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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority position contradicts itself by advocating a House assignment system that ignores student preferences. The advantages that a diverse housing system offers can be fully realized only when students are allowed to choose among alternatives or at least to express a preference. By not giving incoming freshmen a choice of living at the Quad with upperclassmen or offering upperclassmen the choice of living at the Quad with freshmen, the supposed alternative becomes meaningless...
...World, which has a Sunday circulation--the largest in London--of somewhere around 3.5 million and is quite possibly the worst newspaper in the world. In this country, Murdoch controls The National Star, modeled after The National Enquirer (supermarket checkout aisle journalism), and the San Antonio News-Express. This week Murdoch is splashed across the covers of both Time and Newsweek, on one as King Kong and the other under the headline PRESSLORD TAKES CITY, a true cultural hero in his own right, bigger even the Bruce Springsteen, the last face accorded the dual cover honor...
...Britain is a decaying one. So he went to America." Murdoch started in San Antonio, one of only three major U.S. cities with competing afternoon dailies (the others: Baltimore and Philadelphia). In a single day he flew into San Antonio and, without even touring the plant of the Express-News, bought it for $18 million. His next effort was an unsuccessful bid for the Washington Star. "We knew it was very difficult to buy any large viable newspaper in the U.S., except for astronomical figures," he recalls. "So I said, 'Let's start something in the popular field.' " Result...
...first American venture, San Antonio's morning Express and the afternoon News, Murdoch again showed little interest in politics. Neither paper staffed the state or national political conventions, although each sends sportswriters as far away as Seattle to follow the Spurs, the city's pro basketball team. Pitting the News against Hearst's Light, Murdoch began a circulation war that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black...
...morning Express, with no opposition to fight, is far more respectable, although its slogan?TEXAS' GREATEST MORNING NEWSPAPER?causes derisive laughter in the city rooms of the Houston Post and the Dallas Times Herald. The Express covers local news reasonably well and runs Columnists James Reston, James J. Kilpatrick and Jack Anderson. It is no better or worse than a dozen other papers in cities of similar size. Even Murdoch finds it "a little gray...