Word: murdoch
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...goes according to plan, print-starved New Yorkers will wake one morning this week to find that yet another daily has apparently joined Rupert Murdoch's Post in reaching a separate peace with the city's striking press unions. The 24-page paper, selling for a rather extortionate newsstand price of $1 (the result of a costlier-than-expected union settlement, the paper explains in a frontpage notice), looks just like the Times, only more...
...Murdoch break ranks? At first he was named by publishers as their negotiator-they wanted the Aussie out in the open where they could keep an eye on him. That role troubled Murdoch, especially after Theodore Kheel, the labor lawyer and supermediator, was called in by the unions, with assent from the News and the Times, to get negotiations moving when they seemed stalled. Murdoch saw Kheel less as an observer than an active arbiter, who might dictate terms inimical to the Post. "They put him out in front to take all the heat, then they cut him down from...
...Murdoch was discreetly silent about his motives last week, but there was no shortage of taproom psychoanalysis about why he went his own way. It had been said that he would make permanent the New York Daily Metro, a strike paper he financed, then fold the Post and go after the morning markets controlled by the Times and the News. Yet the Metro died the day the Post resumed publishing. Still, Murdoch men are not ruling out a future morning tabloid, probably along the lines of his spicy and sensational London Sun. It was also said that Murdoch rushed into...
Grand and nefarious schemes aside, one of Murdoch's most powerful incentives for settling early is the galleys upon galleys of Columbus Day advertising that the Post carried in its first post-strike" editions-so many ads, that over the weekend the Post emerged with its first Sunday edition, which may become a fixture when all the city's presses are rolling again...
That may happen as early as this week, or as late as next month. With Maverick Murdoch back on the streets, pressure is increased on the Times and the News to resume publishing. But those newspapers seem determined to strive for a long-term solution to the press-manning issue. Says a Times executive: "The achievement of our objective is of overriding importance." All well and good. But because of Murdoch's "me-tooism," the other papers find themselves in the odd position of negotiating for him over the roar of his presses and the jingle of his advertising...