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Maura has pursued a rock-music career with some seriousness, and works full time at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post as a gossip reporter. Both girls are swaddled in red. Out front, Cornelia's mother C.Z. has arrived, dressed in black. C.Z. is a gardening columnist for the Post...
...federal budget deficit shrinks by nearly one-third, as Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch purchases The Congressional Record. "Strom's Mom Scalded Tots," reads the banner headline of the first issue...
...Murdoch, 51, is best known in the U.S. for his raffish New York Post, a tabloid heavy on sex and crime that has almost doubled its circulation in six years to surpass the New York Times, 960,000 to 906,000. In London his Sun was the first daily to display a woman's bare breasts. Yet included among 100 other newspapers he owns around the world are the upper-brow Australian and the London Times. Says Murdoch: "The role of a newspaper is to inform, but in such a way that people...
...Forst, Herald editor since 1979, would probably agree. Last year he converted the paper to a zippy, insouciant tabloid that is perhaps more like the Post than any other non-Murdoch daily; it features vivid sports coverage, a populist-conservative editorial page and, emblazoned across the front page, hard-selling headlines sometimes 4 in. high. (Samples: TORTURE MODEL TEEN TO DEATH; POLS TAKE CARE OF SELVES.) The tabloid format boosted circulation by 48,000. Stephen Mindich, publisher of the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 140,000), is an admirer: "The Herald may hype stories, but the facts are correct...
Gays have recorded a few other victories that give them rights mimicking those of the nuclear family. In New York City, employees of Rupert Murdoch's leftish weekly Village Voice will soon be able to get health benefits for gay (and straight) lovers, with the company paying the cost. Last summer a New York appeals court ruled that a gay man could adopt his lover in a case where the partners involved were fighting an apartment lease that prohibited occupancy by nonfamily members. Noting that homosexual relations in private are no longer against the law in New York...