Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important, like Miami Beach. And now, in the space of about a month, The New York Post--bang! New York magazine--zap! The Village Voice--good Lord, The Voice, for chrissakes--whoosh! All whisked away like lumps of hair and grease in the Draino commercials, sold off to some Australian. Not since young Citizen Hearst blew out of California 80 years ago to buy, with his daddy's considerably-more-than-30-pieces of blood-stained silver money, a socialist German-language newspaper and start the Spanish-American War has New York faced such a challenge from the West. Things...
Wilson and two other members had lost their positions on the board in a move to make room for Rupert Murdoch, the Australian publisher...
...Last week two of the biggest potentates in publishing battled for the feat of Clay. The combatants: Katharine Graham, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post Co., which in addition to the D.C. daily owns Newsweek, the Trenton Times and four TV stations; and Rupert Murdoch, 45, buccaneering Australian proprietor of ten major newspapers and eleven magazines-including, as of last week, New York City's afternoon daily the Post, where he is editor in chief. Up for grabs: control of the umbrella New York Magazine...
...Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World and who two weeks ago agreed to buy the New York Post. But the Astors were troubled that many of Murdoch's 87 newspapers are distinguished chiefly by their attention to sex and scandal, and Murdoch would not guarantee editorial independence to Observer editors...
...particularly profitable cousin of the mindless National Enquirer, and his San Antonio Express and News (combined circ. 156,000) is even worse (sample scoops: UNCLE TORTURES TOTS WITH HOT FORK, HANDLESS BODY FOUND, GIRLS STREAK AT GUNPOINT). Yet Murdoch also publishes Australia's only national daily, The Australian, which at least aspires to quality, and he is currently bidding to buy the respected London Observer...