COLLECTION NAME:
Conference on World Affairs Audio Archive
Record
Collection Name:
Conference On World Affairs Archives
identifier:
cwa_86-105.mp3
title:
I Hate Rupert Murdoch!
titleType:
Program
titleSeries:
Series V: Media
subject:
Murdoch, Rupert, 1931-
subject:
Journalism
subject:
Press and politics
subject:
Newspapers
description:
Moderated by Michael Ehlers; 00:14 Recording starts in the middle of a conversation; 02:20 Marilyn Stasio talks about [Robert Barron] and satanic literature; 05:00 Stasio talks about the entertainment pages in the news and what art is represented; 07:40 Stasio talks about the representation of celebrities and how the news never covers the content of the person but what they are wearing; 08:35 Stasio talks about meeting Rupert Murdoch; 11:17 Stasio finishes her talk and the next panelist, Roger Ebert begins his discussion. The Ebert talks about a story related to Rupert Murdoch; 15:00 Ebert talks about the Chicago Sun-Times and “the window†after a merge and strike of the paper; 17:30 Ebert talks about how boring the Chicago Tribune was; 20:00 Ebert talks about Murdoch taking over the Sun-Times newspaper and what it was like at the beginning; 28:00 Ebert goes over the headlines on the front pages of newspapers; 30:23 Andrew Neil starts his discussion. He talks about his favorite headlines from the New York Post and New York [Daily] News; 33:00 Neil talks about how the New York Post is losing Murdoch money; 34:15 Neil talks about his experience running The Sunday Times, London. He shows the front page and brags that the paper covers international news very seriously; 38:50 Neil compares his journalistic work environment in England to an American work environment and continues to say how competitive it is in England to make sure his national paper is read while in America there is more of a “big city monopoly environmentâ€; 40:30 Adam Hochschild begins his discussion by stating he is the only panelist that works for a publication not owned by Rupert Murdoch; 41:20 Hochschild talks about the attacks on Rupert Murdoch and the themes that reoccur such as the fact that Murdoch’s papers publish a lot of information that is not news, they focus on celebrities, and serious news gets ignored but Hochschild mentions that these attacks have been problems in American newspapers for a long time; 45:30 Hochschild talks about how newspapers have to compete with television which is why American newspapers have topics that are not considered newsworthy; 46:50 Hochschild believes people should approach newspapers with critical skepticism; 49:35 Ehlers invites the audience to stay for questions. He also asks the panel to comment about the correlation between politics and Murdoch’s politics reflected in his papers; 50:52 Unidentified panelist [possibly Roger Ebert] starts the discussion on Murdoch’s politics by stating he believes Murdoch is more conservative than liberal and his papers reflect that; 51:27 Stasio adds to the discussion about Murdoch’s politics and mentions her newspaper was used to elect Ed Koch the current mayor in New York; 53:36 Andrew Neil responds to the question about Murdoch’s politics and how The Sunday Times, London differs when talking about politics; 54:17 Unidentified panelist [possibly Adam Hochschild] responds to the question of Murdoch’s politics. 54:49 Unidentified person [possibly Roger Ebert] speaks about their concerns with the freedom of the press and politics and mentions the saying “the freedom of the press belongs to the man that owns one.†He continues to say that The Tribune will conform their paper to any political majority in any state because they only really care about the bottom line of selling newspapers; 58:10 Stasio talks about the issue of the role of print union and the survival of the newspaper; 01:01:12 Andrew Neil talks about British print unions; 01:05:23 Audience member asks a question about Rupert Murdoch’s sports network; 01:08:18 Audience member asks Ebert how The Sun-Times improved; 01:13:28 Audience member mentions that Murdoch’s influence in the San Antonio Express made it a terrible paper and the town is so corrupt journalistically; 01:16:24 Stasio responds to the audience member’s comments; 01:18:18 Audience member talks about Richard Nixon and the Republican National Convention. He also talks about the competition that Neil talked about and Murdoch’s politics; 01:19:40 Neil responds to the audience member’s question. The audience member does not agree with Neil’s response; 01:24:21 Stasio interjects to respond to the same audience member about politics in newspapers; 01:25:39 Unidentified panelist also interjects about the audience member’s question regarding politics in the newspaper; 01:26:50 New audience member asks a question about the problems with Murdoch and his political power. Ebert responds first and Neil follows up by stating he believes Murdoch’s political influence will not be as powerful in television because you can convey more politics in a paper than you can on television; 01:32:46 Hochschild responds to Neil’s comments; 01:35:12 Neil responds to Hochschild’s comments and states he believes there are more democratic journalists than republican journalists. The panelists continue to talk back and forth about the topic; 01:35:49 Unidentified panelist talks about the concentration of ownership; 01:38:30 Stasio talks about how Murdoch cannot sell the New York Post; 01:39:05 Audience member asks a question [cataloger’s note: question difficult to decipher]; 01:43:00 Audience member asks the panel how Murdoch operates and if he is just in it for the money; 01:45:00 Panel ends.
descriptionType:
Program
description:
[cataloger’s note: noise in the background makes the recording difficult to decipher throughout]
coverageSpatial:
Memorial East Ballroom
contributor:
Stasio, Marilyn
contributorRole:
Panelist
contributor:
Ebert, Roger
contributorRole:
Panelist
contributor:
Hochschild, Adam
contributorRole:
Panelist
contributor:
Neil, Andrew
contributorRole:
Panelist
publisher:
CWA/Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder
publisherRole:
Publisher
rightsSummary:
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dateCreated:
1986-04-10
formatMediaType:
Sound
formatPhysical:
1/4 inch audio cassette
formatDigital:
audio/mpeg
formatGenerations:
Audio/Original recording
formatStandard:
MPEG Audio
formatEncoding:
audio/mp3
formatDuration:
1:45:22
formatTracks:
1 audio track
formatChannelConfiguration :
dual-channel mono
language:
English