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Ever since he started the Hearstian buying spree that made his News Corp. the world's most diverse media company, rivals have been waiting for Rupert Murdoch to overreach and fall. They mocked his ambition to become the first press lord to bestride three continents: Europe, North America and his native Australia, where his holdings account for 60% of total daily-newspaper circulation. They belittled his free-spending plunge into book publishing. They scoffed when he spent more than $2 billion for seven U.S. TV stations, plus a movie studio to provide programs, for his high-risk start...
...years he was one of Britain's most respected newspaper editors, first of the Sunday Times of London and then of the daily Times. But in 1982 Harold Evans was forced out after a much publicized clash with the paper's new owner, Australian-born press mogul Rupert Murdoch. Last week the media wheel of fortune took an ironic turn. In a shake-up that had the New York City publishing world abuzz, Evans was named publisher of Random House, the nation's largest producer of trade books. Among his first assignments: editing the memoirs of Rupert Murdoch...
...Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will attract writers by the score." Will this hard-charging new chief ratchet up the best-seller wars another notch? It's a story line even Murdoch would enjoy...
...Life, a quarterly published by Fox TV's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is almost sweet by comparison. The inaugural issue features an article by syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry, the baby-boomer laureate, and at least a dozen other stories ape his smirky, adolescent style. The magazine exudes this attitude most succinctly in a column by Mike Kelly, who deplores the emergence of a less macho, more candid style of masculinity: "I don't know any New Men. I don't know any women who know any New Men. I don't even know any women who want to know...
...same period in 1989. But while nobody doubts that the Times will continue, optimism about the tabloids is hard to find. The Post, a mix of catty gossip columns, conservative editorials and chest-thumping sports reporting, hasn't earned a penny in nearly two decades. Press lord Rupert Murdoch lost $150 million during the 12 years he owned the paper. He was threatening to close it down in 1988, when Kalikow, wealthy and eager to join the glamorous world of publishing, bought it from him for $37 million. Vowing to preserve the city's last conservative editorial voice, Kalikow pumped...