Rupert Murdoch denied bid to alter family trust; Documentarian Nic Stacey on the perils of over-consumption
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Rupert Murdoch wants to update his family trust in favor of his son Lachlan, who runs the Fox News empire. What’s behind Nevada commissioner Edmund J. Gorman Jr.’s decision to block the move? Kim Masters and Matt Belloni investigate.
Plus, Masters talks to documentarian Nic Stacey about his Netflix film, Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy. The London-based filmmaker tells us how he managed to pull together an impressive roster of whistleblowers from top companies such as Amazon, Adidas, and Apple. He also says that working with Netflix’s U.K. team was a breeze, despite the documentary’s focus on tech giants. Stacey also explains why he chose to use an AI narrator named “Sasha” to guide viewers through the film.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:05.5 | The holidays are upon us, and what better way to get in the spirit than to hear |
| 0:09.8 | documentary and Nick Stacey try to talk us out of buying stuff? |
| 0:14.3 | The level of increase in the amount of clothes that people purchase is crazy. |
| 0:18.7 | I think people basically buy, I think it's 60% more clothes per year than they did |
| 0:24.0 | like 15 years ago. |
| 0:25.5 | There's just this huge increase in the amount of items that people buy, and they then |
| 0:29.6 | last a way shorter amount of time than they did in the past. |
| 0:33.9 | Nick Stacey joins me to talk about his Netflix film, Buy Now, The Shopping Conspiracy. |
| 0:39.1 | The London-based filmmaker tells us how he managed to pull together an impressive list of whistleblowers from Amazon, Adidas, and Apple. |
| 0:46.5 | He also says that working with Netflix's UK team was a breeze, even though he was taking on those tech giants. |
| 0:53.3 | And he explains why he chose to use an AI narrator he called Sasha to guide viewers through the film. |
| 0:59.6 | But first we banter. |
| 1:00.9 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 1:06.0 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. |
| 1:09.1 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi there. |
| 1:10.5 | Well, let me start by noting |
| 1:11.8 | that post-election, Fox News, seems to be the one cable news channel among the major ones that is |
| 1:18.9 | actually doing business. Their ratings are up 7% in prime time. CNN down 46%, MSNBC down 52%. So that is a change that happened, I think, |
| 1:32.5 | because people who watch those channels may be so discouraged by what happened with the election |
| 1:38.5 | that they don't want to watch news anymore. I know a lot of people are taking a break who were |
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