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...only person who hadn't been busy, it seems, was Clay Felker. At the first board meeting after the sale, Murdoch demanded two seats on the board, finalizing his control of the company. Murdoch also told Felker he thought he was an editorial genius and asked him to stay and run the magazine. Felker refused, and got busy, winning a temporary injunction preventing the sale of the burden bloc to Murdoch. Voice and New York magazine staffers staged a short walk-out in support of their editor. But later that week, it was back to the conference table. Felker...
...film critic in America. And "The Greasy Pole," a political column co-written by Cockburn and James Ridgeway, provides some of the best leftist commentary on American politics today. It's hard to see these people being coddled by Murdoch, a bottom-line guy, the way they were by Felker...
...newspapers, 13 magazines and dozens of lesser publications?had no sooner established himself as the owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting the takeover attempt, and even asked the Justice Department to examine the antitrust implications of the whole affair. After a pageant of dramatic late-night board meetings and a spirited ballet of lawyers swirling into court, however, New York magazine...
That spectacle would have made a King Kong-size story for New York, the small but influential weekly that celebrates the life-styles of the city's rich, its powerful and its houseplant owners. (Felker's editors indeed commissioned Cartoonist David Levine to draw a stinging cover portrait of Murdoch as one of those South American killer bees beloved of Murdoch-style tabloids; Felker thought better of it eventually.) But there almost was no new issue of New York. Nearly all the magazine's 125-member staff walked out in support of Felker, and only some last-minute help from...
...story of Murdoch's latest foray begins with Clay Felker, the gifted but erratic editor who virtually invented New York (see box). He first met Murdoch about four years ago at the Virginia home of Washington Post Chairman Katharine Graham. Felker takes credit for introducing Murdoch to Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, and after Murdoch bought Schiff's ailing Post, Felker offered advice on ways to improve the paper...