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...paper might have lasted longer if an expected newspaper strike had temporarily shut the city's three larger dailies, leaving the nonunion Trib the biggest daily in town. A lockout is still a possibility this week at Rupert Murdoch's Post, but the prospect of a citywide strike has receded. As it was, the Trib even missed the story of its own death. Unable to come up with the check for roughly $23,000 that the paper's New Jersey printer demanded each night before rolling the presses, Saffir canceled what would have been the self-proclaimed...
...your story "The Case of the Purloined Pages" [Feb. 27], you state that Publisher Rupert Murdoch signed a secrecy agreement before seeing a summary of H.R. Haldeman's book, and that an unauthorized detail from the book then appeared in the New York Post and New York magazine. Not only did Mr. Murdoch never sign an agreement, as you reported; he never saw the book in any form...
...many observers, the worst aspect of Rupert Murdoch's head-first plunge into the New York media biz two years ago was the possible impact of his sex-and-violence, paper-hawking outlook on the Village Voice. So far it hasn't been too bad, although the past few weeks exhibit a discouraging trend. Certainly the damage hasn't been as complete as the devastation Murdoch brought to the New York Post and New York magazine. In the first year of the mad magnate's reign, the Voice went for hotter, sexier cover stories, but then came a period during...
...sign a secrecy agreement before receiving his copy. Editors of the Times Syndicate offered serialization rights only to publications here and abroad that would sign secrecy agreements before inspecting a summary at Times Books' New York offices. One of the publishers who signed and saw was Australian Rupert Murdoch; after an unauthorized detail from the book appeared in his New York Post and New York magazine two weeks ago, the syndicate threatened legal action and the disclosures stopped. Meanwhile, a false story spread that the book was being typeset in Kingsport, Tenn...
Rising, Bowen was destined to be the last of the Anglo-Irish writers, a lively breed that included Sheridan, Swift and Oscar Wilde. Bowen also brushed against Bloomsbury during her early years as a writer. Writes Glendinning: "She is the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark...