Word: murdoch
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...Crimson interviewed Burchett before the Post published its article, and was thus unable to ask his response. He has, however, denied the charges completely; as far as I know, they have been printed only by papers owned by Murdoch and the John Birch Society. In addition, the Hearst papers have printed charges that Burchett was a KGB agent, as I reported...
Into this void springs Politicks & Other Human Interests, almost straight from the brain of Thomas B. Morgan, former editor of The Voice in the pre-Rupert Murdoch days, and once press secretary to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. Morgan had the good fortune to be a protege of Gardner Cowles during the last days of Look magazine, and maybe even more important, to marry Nelson Rockefeller's daughter. Morgan tried to buy The Nation last year, but that deal fell through, and so Politicks was born. It looks very promising...
...decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times into a frighteningly creditable imitation of the New York Daily News...
...steamy disclosures and Doonesbury's acid wit. Such censorship, however, can boomerang. The New York News last week quietly dropped six Doonesburys that poked fun at the paper for its breathless Son of Sam coverage. To be sure that the twitting of its rival be made public, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which has no contract with Doonesbury, ran two of the offending strips anyway...
...Esquire more timely-by shortening its Rip Van Winklesque lead time (the January issue is now in preparation) and doubling the magazine's frequency. Felker, 51, is tight-lipped about what else may mark his reign, but emphatic about what will not. Still smarting from his takeover by Murdoch, he has worked out an agreement with Harmsworth, whose firm is putting up most of the purchase price, that he will not be removed while Esquire is successful. Vows he: "What happened with New York will never happen again...