Matthew Rickardson

At least that's what the media mob and the Democratic Extreme Radical Socialist Party would like you to think.

Tabloidisation, that's what is applied to Fox News.

It changes the media landscape in the sense that the predominant thing being, tell me what to think about the news, make me angry or upset or whatever about the news.

It's an enormously profitable business.

You know, you've ceased being a news or journalism outfit at that point and you've become something quite different, which...

bears a much closer relationship with propaganda.

Murdoch has always run his media empire in different parts of it, work with different parts of an audience, the upmarket respected newspapers versus the downmarket ones.

The Wall Street Journal was on Rupert Murdoch's radar for a long time.

This was a newspaper that was unbuyable for him, that the family who owned it said, not in a million years will we sell to a man like Rupert Murdoch.

And yet, within a matter of months, they had sold to Rupert Murdoch.

And when you're Rupert Murdoch and you have both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, again, it positions you in such a... You know, you have that powerful role.

Who is...

really going to go against you do you think rupert murnock surpassed his own expectations oh undoubtedly undoubtedly look who knows i'm not in his head so i don't know but if he could have looked into the crystal ball and seen himself in you know from 1952 to 2025 i think it's very hard for him to would have been very hard for him to conceive of being where he is now

He certainly transformed the British media, the Australian media, and the US media.

He has had this fascinating, but for many people, poisonous impact on political discourse, on politics more generally.

All right, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Now we can see how much damage the company has done to journalism, to democracy.

It's like Victor Frankenstein and his monster.

You know, they've created a monster which has now gotten away from them.