The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta on Profiling the Murdochs | 10

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We thought we knew everything about the Murdochs. Then we met Ken Auletta. He's one of the best media reporters in the biz — four decades at The New Yorker, a handful of bestsellers under his belt, and quite a few encounters with the Murdochs along the way. He tells us what the family is like up close, and what the future holds for their diminished empire.

Want to read some of Ken’s work? Check out “The Pirate,” his incomparable 1995 profile of Rupert: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/11/13/the-pirate

And don’t miss “The Heiress,” his more recent story about Liz: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/10/the-heiress-2

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. I'm Brooke Sifran and I'm Ereia Skinner Williams and this is even the rich.
0:27.0	Over the last four episodes we've been taking a close look at the Murdoch kids
0:32.0	the bickering the backstabbing, the ridiculous
0:35.3	tattoos.
0:36.3	Apparently people aren't on their best behavior when there are billions of dollars on the
0:40.4	line. Yeah, never go to a tattoo parlor angry. Well I mean I was talking about their... on the So we're not done with the Murdoch's yet. In our next two episodes we're going to
0:56.8	pull back the curtain even further. Ooh pull back that curtain brook pull it back.
1:02.2	And to do it we have some help. That's right. Today I'm going to be speaking with Ken Aleta. Ken is a
1:08.0	legendary reporter who's written 12 books about everything from television to finance to technology.
1:15.0	He's also been on staff at the New Yorker for longer than I've been alive.
1:18.6	Oh my God, he's been on staff for 63 years?
1:21.0	Shut up!
1:23.0	Okay, how long really?
1:24.0	43 years.
1:26.0	Wow.
1:27.0	And in that time he's covered, you guessed it, the Murdoch's.
1:30.0	Let's just say he knows a thing or two about what makes them tick. Hi Ken it's so great to speak with you.
1:47.8	Hi Ken, it's so great to speak with you.
1:50.6	Thank you.
1:51.4	How are you doing today? I'm doing great.
1:54.0	I'm just writing away and it's a pleasurable interlude.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.