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Danny Boyle's 'Ink' revisits the rise of Rupert Murdoch and the price of tabloid success

Danny Boyle’s Ink, premiering at the London Film Festival, follows the rapid rise of British daily tabloid The Sun and the commercial pressures that reshaped journalism.

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00:01What does any bloke enjoy? Smoking, drinking.
00:04Television.
00:04Mindless.
00:05Violent.
00:06Let's keep it optimistic.
00:08Do you ever feel like something's gonna happen?
00:11Sex.
00:13Smashing.
00:14Do you ever feel like something's gonna happen?
00:17We want our readers to feel alive when they reach for their paper in the morning.
00:21Mr. Murdoch, this is not something that has been done before.
00:24Larry, Britain is crying out for something new.
00:27Something dangerous and something fast.
00:31Imagine, we could change the game.
00:34They're just scared, you know.
00:36They know what's coming.
00:37They can feel it.
00:38That is the sore away show.
00:40Step up at the top, please.
00:43Step to the middle, please.
00:45I'm sorry, Danny.
00:46Just up here, please.
00:48You better head to the middle, please.
00:50Contempting the story, even though it's set in 1969-70.
00:53The beginning of the film is very entertaining, I hope.
00:56And lures people in to feel complicit in that before it moves into a darkness.
01:01Because there is a cost to that attention economy, which we're now paying.
01:06Because we've lost sight of...
01:09Nobody knows what the truth is anymore.
01:11What do we rely on?
01:12The most powerful man in the world says a fact is fake news.
01:16And he says a lie is his truth social.
01:20You know, so where do you...
01:21If he's like that, what hope have we got, you know?
01:32It feels like an ignition point, really.
01:35And we all have hindsight.
01:38So, you know, we're sort of privileged in that way to understand what might have been going on then.
01:44But I think while these people were just focused solely on sales and selling scandal at the cost of journalistic
01:55standards,
01:56I think something gets lost in all the melee of it.
02:00At this point in time, things starting to change.
02:05So it was kind of an interesting point, really, to play somebody who sort of has the world on his
02:11shoulders
02:12and can either go this way or go this way.
02:16So, yeah, it was an interesting period to take on.

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