Rupert. Logan. Clarence.
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Fox News settled with Dominion Voting Systems for over 780 million dollars on Tuesday. On this week’s On the Media, the impact media moguls, and their families, have had on our culture at large. Plus, the bigger lessons we can learn about money and free speech from the revelations surrounding Clarence Thomas.
1. Jim Rutenberg [@jimrutenberg], writer-at-large for the New York Times and its Sunday magazine, on the Dominion lawsuit settlement and what's next for Fox News. Listen.
2. Robert Thompson, professor of television, radio, and film at Syracuse University, on the impact of the Murdoch family and their media empire, and what can be learned about their real-life power from the fictional tv show. Listen.
3. Corey Robin [@CoreyRobin], professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, on what bigger lesson we can learn from the newest controversy around Justice Clarence Thomas. Listen.
Music from this week's show:
Finding Mink - Danny Elfman Eye Surgery - Thomas NewmanSuccession (Main Title Theme)Time is Late - Marcos CiscarString Quartet No. 5 - Philip Glass - Kronos QuartetTateh’s Picture Book - Randy Newman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you suppose to provide me six weeks of delicious content? |
| 0:05.0 | I wanted to see Rupert Mordart put his hand on the Bible and burst into flames. |
| 0:10.5 | Denied the site, Rupert Murdoch testifying when Fox News settled with Dominion Voting, |
| 0:16.4 | those of us who pine for lurid details about Murdoch's media empire can simply look back. |
| 0:23.0 | His first local papers are in San Antonio by the couple of papers and he lights that town |
| 0:28.8 | on fire by giving the people what they want. |
| 0:32.4 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Berk Gladstone. |
| 0:36.6 | When trying to understand Rupert Murdoch, does a fictional TV show help? |
| 0:41.8 | Succession lets us see Logan Roy, this kind of Rupert Murdoch standing in all of these |
| 0:49.0 | intimate situations because they get to make it all up. |
| 0:53.0 | So I'll come in up after this. |
| 0:59.8 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Berk Gladstone. |
| 1:08.8 | Earlier this week, media reporters descended on Wilmington, Delaware to see one of the biggest |
| 1:14.8 | First Amendment cases of the century, a lawsuit brought by a voting technology company. |
| 1:20.8 | Dominion had accused Fox News of knowingly pushing false conspiracy theories about what former |
| 1:25.6 | President Trump had claimed were rigged voting machines following the 2020 presidential election. |
| 1:30.6 | Part of this case centered on what Fox News hosts said on air to millions versus what some |
| 1:35.6 | of them were saying and texting in private about these false claims. |
| 1:39.6 | But I'm telling you that everyone involved in the case on the ground here were prepping |
| 1:44.6 | to go to trial full-bore. |
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