Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murdoch on Fleet Street
...yellow press is sensational arises from such external accidents as large type or lurid headlines [which] are soothing to people in a dimly lighted train." It is likely that the Times, having survived in a venerable fashion for the past 75 years, will be able to survive Rupert Murdoch...
...diets, life-after-death tales and celebrity muck. A fact-checking department was developed in its Lantana, Fla., headquarters, and all gossip items had to be backed up by two independent sources-who were often paid by the Enquirer. But faced with flagging sales and increased competition from Rupert Murdoch's racy rising Star (circ. 3.5 million), Pope soon ordered up more pizazz. The outcome of the Burnett case and other suits may well determine whether he ordered up too much...
Rowland, who wanted to buy the Sunday Times, promises a time of "sleeves-up change" for the "tired" Observer. Says he: "I like competition and so does Mr. Murdoch. Let's see what happens...
Britons were horrified last month when Rupert Murdoch, the sensation-mongering Australian publisher, bought London's revered though unprofitable Times newspapers. Now another Fleet Street stalwart, the 190-year-old Sunday Observer, has been sold to an improbable new owner. He is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, the chief executive of a $5 billion. London-based conglomerate called Lonrho Ltd.; his secretiveness and taste for takeovers have led him to be described by a former Prime Minister as "the unacceptable face of capitalism...