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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. he's 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 the new york post really begins to kind of chronicle it. >> everybody wants to read the dirt that's ...

>> what's 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 wasn't 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 murdoch's 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 young real estate tycoon on the make.[music] >> donald trump was probably in the new york post eve...

>> but the reagan administration deliverance. [music] >> second he's 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] >> it's 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. but there's one thing that stands in his way. the print unions in the uk. so, murdaughs decides he...

>> 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 interest in money and celebrity, and the new york post really begins to kind of chronicle it. [honki...

Lives would be shaped by pursuit of one thing. >> rupert had laid out that he wants one of his children to succeed him, he doesn't say when he doesn't say who and he doesn't say how. that it's 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 murdoch's, empire of influence, is brought to you by sling, the tpe love for a price you will love.