machiavellian approach to the newspaper business. 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 brought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in new england. this is your chance 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 comen deared the gulf stream 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 ch
Help in the future. newspapers, competing with television. really do see network television as your main competitor? absolutely. the ultimate power in the united states now is in television. i believe more journalists, more publishers should be in television. television is dominated by three networks, abc, cbs and nbc. johnny? he is going to invent a fourth television network. today confirmation of the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. as murdoch sets out to create a fourth national network, this audacious thing, he s betting it all. publishers rupert murdoch
Important state for reagan. he s trying to build what we now consider a blue state support. he wants to win new york. [ sirens ] and murdoch thinks he thinks about what do i have to do to get my advantage? and basically the new york post became a propaganda arm for the reagan candidacy. they had probably more influence with voters than the new york times, the dominant newspaper in new york city because it was the blue collar paper. it was the paper of the working class. we really believed that we could make in roads among those voters. ronald wilson reagan, the projected winner of the 1980 presidential election. thank you all.
For gossip columns, which i found really fascinating. roy cohen and murdoch became friendly and, in fact, cohen represented murdoch at some point. there isn t anything i would not do because law and that is winning. cohen interviews was the worst single worst human being i ve ever encountered. cohen would boast about you never apologize, you never go on defense, you always go on offense. deny everything, admit nothing, launch counterattack. attack, attack, attack. attack, attack, attack. don t accept. don t compromise. kill them.
i was in city hall where all the reporters were. and dick oliver, the daily news, said, hey, george, your paper has been bought by rupert murdoch. i said, who is rupert murdoch? one of america s oldest daily newspapers, the new york post is going to be sold into foreign hands. the australian press baron, mr. rupert murdoch. before murdoch took over the new york post, the post was a liberal newspaper. they had been around forever. alexander hamilton started the newspaper. this is a copy of the new york post, the lead story, the water main break on sixth avenue. it was really dull. dorothy schiff, was the owner, was losing money on the new york post. and there was a real concern that the paper would go under.