Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aptly point out in your story on the Black Prince of the Press, Rupert Murdoch [Jan. 17], the only decent newspaper he publishes, The Australian, hardly keeps its head above water. The Sunday Australian, which he used to publish, was even better but, like a lot of other papers that are too good for the public, it went under...
...Murdoch not only keeps his head above water but walks on it because he gives people what they want...
...Digger Murdoch is showing Americans what most of them implicitly believe-that money talks...
...enhance that titH She has consolidated her control of the Post Co. by forcing out President Larry H. Israel, 57, and asking the company's directors to combine the position with her own. Graham. 59, is also seeking to acquire another magazine. She lost out to Australian Rupert Murdoch in bidding last month for New York (TIME cover. Jan. 17), but she is now trying to buy The New Yorker, that genteel and profitable weekly. Said a Post Co. insider. "It depends on when they want to sell...
...main loser in the Murdoch drama, Editor Felker spent last week exploring possible new journalistic ventures and several offers of large-scale financial backing. He also declined what he called a "very alluring" job offer. In addition to $1.5 million for his shares in the New York Magazine Co. and a continuation of his old annual salary of $120,000 for three years, Felker won the right to start a new magazine, and he has already taken office space in the slightly rundown town house where New York began its independent existence nearly a decade ago. As a keepsake...