Tina Brown

I mean, I saw it.

I was with Harry when he was being seduced.

I thought he was a buccaneering swagger.

No, he didn't.

But he did think...

that because Murdoch actually is talented about media.

So if you talk to Murdoch about newspapers, he knows stuff.

Unlike Jeff Bezos, who hasn't got a clue how to run a newspaper, Murdoch does actually know how to run a newspaper.

Harry was the most sort of celebrated, crusading, you know, very well-regarded

respected editor of the Sunday Times in England.

And he was celebrated for his great thalidomide campaign where he campaigned for 10 years to get compensation for the victims of this thalidomide drug.

He broke the story of how Kim Philby was a Soviet spy.

He did the great DC-10

air crash story i mean he just did these groundbreaking investigations with the insight team his his in his investigative journalists and it was a golden period now they're making a tv show by the way about about that period it's called dragon slayers and matthew reese is playing harry by the way yes i know it's wonderful i know it's great it starts filming in in the fall and i've just you know i think harry gets his autumn we call it in your birthplace in the autumn yeah and um harry gets his great uh wish which was to be four inches taller with uh

So it was a great period in British newspapers.

This is the 70s.

But then there were the union strikes, huge amount of print strikes.

And that was a really frustrating time, you know, when the paper was closed at one point for about nine months because they couldn't get the unions to agree to what was then called, laughingly, the new technology.

They were upstairs in a floor of the Sunday Times.

There were all of these computers with hoods over them.