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...fifty corporations owned a majority of the nation's book publishing firms, newspapers and broadcasting companies. Under Reagan, that number was halved. Today, only 26 corporations, including such companies as Capital Cities/ABC, Gannet Co., McGraw-Hill, Time, Inc. and Warner Communications own half or more of all the media outlets in the United States. In the 1940s, four out of five U.S. newspapers were privately owned. Today, almost four out of five newspapers are under corporate ownership. Twenty corporations owned most of America's magazines in 1982. By 1987, because of increased mergers and acquisitions, the 20 corporations were reduced...
Although busy with the demands of magazine journalism and with his marriage to Kimba Wood, a federal judge, Kramer has found time to co-write two books: The Ethnic Factor: How America's Minorities Decide Elections and I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of Anything!, a biography of Nelson Rockefeller. "I've known Michael a long time," says chief of correspondents John Stacks. "He's one of the most energetic, intelligent and assiduous reporters around. He's endlessly curious...
...Walt Disney Co. would seem a natural to do Dickens. Walt was, after all, the Dickens of his day, deviser of a comprehensive world in which humor taught homilies and fantasy purred up against sentimentality. But not until now has the studio based a cartoon musical feature on a Dickens tale. It was worth the wait. Oliver & Company is Dickens with a twist, and Disney with a treat. Turning Fagin's gang into canines, transporting them to modern Manhattan and embroidering the scene with street vendors and Tiffany dog tags, the picture makes for a luscious comic valentine...
Kovach, a highly respected New York Times bureau chief, was recruited by Cox two years ago to revive the flagging fortunes of the Atlanta papers. After beefing up the staff and running hard-hitting stories on such powerful local institutions as Coca-Cola and the Georgia Power Co., says Kovach, the papers' managers began urging shorter, softer stories in the mold of USA Today. Finally, following a showdown with the publisher over control of the papers' Washington bureau, Kovach quit...
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