brought rupert murdoch and governor reagan together, that was at least one major publisher in this country would become and remain pro-reagan.