Word: murdoch
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...John Brown then hired an attorney to solicit bids for their story, insisting that bidders keep the details-including the parents' identity -quiet until the baby was bom. A number of British and American publications submitted bids, among them the Enquirer and a representative of Publisher Rupert Murdoch (the New York Post, the Star and the London Sun). The three U.S. commercial television networks were asked to bid on North American broadcasting rights, but all declined. Finally, on July 9, the Browns accepted a high bid of nearly $600,000 for world print rights from Associated Newspapers, owner...
...editorial integrity depends on its ability to stay dispassionate. The paper that abandons this course--the one that adopts a "please the reader" philosophy in relation to its news policy, instead of leaving it on the feature page where it belongs--the one that subscribes to the Rupert Murdoch school, is the one that merits contempt. The paper that realizes that it may actually serve the reader best by running an unpopular story is the one that deserves high praise...
...primary fight, used the arrest to try to peddle his floundering law-and-order re-election campaign; although he failed, the election finally went to another to another candidate who played to the lingering public panic with repeated calls for the re-instatement of the death penalty. And Rupert Murdoch, the Australian publisher of the Post--whose spectacular lack of taste is matched only by his spectacular success in selling newspapers--enjoyed an even bigger bonanza. While the Post's front-page fantasies about the killings attracted hundreds of thousands of readers throughout the summer, Murdoch hit the jackpot when...
...REST of the book, then, is the stuff of which B-movies are made: cardboard characters, dirty cops on the make, and lots of healthy, Type-O blood. Even those scenes that could have been meaningful, such as the portrayal of Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the scoop-hungry New York press corps, degenerate into near-slanderous caricatures, with only the Breslin-character retaining his integrity. Funny thing...
...paper might have lasted longer if an expected newspaper strike had temporarily shut the city's three larger dailies, leaving the nonunion Trib the biggest daily in town. A lockout is still a possibility this week at Rupert Murdoch's Post, but the prospect of a citywide strike has receded. As it was, the Trib even missed the story of its own death. Unable to come up with the check for roughly $23,000 that the paper's New Jersey printer demanded each night before rolling the presses, Saffir canceled what would have been the self-proclaimed...