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...often said to have begun on Nov. 22, 1963, lingered messily into the '70s, through Kent State, the Pentagon papers case, the McGovern campaign, the long, slow-motion parallel collapses of the Nixon presidency and the South Vietnamese Republic. The Symbionese Liberation Army and the kidnaping of Patty Hearst also belonged in spirit...
That day never came. Though United Press-which merged with the Hearst chain's International News Service in 1958 to form United Press International-has gained ground on Associated Press over the years, it has always been No. 2. Even worse, U.P.I. has lost $17 million in the past 18 years, including $2.5 million last year. (A.P. is a nonprofit cooperative and usually comes close to breaking even.) For years, U.P.I.'s possible demise was a popular taproom topic among journalists...
...wire service back in the black by ripping a page from A.P.'s ticker: turning U.P.I. into a cooperative of sorts. U.P.I. has invited more than 100 of its largest newspaper and broadcasting clients to become limited partners in the wire service. Under the scheme, Scripps and Hearst would retain 10% of the new company and stay on as managing partners. The remaining 90% would be sold in 45 shares, and no single client could own more than 10% of the firm. If successful, the restructuring would provide U.P.I. with as much as $4.5 million in new working capital...
...Paris in 1958 and become a star in French New Wave films such as Breathless after her amateurish performance in Saint Joan made her name a synonym for miscasting in the U.S. The report was picked up by Newsweek, a French publication, Minute, and American Weekly, a former Hearst newspaper supplement. Soon after reading the account, Seberg, who by then was seven months pregnant, went into labor and three days later gave birth to a dead baby, a white female...
True, the press still features triviality, gossip, scandal. It always will. Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun-like Hearst and Pulitzer quite a phrasemaker and an exemplar of the era-declared that the Sun could not be blamed for reporting what God had permitted to happen. That was only partly a copout. While the press should not pander to base or grisly appetites, or merely "give the people what they want," neither should it be expected to change human nature (if that concept is still admissible). America's mainstream publications today, for all their faults...