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...anyone has been campaigning for James, it has been the media. Although James has played in only 15 games, he has already been featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, N.Y. Times, N.Y. Post, N.Y. Daily News and Newsday...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Scintillating in Class and on the Court | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...screaming headlines: KILLER AMENDMENT ATTACKS PAPERS. At the heart of the drama was Rupert Murdoch, the saucy conservative press baron known to his critics as "the Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election; Alfonse D'Amato, his scrappy colleague; and Ed Koch, the loquacious mayor who is ever eager to jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Boy vs. the Dirty Digger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

KENNEDY'S VENDETTA screamed the headline of a biting front-page editorial in the Herald. "Was it something I said, Fat Boy?" asked Herald Columnist Howie Carr. IT'S WAR ON POST BUSTERS, added the Post. Underscoring the gravity of the controversy, Murdoch suspended his usual practice of shunning the limelight and went on Cable News Network's Crossfire program to make his case personally. "We're keeping the Boston Herald in spite of Senator Kennedy," he said, vowing that he would sell his small Boston TV station if necessary. Murdoch is not, however, willing to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Boy vs. the Dirty Digger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Ironically, in 1957, Kennedy's father was instrumental in persuading the FCC to award a lucrative TV station to the former owners of the Herald. For his part, Murdoch bought the New York station in 1986 and the Boston station last year knowing that the law prohibited him from owning them as well as local newspapers in those cities. Before Kennedy intervened, Murdoch was seeking a way to win a permanent exemption from that rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Boy vs. the Dirty Digger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...antitrust clause that forbids the Federal Communications Commission from allowing Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch to keep the New York Post and Boston Herald as well as television stations in each city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget's Hidden Horrors | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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