Bunker USA: Bloody Murdoch – Is the real-life Logan Roy unstoppable?

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Phone hacking, false claims of election hacking and a potential high profile libel case with a maligned BBC newsreader. Those are just a few of the scandals facing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the last few years. Despite this, the 92-year-old media mogul’s vice-like grip on the media landscape has remained as powerful as ever. Gavin Esler is joined in The Bunker by journalist William D Cohan, to find out how Murdoch has maintained his position of influence and power. “There's a lot of power entrusted with Murdoch, and there's no accountability for his behaviour” “If I were him, I would be deeply disturbed by what my television network had created.” "Publishers have no appetite, or budget, for tough investigative reporting." www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Producer: Chris Jones & Liam Tait. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:17.0	Rupert Murdoch is said by some to be one of the inspirations
1:21.0	Logan Roy. He's the mogul at the head of the most influential media conglomerate in the United States
1:28.0	But Logan Roy is fiction and in the series he died.
1:32.0	Rupert Murdoch is in his 90s he is very much fat and very much alive.
1:37.0	After the phone hacking scandal, Murdoch closed down the News of the World newspaper in Britain.
1:42.0	After his American TV station Fox so-called
1:44.9	news alleged failures and irregularities in voting machines in the 2020 US presidential election
1:51.5	and suggested they cost Donald Trump victory, a made-up scandal,
1:55.2	Murdoch's company had to find three quarters of a billion dollars in damages to those
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