Word: murdochized
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...makings of a lurid tabloid tale (as indeed it was), and it cried out to be told in screaming headlines: KILLER AMENDMENT ATTACKS PAPERS. At the heart of the drama was Rupert Murdoch, the saucy conservative press baron known to his critics as "the Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election...
...were drawn after the discovery of the Kennedy-backed rider to the budget bill that ordered the FCC to enforce strictly its rule against a person's owning both a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city. That turned out to be a pistol aimed directly at Murdoch, the only publisher who holds temporary waivers of the cross-ownership restriction...
KENNEDY'S VENDETTA screamed the headline of a biting front-page editorial in the Herald. "Was it something I said, Fat Boy?" asked Herald Columnist Howie Carr. IT'S WAR ON POST BUSTERS, added the Post. Underscoring the gravity of the controversy, Murdoch suspended his usual practice of shunning the limelight and went on Cable News Network's Crossfire program to make his case personally. "We're keeping the Boston Herald in spite of Senator Kennedy," he said, vowing that he would sell his small Boston TV station if necessary. Murdoch is not, however, willing to give...
Kennedy struck back at both Murdoch and his defenders. In a statement, he attacked Koch as a "Murdoch mouthpiece" and noted that the "best and quickest solution to this whole problem would be for Donald Trump to buy the New York Post." Trump, a real estate developer, has a flair for promotion and for getting under Koch's skin. Kennedy insists that his anti-Murdoch measure was designed to prevent the FCC from unilaterally repealing the cross- ownership rule the way it recently abolished the "fairness doctrine" requiring broadcasters to air opposing viewpoints. Murdoch had the "fix in" with...
Ironically, in 1957, Kennedy's father was instrumental in persuading the FCC to award a lucrative TV station to the former owners of the Herald. For his part, Murdoch bought the New York station in 1986 and the Boston station last year knowing that the law prohibited him from owning them as well as local newspapers in those cities. Before Kennedy intervened, Murdoch was seeking a way to win a permanent exemption from that rule...