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Soon after he quit a month ago, however, Kenny supplied racy recollections to Britain's biggest daily, Rupert Murdoch's sensational tabloid, the Sun (circ. 4.2 million), for the unprincely sum of about $2,000. The first installment, splashed across two pages last week, purported to describe the "amorous antics" of the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, 23, including one putative tryst in a gallery in Windsor Castle hung with portraits of his royal ancestors. Kenny was quoted as telling the Sun: "[Andrew's] dates were always young and fanciable. He was so sure...
...past four occupants of the White House made more money writing his memoirs than he earned in salary while President. But some citizens, especially journalists, have objected to former high officials' profiting from their inside knowledge. Victor Navasky, editor of the 117-year-old leftist weekly the Nation (circ. 48,000), raised that argument, among others, in April 1979 to justify his printing a 2,250-word article on President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of President Nixon that was little more than a summary of a pirated copy of Ford's then unpublished memoir, A Time...
...sold on newsstands to ordinary citizens. Last week, during an era of renewed East-West tension, that barrier was broken in a small way: Soviet officials distributed 20,000 copies of the first issue of In the World of Science, a Russian-language version of Scientific American (worldwide circ. 1 million in eight languages) that is being produced under a licensing agreement with Mir, a Moscow publishing house. Said Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in an introductory editorial: "This publication in the U.S.S.R. acquires special significance at this time of limited international co operation...
...Guide, the nation's largest weekly (circ. 17.5 million), has long been known as something of a cheerleader for the industry it covers. For the past few years, however, TV Guide's editors have been trying to introduce a brand of muckraking to their pages. Last May the magazine exposed what CBS News later acknowledged were journalistic violations in a network documentary, aired in January 1982, that assailed the Viet Nam War conduct of General William Westmoreland. Last week, however, TV Guide found itself fending off charges of inaccuracy and unfairness, made by CBS, among others, against...
English-language financial coverage is booming in Europe. The Financial Times (circ. 213,000 worldwide) started printing part of its run in Frankfurt in 1979 and now has 33,000 readers on the Continent. The Paris-based International Herald Tribune (European circ. 112,000), a general-interest daily, has increased its business coverage by 25% within the past two years. Moreover, the London-based weekly Economist (European circ. 35,000) has been joined by international editions of two American magazines, Business Week (European circ. 38,000) and FORTUNE (European circ. 45,000). Journal officials insist that the territory is large...