#351 Do You Know Who My Dad Is? Episode 5: Fox News & The New York Times

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Betches Sup presents the fifth installment of the 8-episode limited series exposing the connections you never knew existed: Do You Know Who My Dad Is? explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system. Hosts Bryan Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles are talking all about the privilege that leads inexperienced and unaccomplished children of powerful people to get ahead. On this week’s episode, we’re talking all about the families behind two of the biggest media empires in the world, Fox News (the Murdochs) and The New York Times (the Ochs Sulzbergers). First, Bryan walks us through the history of the Murdochs, starting with patriarch Rupert Murdoch’s rise to wealth and power. Plus, he shares the many scandals the family has endured and how Rupert’s children stand to inherit his vast empire. Next, Alicia outlines the lineage of the Ochs Sulzbergers and how the role of publisher has been passed from one (white male) family member to another for over a century. Finally, they finish this week’s episode with a game called “Get With the Times” all about some of the most interesting facts about these two media families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you know who my dad is? A limited series podcast from Betches Media.
0:08.0	Hosted by Brian Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles. Do you know who my dad is? A podcast about failing up.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to Do you know who my dad is? I'm Brian Russell Smith and I'm Alicia
0:24.0	Angeles do you know who my dad is is a limited series podcast by the
0:28.0	Betches not another true crime and at Betches exploring dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system.
0:37.0	Yes, this podcast exposes a privilege that leads to an and unaccomplished children of powerful people,
0:44.9	usually white men, getting ahead
0:47.0	despite lack of experience, intelligence, and mediocrity.
0:51.5	Nepotism leads a privilege, which leads to a false sense of entitlement which leads to
0:55.9	unqualified people getting the most powerful positions in multiple facets of our society.
1:00.9	Let's get d'nasty. Hi Lisa,
1:05.0	Hi Brian, how are you?
1:07.0	Happy Friday.
1:08.3	Happy Friday. Yeah.
1:10.2	Well, that's good because so we record these on Fridays and they also come out on
1:14.4	Friday so we can say that and it makes sense. Yeah, I just put that together now.
1:18.7	Yeah, because for those of you don't know, this is not live.
1:23.5	This is pre-recorded.
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:25.9	We are not good to us.
1:28.0	What are we getting into today?
1:29.6	Today we're talking about media.
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