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With a single stroke of the pun, Clive Barnes once had the power to make or break a Broadway show. But the mighty dance-and-drama critic of the New York Times was stripped of his theater post last March. Enter Australian Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, who hired Barnes for his afternoon paper, the New York Post. Says the Oxford-educated Barnes: "Anyone attached to the New York Times has a kind of instant credibility and instant glamour. One wonders how much that is a cloak bestowed by the paper and how much...
...Crimson interviewed Burchett before the Post published its article, and was thus unable to ask his response. He has, however, denied the charges completely; as far as I know, they have been printed only by papers owned by Murdoch and the John Birch Society. In addition, the Hearst papers have printed charges that Burchett was a KGB agent, as I reported...
Into this void springs Politicks & Other Human Interests, almost straight from the brain of Thomas B. Morgan, former editor of The Voice in the pre-Rupert Murdoch days, and once press secretary to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. Morgan had the good fortune to be a protege of Gardner Cowles during the last days of Look magazine, and maybe even more important, to marry Nelson Rockefeller's daughter. Morgan tried to buy The Nation last year, but that deal fell through, and so Politicks was born. It looks very promising...
...decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times into a frighteningly creditable imitation of the New York Daily News...
...steamy disclosures and Doonesbury's acid wit. Such censorship, however, can boomerang. The New York News last week quietly dropped six Doonesburys that poked fun at the paper for its breathless Son of Sam coverage. To be sure that the twitting of its rival be made public, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which has no contract with Doonesbury, ran two of the offending strips anyway...