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Hearst's return to the tabloid format is a desperate, but plausible, effort to survive. The tabloid style, first practiced successfully in the U.S. by the New York Daily News (founded in 1919) and currently being carried to its irrational extreme by the New York Post under Rupert Murdoch, was modeled on Fleet Street's screaming dailies. The main features: short, punchy stories, heavy illustration, emphasis on sex, crime and gossip, and a smaller size for the harried, hurried commuter...
Construction on the Square portion of the $600 million project is now taking place mostly underground, and hence there will be fewer changes in traffic patterns through the congested area, Steven Murdoch, construction manager for the extension project, said last week...
...suburbs. Circulation dropped from 1.9 million in 1975 to 1.5 million last spring. To stanch the flow, the News and the parent Chicago Tribune Co. decided to seek a new readership among New York commuters and affluent Manhattan residents. They launched Tonight as a sophisticated answer to Rupert Murdoch's sensation-mongering New York Post, which had the afternoon market all to itself. Clay Felker, who had founded New York magazine, was brought in as editor, and scores of new writers, editors and graphics artists were recruited...
...News evidently picked a fight it could not win. Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the sensation-mongering New York Post (circ. 732,000), counterattacked with a new morning edition. Across town, the New York Times (circ. 931,000) was not impressed; it grew in circulation (up 16,000 since last year) and advertising linage (up from 57% to 60% of the three-paper total). "We're fat and sassy," says Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal. "If this is a war, we're not in the trenches...
...French and the British, not to mention the Germans and Japanese, were not about to disagree. In London, the mass-circulation dailies exploded in a chorus of adulation. FANTASTIC! exclaimed the Daily Mail, wow! trumpeted Rupert Murdoch's Sun. Most Britons, rather than showing concern over the shuttle's military potential, seemed to welcome it. Said the London Times: "The conquest of space is both a necessary expression of man's drive to explore and understand his environment and a military requirement if the West is not to be dominated by Soviet activity in space...