Heather Ann Thompson
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670 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Heather Ann Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When Reagan is on his ascendancy, essentially, Murdoch is not in the United States, but quickly is realizing the importance of media to the creation of a new conservative political order.
In the United States, in England, with Chet Patcherism,
This is a goal for a lot of folks.
He's one of them.
And he decides he's coming to the United States with one goal, which is to dominate the U.S.
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
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