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...lines of, "Sailor Who Turned Into a Girl Witch"; whose New York Post in 1977 ran front-page coupons to draft Ed Koch for governor; and whose editorial instincts often appear geared as much towards winning exclusives as towards Wingo!, whose daily jack pots grow almost as fast as Murdoch's holding in the American press...
...addition to the Post and the Sun-Times (which he officially will take over in January), Murdoch owns the Boston Herald, The Village Voice, New York magazine. The Star, and a handful of Texas newspapers. But the Chicago Story isn't as simple as one of Murdoch's headlines...
...this decision been mine alone to make," Marshall Field said, "I probably would not have taken this action." For his part, Murdoch promises that, "basically, [1] neither plan nor intend any substantial changes in the newspaper." Murdoch may take Wingo into the Midwest; he may add splashier news coverage and a few pictures of scantily-clad women. But possible apprehension over Murdoch's latest move overlooks several facts about contemporary American journalism, Murdoch's track record, and the Sun-Times itself. A feeling that this Australian may not be that bad after all centers on a simple question. Which came...
WHEN HE BOUGHT the Post in 1976. Murdoch said. "The role of a newspaper is to inform, but in a way that people buy your paper. It's not for us to say what public taste ought to be." Granted, a difference exists between catering and pandering to the public's interests. But in seven years, Murdoch has doubled the Post's circulation to nearly I million readers; in just a few months, he has raised the Herald's by more than 100,000. Whether or not those papers lost readers in the process seems beside the point. Observers...
...Murdoch's journalistic philosophy also shows positive signs. He allows his publications a certain freedom--Alexander Cockburn, the media critic for Murdoch's Village Voice, often directs his jibes at Murdoch's Post. Moreover, perhaps due to Murdoch's concern with success, he does not level all his publications to the same bleak plain. If the New York Post often runs trash, then New York offers "classy trash"--to use writer Richard Reeve's description of the magazine's content. Yet Reeves offered that appraisal before Murdoch owned New York. And only a cursory examination of recent New York stories...