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...covers Chicago's tumultuous Democratic machine fairly. Among the paper's stars are Columnists Bob Greene, who specializes in offbeat portraits of ordinary people, and Mike Royko, a Chicago institution who jumped to the Trib along with about a dozen others when Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch took over its tabloid rival, the Sun-Times...
...club yesterday decided to reaffirm the 1978 award, rejecting the suggestion of Emily De Muff '68 to take away the award because Field sold the paper to Murdoch...
...bothered me that somebody who had delivered such a blow to the civic community should have his name on a list of Harvard Award recipients," De Huff said yesterday. "The Sun-Times has already deteriorated drastically since Murdoch took it over...
...flamboyant Murdoch is knows for his propensity to buy failing newspapers and turn them into financial successes by cut- ting costs dramatically and running sensational stories. He has been criticized by some for the low quality of his papers...
...club's board of directors apparently decided that Field had done no great sin in selling his newspaper to Murdoch, voting overwhelmingly to allow him to keep his award...