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Amanpour

Fox eyes life after Rupert

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

92-year-old Rupert Murdoch stepped aside last week as chairman of the Fox Corporation and News Corp, triggering a potentially seismic shift in media spanning the globe. Christiane looks at where the empire strikes next, now that it’s in the hands of Murdoch’s first son Lachlan. She is joined by Andrew Neil, former editor of the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times of London, and tech and media journalist Kara Swisher.  Also on today's show: 26.2 to Life director Christine Yoo & subject Markelle Taylor; author Helen Prejean (from the Amanpour archives)  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

One week since Rupert Murdoch's step aside,

0:10.0

we examine the Fox fallout and his deep political influence in the United States and beyond,

0:15.9

with journalist Kara Swisher and Andrew Neal.

0:19.1

Then, listen up everybody.

0:21.1

We've got the half marathon in 32 days.

0:24.8

Running through their sentences.

0:26.9

Hurry Strenovusen explores the documentary 26.2 to life

0:31.8

about San Quentin Prisonisons Marathon Club.

0:35.0

Plus, you're counting down the time to die.

0:39.0

It's the most surreal thing that you can imagine in the world.

0:43.4

A look back at my conversation with anti-death penalty activist Helen Pre-Champ

0:48.3

as her memoir Dead Man Walking is adapted for New York's Metropolitan Opera. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. We begin with a potentially seismic shift in media

1:16.0

spanning the globe from Australia to the UK to the United States.

1:21.0

Since 92 year old Rupert Murdoch stepped aside last week as chairman of the Fox Corporation

1:26.2

and News Court.

1:27.2

For decades he had presided over a massive empire of television, newspapers, and tabloids, but attracting most of the attention was the

1:35.2

far-right Fox News which he created nearly 27 years ago.

1:39.7

How the lighter I am that we've now reached this moment when we can firmly announce the starting of a Fox News channel and a much greater effort on the buildup of Fox News in every area.

1:54.0

Indeed, over the years, Fox's influential role in US politics

1:58.4

ballooned with Republicans covering exposure

2:01.3

to its conservative leaning audience.

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