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...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...
...days to try major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol's kidnaping, still unsolved, was claimed by GRAPO, which is demanding amnesty for the remaining political prisoners in return for Oriol's freedom. Sure enough, GRAPO also identified itself as the grabber...
Those theories may be a bit too facile to sum up the complicated man who can, at the same time, publish a quality national daily like The Australian and an ignoble fish wrapper like the San Antonio News, who can shake...
Still, Murdoch went cruising for another bruising. Says one friend: "Australia is a small society, and Britain is a decaying one. So he went to America." Murdoch started in San Antonio, one of only three major U.S. cities with competing afternoon dailies (the others: Baltimore and Philadelphia). In a single day he flew into San Antonio and, without even touring the plant of the Express-News, bought it for $18 million. His next effort was an unsuccessful bid for the Washington Star. "We knew it was very difficult to buy any large viable newspaper in the U.S., except for astronomical...
...first American venture, San Antonio's morning Express and the afternoon News, Murdoch again showed little interest in politics. Neither paper staffed the state or national political conventions, although each sends sportswriters as far away as Seattle to follow the Spurs, the city's pro basketball team. Pitting the News against Hearst's Light, Murdoch began a circulation war that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black...