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...going the way of ocean liners. Trouble among newspapers is more selective. Most papers, particularly in suburbs and in smaller cities, prosper. Often they are monopolies, "the only game in town." The endangered species is the second paper, the one that gives the community an alternative voice. John Morton, a newspaper analyst, reports that at least eleven major papers are in trouble, and predicts that in the years to come there will be no second newspaper anywhere, "with the possible exception of New York and perhaps Chicago...
Some of the second papers now in deepest trouble were slowest to abandon the autocratic attitudes that gave them their character. Morton thinks that troubled second newspapers suffer from decisions they made or failed to make decades ago. Perhaps it is no accident that the papers Hearst owns in Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle are the troubled second papers in those cities. "The Hearst papers have been on a downhill slide for 30 years and are now a third-rate chain," says Allen H. Neuharth. The arrogance of Neuharth's remark comes from his success in building...
...Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook), agreed to invest up to $30 million in the Bulletin in the next four years "if labor will join hands and help." Some think it may be too late. "In the long run, it's not going to make any difference," says John Morton, a publishing analyst at John Muir...
...also considered turning it into a racy tabloid, but quickly rejected that idea as being contrary to the company's editorial tradition. Moreover, it is far from certain that such a drastic change in the Star's character would have succeeded commercially. Says Washington Publishing Analyst John Morton: "There wasn't any real solution to the Star's problems...
...suit was filed by Morton Halperin, who, as an aide to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, was suspected of leaking information about the secret bombing of Cambodia. The tap on Halperin's home phone lasted 21 months, long after he had left the Government and joined the campaign staff of Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. No evidence was produced that Halperin had leaked classified information, and his lawyers charged that the eavesdropping was for political rather than security purposes. Nixon's lawyers claimed that a President should be immune from suits arising from his official acts...