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...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 into a fray. The issues: truth, justice and the American Way. And power...
...Koch, a perennial Post favorite, led the charge against Kennedy. Saying that the Senator's action revealed a "character flaw," the mayor added in a veiled reference to Chappaquiddick, "In the dead of night, and then by the way not to immediately own up to it. We've seen that before...
Kennedy struck back at both Murdoch and his defenders. In a statement, he attacked Koch as a "Murdoch mouthpiece" and noted that the "best and quickest solution to this whole problem would be for Donald Trump to buy the New York Post." Trump, a real estate developer, has a flair for promotion and for getting under Koch's skin. Kennedy insists that his anti-Murdoch measure was designed to prevent the FCC from unilaterally repealing the cross- ownership rule the way it recently abolished the "fairness doctrine" requiring broadcasters to air opposing viewpoints. Murdoch had the "fix in" with...
...tall man in the dark double-breasted suit stood ramrod straight while Edward Koch introduced him at a city hall press conference. Then Richard R. Green, freshly appointed chancellor of the New York City school system, biggest (939,142 students) and arguably the baddest in all the land, said to the mayor, "Why don't you be seated?" Koch complied, like a schoolboy whom the principal has put in his place. And when His Honor tried later to rise, the Big Apple's new headmaster froze him with a turn of the hand...
...Koch said Kennedy had launched "a noxious assault on the First Amendment" aimed specifically at Murdoch when the Massachusetts Democrat got an amendment added, virtually unnoticed, to a spending bill last month...