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...race relations have grown more embittered in Oakland, Calif., and outbreaks of violence have increased, the conservative Oakland Tribune (circ. 235,000) has earned the wrath of Negroes by solidly backing the police in every confrontation. Publisher William F. Knowland, 59, onetime Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has recently hired more Negro guards. At the same time, he has turned the already imposing Tribune building into something of a fortress. Every employee must show his pass before he can enter; Knowland's own office door is kept locked, and anyone seeking admission is scrutinized through a peephole...
...Class of '68 has no one symbol. But Brian Weiss of U.C.L.A., who ap pears on this week's TIME cover, pointedly conveys many of its new mold characteristics, opinions and attitudes. His voice is amplified more loudly than most since it is reflected in the Daily Bruin (circ. 18,000); Weiss has made such an impact as editor of the paper that many call it the Daily Brian. Weiss allows that he has "always been a wise-ass ? only my vocabulary has improved." He has called California Governor Ronald Reagan "a liar" for manipulating university financial figures...
Knight has never fancied himself a domineering press lord. Preferring to call his papers a group, not a chain, he encourages local autonomy, and his papers make the most of it. The Detroit Free Press (circ. 605,000), the Miami Herald (369,600), the Charlotte Observer (177,950), the Akron Beacon Journal (178,147), the Charlotte News (63,772) and the Tallahassee Democrat (29,300) are all increasing their circulation and are highly profitable. With interests in one television and three radio stations as well as three Florida weeklies, the group's total revenues reached $123 million...
...week, participating as much as ever in the writing and editing of his papers. Such concentration has made him not only the leading press lord of his state but also its most powerful citizen. In addition to putting out the state's biggest papers, the morning Daily Oklahoman (circ. 190,000) and the afternoon Oklahoma City Times (118,000), his Oklahoma Publishing Co. owns the state's largest TV and radio stations, its largest trucking express service, the Farmer-Stockman (450,000), a monthly reaching farmers throughout the Southwest...
Britain's Lord Thomson of Fleet has never laid eyes on the Ozark mountains. But ever on the lookout for profitable little newspapers, Thomson's North American agents cast covetous eyes on the Northwest Arkansas Times (circ. 14,825) of Fayetteville. The daily has been in Senator J. William Fulbright's family since 1913; last week it became Lord Thomson's latest U.S. acquisition. It brought the total of Thomson papers in the U.S. to 56-the largest U.S. chain...