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...newspapers, death and estate taxes have led to another apparent inevitability: sale to a chain. Last week, however, the 109-year-old Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (circ. 174,000) reversed the trend. Gannett, the nation's biggest newspaper group (86 dailies), sold the money-losing Tribune to Journalist Robert Maynard, 45, who is, like 47% of Oakland's residents, black. Said Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth: "We had other prospective buyers, but we felt it desirable for the community to have a dedicated local owner...
...Owner Maynard has been at the Tribune as editor since 1979 and publisher since 1981. He believes he is the first black to hold any of his positions at a large metropolitan daily with a primarily (62%) white readership. But he dismisses his ground-breaking status as "one of the world's more boring statistics." Says he: "The issue is the quality of the paper, not the color of the executive...
...story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were limited to a question buried in the fifth paragraph: "Are they real?" Said Newsweek Editor Maynard Parker, who supervised the package: "The advertising department had earlier deadlines than ours, but I do not feel that the ads misrepresent what is in the magazine...
...radio personality Dave Maynard gets what he's been lobbying for, Massachusetts car buyers will have significantly more protection in making their purchases...
...they have it in Connecticut, why don't they protect the new car buyer here?" Maynard said in an interview Saturday. He added that he had received 500 letters from listeners with horror stories about cars they had bought...