Heather Ann Thompson

media market.

And he's going to start that goal realization in New York City by purchasing the New York Post at the end of the 70s, a tabloid paper, but one that had been relatively liberal in orientation.

And one that tons of New Yorkers read on the subway every day.

You know, you get one on any street corner.

And his goal was to beat out the competing paper, which was the Daily News.

And the way he was going to do it was through sensationalism, feminism.

through rage baiting, race baiting, but also through subtly giving people a steady message, which is liberal government is a failure.

The public sector is a failure.

The problems you're experiencing in the city are because of welfare cheats and lazy blacks.

And you're going to get a different thing if you start supporting people like Reagan, if you start supporting privatization, if you start admiring guys like Donald Trump, who's always featured prominently in the New York Post, his flashy lifestyle.

Greed is good, right?

This message that greed is good.

You too can be a millionaire if you just work hard enough.

And that, what I didn't fully appreciate, was the beginning of really what we see today.

He will go on to own Fox News as this very vast, Fox just is a very vast network, and

very strategically become the largest purveyor of news in the United States, the most watched news in the United States.

And over time, much more misinformation, much less fact checking and bias checking.

And it's going to be a very, very important tool, as we later saw, for the rise in what we have right now, which is the hordes of immigrants coming over the border.

Keep your eye on them.

Don't keep your eye on the fact that the tax rate for rich people is lower than it's ever been since the 19th century.