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Jake Tapper on Writing Novels, the '70s, Print Days, Rupert Murdoch, and the New CNN

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The Anger That Needs Channeling

A lot of the philosophy of Max Lyon is lifted directly from books about Rupert Murdoch like the idea of anger and outrage being you know two emotions that you want to tap into with the public. The line character says that in the United States in the 70s there's quote an anger that needs channeling a rage that needs to be sated with enemies. I wanted to show that some of these people actually had things that they're mad about that are legitimate. You have people dying of Agent Orange in the book Agent Orange Exposure and that's a legitimate thing. So again like I was trying to I didn't want to even though I was dealing with things that have residents today in terms of exploitation

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