Matthew Rickardson

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So he bought the New York Post in the mid-1970s to establish a base.

He gets access to all sorts of, at the political level, gets access to heavy hitters in the commercial world, in the political world, in the cultural world.

You know, the New York Post historically had backed Democrats.

When he buys the New York Post, they campaign vigorously for Reagan's, Reagan to become the president.

He is in sync with Ronald Reagan ideologically and with the sort of Republican Party values.

You know, it's a big city, but it's a narrow elite.

Trump's relationship with Murdoch does go back to the 1980s and to the New York Post.

Murdoch had a very low opinion of him.

This is a man who'd lost money running a casino.

But Good Gossip Column is another one of Murdoch's must-haves in his formula for newspaper success.

Page Six is most definitely a very successful gossip column.

Trump is one of its key sources.

They kind of have that symbiotic relationship where

They're constantly pumping him up and he's constantly feeding them stories because he's a bit of a gossip magnet himself.

The brashness of Trump is very different to the much more considered, strategic, studious, long-term thinking of Murdoch.

It is not like it's an immediate marriage.

But he realises pretty quickly that he can make a lot more money in television.

And that's when, you know, he buys 50% of 20th Century Fox and that's the beginning of the Fox network, of the legacy we are now very familiar with.

He is the guy whose company bankrolled.