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From The Archive: Exploring The Alliance Between Roy Cohn, Rupert Murdoch and Ronald Reagan and The Origin of Fox News
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From The Archive: Exploring The Alliance Between Roy Cohn, Rupert Murdoch and Ronald Reagan and The Origin of Fox News

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Sep 22, 2023
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Click to watch: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2vgi9-14b0878

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspapers hit the streets on Friday morning without the news that the media mogul was stepping down and his son Lachlan would become sole chair of News Corp and Fox Corp. The news was broken – after the print deadline in Australia – by one of Murdoch’s US mastheads, the Wall Street Journal.  

This episode of Narativ is from the Narativ archive – Part 1 of Spy Murdoch: The Story Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Want You to Know about the Beginnings of Fox News. My guest is Pulitzer award winner David L. Marcus, Roy Cohn’s cousin.

This episode explores the unlikely alliance between Roy Cohn, Rupert Murdoch, and Ronald Reagan. We delve into how Rupert Murdoch gained traction in the media business in exchange for positive write-ups for Ronald Reagan in the New York Post. We explore Cohn’s “Favor Bank” style of bartering, the close relationship between Ronald Reagan and Murdoch, and how this led to Murdoc…

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