Word: circe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because a tough press code inhibits critics of the Papadopoulos regime, most newspapers in Greece now imply criticism only by withholding praise. Such discretion never appealed to Yiannis Horn, editor-publisher-owner of the English-language Athens News (circ. 6,000). He not only prints statements by opposition politicians but also punctuates stories with blunt editor's notes ("We demand an explanation from the regime on this"). Last October Horn headlined a story on Spiro Agnew's visit: BOMBS, RECRUITED SCHOOLCHILDREN...
...Paris-based Trib (circ. 121,000) is no mere letter from home. It is far different from the daily described by The New Yorker's Janet Planner as "the village newspaper" of the American expatriate colony in Paris, the favorite of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss...
...papers now serve state capitals as far apart as Hartford and Honolulu. Last year was the company's biggest ever for acquisitions: 17 dailies for a total of $130 million, mostly in Gannett stock. This year the group has already paid $14 million for the Nashville, Tenn., Banner (circ. 97,800), and next month plans to take over the El Paso Times (59,348) for an estimated $20 million. With Gannett stock selling at some 35 times earnings, stockholders at the corporation's annual meeting in Rochester last week authorized a doubling of outstanding shares to 20 million...
...publication that never bought Muskie is the New Democrat (circ. 4,000), a lively monthly devoted to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Editor Stephen Schlesinger, 29, admits to no clairvoyance in foreseeing Edmund Muskie's fall and the rise of George McGovern-only partisanship.* Schlesinger, the son of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., founded the magazine in 1970 as a podium from which to preach party reform and "call attention to the dead leadership...
...growing numbers are banning display advertising for X-rated films because papers do not want to publicize pornography. Such forerunners as the San Diego Union and Tribune, Houston Post and Boston Herald Traveler have recently been joined by two more major papers: Cleveland's morning Plain Dealer (circ. 409,935) and the Detroit News (650,180), the nation's largest afternoon daily. That made the X blackout effective for 7% of the total U.S. daily circulation and brought forth a protest from Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. No newspaper, said Valenti, should...