Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following days, though, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 revealed he had urged Hollings to take measures against the Boston Herald, a holding of Australian born media mogul Rupert Murdoch which routinely blasts Kennedy and his liberal colleagues in the Massachusetts congressional delegation. The only principle on which Kennedy and Hollings acted was that it's okay for senators to put their personal political agendas before the public's interests as long as they do so behind closed doors...
ALTHOUGH the Herald, which made $1.5 million last year, is not the struggling paper Murdoch bought in 1982 and could certainly attract a buyer, Kennedy well knows that few would maintain it as a spirited conservative voice in a city that lacks them...
Most notable, though, has been its conservative editorial stands and willingness to take on politicians under its masthead. The Herald's list of past barbs against Kennedy filled a full page in yesterday's edition. The paper probably earned his special notice when it pointed out his "pretensions and blunders" during a illconsidered and over-hyped visit to South Africa before his 1980 presidential bid. The Globe was noticably quiet...
KENNEDY may succeed in domesticating the Herald. The New York Post may not fair as well...
Jimmy Breslin is happiest when he is making himself and others angry. He has successfully done so as a New York City newspaper columnist, a sporadic television personality, and the author of six novels. He got his big break in the early '60s at the New York Herald Tribune, where his colleagues included the Richmond dandy Tom Wolfe. The contrast between the two journalists was stark. Wolfe, elegant and soft-spoken, paralyzed his victims with a distinctive satire for which there is still no antidote. Breslin looked like a dented truck, talked loud and dirty, and went after his targets...