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When Murdoch bought 7% of Warner's stock last month for $98 million, he insisted that it was only an "investment." But that claim sounded suspicious coming from a grand acquisitor. Murdoch has already bought the New York Post (for $30 million), the Boston Herald ($1 million plus a share of future profits) and the Chicago Sun-Times ($90 million) and established a sprawling publishing empire with assets of $1.5 billion that now includes more than 80 newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Britain and Australia. Wall Street immediately began to wonder if Murdoch wanted to charge into...
...Hairston turned to the court of public opinion. He began by enlisting a new "old-boy network" of black journalists. As a result, a black reporter on the Dallas Times Herald went to the city editor, who assigned the story to Susan Milstein, then on the paper's courthouse beat. At first she was leery: "People call all the time saying, 'My brother is in jail and it's a case of mistaken identity.' " But she quickly became intrigued: "I could not understand why all of these middle-aged white engineers were so upset. They were...
...from universal, but much of it was expressed in gleeful, even vengeful terms. Further, many of the more thoughtful respondents seemed to reach beyond the battlefield issue to reflect deep, far-ranging resentment of the press. Linda Warren of West Hollywood, Calif., wrote to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner: "Journalists are so out of touch with majority values, such as honor, duty and service to country, that they are alienated from the very society that they purport to serve." Duane Bloom of Golden, Colo., argued in a letter to the Denver Post: "The media have frequently misused sensitive and explosive...
...Louisville Courier-Journal runs its admissions of error on the front page of the local news section under the headline "Beg Your Pardon"; its sister paper, the Louisville Times, uses the blunt designation "We Were Wrong." Some newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer and Miami Herald, mail out questionnaires to the subjects of certain news stories to ask whether they feel they were treated accurately and fairly. When the Los Angeles Times in April found that a business story had grossly misrepresented the cost overruns on Lockheed Corporation's C-5B military transport plane...
...print journalism, and is still praised by many editors as the only way to get certain kinds of stories, many of which serve the public well.* But standards are changing: the Pulitzer Prize board denied awards to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1979 and to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1982, at least partly because their reporters used false identities. The Sun-Times set up a saloon business and paid bribes to city officials; a Herald-Examiner reporter claimed to be an illegal alien and took a job in a garment-industry sweatshop...