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, to the point where i believe rupert wrote a check out of his own checking account every single week for the show. this show is rampant anarchy. rupert liked it because it was cheeky. charles and camilla s naughty thong fantasy. it was edgy. these gorgeous playmates frolic with privileged guests. a current affair. it was a tabloid show. he said there is a place for a show like this, and people will gravitate to it. so we end up in berlin. as you can hear, there s a lot of joy. there s a lot of celebration. i m up there anchoring next to the wall. here s rather on my left. these are the sights and sounds of the continuing celebration. brokaw on my right. what you see behind me is a celebration of this new policy. they look at me and say, what the [ bleep ] are you doing here? i said, we re here to
the sarissa. named after a macedonian weapon of war. it s this exquisite sailing vessel. it s a work of art. as we understand it, they re sleeping on the boat. it s the caribbean. it s peaceful. in the middle of the night, rupert gets up to relieve himself and trips and falls. rupert is lying on the floor of his cabin, and he can t get up and the situation seems serious, he may not survive. a lot is at stake here, his own life as well as his company. he has not yet designated an heir. and the future of his media empire will be up for grabs. stand by. there we go. okay. get ready to roll. tell me a little bit about rupert murdoch. rupert murdoch is the most powerful political force in america. you can put an eagle in a cage and the eagle will not give in. you don t know what they re thinking but you know it s going to end up well for you. that s how i think of him. i m a murdoch admirer. i always have been. murdoch is the most ruthless businessman in worl
the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny st
slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., which slut are you g
the u.s. economy, which used to be the envy of the world is in the most serious trouble since the great depression. inflation is rising, standard of living is declining. tremendous inflation and not much growth. the country was not in a great depression but the united states is in the dumps. wall street was cold, gray, wet, and miserable. there was no comfort to be found outside for investors there was not much inside. the tickers carried almost nothing but bad news. we would have a terrible decade for investing. people were skeptical of the stock market. it was a sleepy wall street. most economists expect a serious recession with at least 2 million more americans losing their jobs. regret to say we are in the worst economic mess since the great depression. from the first moment of his presidency, president reagan let him know that his top priority is the nation s economy. i put a freeze on pending regulations of the task force under vice president bush to revie