Tina Brown
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However, you know, he's just, journalistically, he broke every single promise.
He said, you're going to have total editorial freedom and I won't come anywhere near it, like within minutes.
same day pretty much the same day it was like he wanted him harry to support thatcher he was very angry when harry would publish stories that were not not for thatcher he wanted to support thatcher because thatcher was for his business interest as simple as that and harry was just supposed to toe the line and he just wasn't going to do it you know so can bring you both him so murdoch's views are pro thatcher pretty anti-monarchy he's quite republican right for a while
Yes, he's anti-monarchy.
Basically, it's for his business interests.
I mean, that's the end of it, you know.
And he was very, very clear about what he wanted.
I think over the years, by the way, he's been more undercover about it a lot of times.
But what he does now, really, I mean, most of the time, I will say, as I say now with the Journal and Wall Street Journal and the Sunny Times, it's the very good newspapers, I think.
He has, but it's always his first love.
In fact, recently he launched the New York Post in California, a sort of mad, crazy venture because no one in California has ever read a newspaper.
Yeah, he hates Gavin Newsom.
I mean, he sees he still thinks that the tabloid front page is an instrument for harassment and shaming.
And it is.
And we all love reading it.
But that's purely what would motivate him to do that.
Absolutely.
You know, he invented monstering, really, didn't he?
And I'm afraid it's done with so much flair that, you know, it's compelling and that's the problem.
You can't do monster and monster.