Word: australian
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...Rupert Murdoch, the owner of 87 newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States. His holdings outside the United States include The Australian, Australia's only national newspaper, and The News of the World, which has a Sunday circulation--the largest in London--of somewhere around 3.5 million and is quite possibly the worst newspaper in the world. In this country, Murdoch controls The National Star, modeled after The National Enquirer (supermarket checkout aisle journalism), and the San Antonio News-Express. This week Murdoch is splashed across the covers of both Time and Newsweek, on one as King Kong...
...CLOSER LOOK at the Murdoch chain reveals that comparisons with other presslords past and present may be premature. Twenty-three per cent of Murdoch's papers are English weeklies; another 30 are suburban Australian weekly papers that are practically given away. But there is one thing that can be said of the Murdoch papers--almost uniformly, they make money, and lots of it. One of the few exceptions is the Sydney-based Australian, which as Australia's leading newspaper, threw considerable clout into the election of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. A few years later The Australian threw even more...
...many New Yorkers, that tale would have seemed only slightly more bizarre than the melodrama unfolding on their front pages and television screens last week. Rupert Murdoch ?the furry-browed, softspoken, intensely competitive Australian owner of ten major newspapers, 13 magazines and dozens of lesser publications?had no sooner established himself as the owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting...
...Murdoch's most important new venture, the few changes wrought so far at the somnolent New York Post during his first week of ownership are mostly benign. He has picked a new editor: Australian-born TIME Senior Editor Edwin Bolwell, a former New York Timesman and Toronto Star managing editor. Murdoch has added a distinctive dark red banner across the top of the front page and banished ads from the first seven pages. Page six has been reserved for a mild stew of short, gossipy items?including last week's tongue-in-cheek rewrite of an Associated Press report that...
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...