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Four months in, Gannett's USA Today is moving on schedule...
...land of endless freeways and fast everything. Thus it might seem fertile territory for a newspaper that is billed by its editor as "a quick read" and that seeks an audience among frequent travelers and uprooted careerists who still care about news from home. Last week the Gannett Co.'s USA Today, the nation's first general-interest national daily, launched itself in sunny Southern California, in the midst of what its editors hoped was a nonsymbolic 1.2-in. rainstorm. The paper's $500,000-plus promotional campaign began with a party for nearly 1,000 guests...
...grand sweep into Los Angeles followed similarly ballyhooed arrivals into Portland, Ore., Denver, Minneapolis and five other regional markets. By April, USA Today will have entered five additional metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Miami and New York. Though Gannett officials are closely guarding the circulation results in individual markets, they claim to have a total of more than 400,000 street-sold copies a day. That would make the paper, whose first issue appeared in Washington on Sept. 15, at least the nation's 18th largest...
Many of the national pundits relied on regional newspaper and TV-station polls, which made some notable goofs. Surveys by the New York Daily News, Long Island's Newsday and a subsidiary of the Gannett News Service all gave Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mario Cuomo a final-week lead ranging from 9% to 13%; he won by 3%. The Illinois Governor's race brought on the worst polling failures: the Chicago Tribune found Republican Thompson ahead, 53% to 34%, and the Chicago Sun-Times had the race barely closer...
...media are intimately linked to the military-industrial-banking-complex, which has every thing to lose it as Brecht put it in Mother Courage, 'peace breaks out "'Morgan Guaranty Trust (MGT) holds top percentages of voting stock in the Washington Post (MGT is the third most powerful voter), the Gannett Newspapers. CBS, Time, and ABC. The bank also holds the leading percentages of voting stock in defense corporations such as United Technologies (where MGT holds the number-one voting position). General Dynamics (third position). Hughes and Northrup, and also makes major loans to Boeing, Lockheed, and Grumman...