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Once he became Speaker, his adversaries began holding him to the same ethical standards he so righteously enforced as the House proctor. During his first months in the job, the Democrats hounded him for his lavish $4.5 million book deal with Rupert Murdoch, to the point that he settled for a $1 advance, plus royalties. By last spring there were no fewer than five ethics charges pending against him, and now the ethics committee has recommended bringing in outside counsel...
...parties, had settled on a good news/bad news outcome. By a unanimous vote, it cleared Gingrich of three charges and slapped his wrist on three others. And of the $4.5 million advance for his recent book that he accepted, then declined, from the publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, a media magnate with magnate-style business before Congress, the committee declared it unseemly but within the rules...
...give them a leg up with local coverage, but the head start that Turner has may be insurmountable." ABC will seek to distribute the all-news programming using both cable and direct satellite, as well as new delivery systems developed by telephone companies. Last week, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, complaining that CNN had become too liberal, announced that he too intended to start his own all-news network...
...pieces of the company (notably CBS's publishing and music divisions), instituted drastic cost-cutting measures and shied away from paying big bucks at key junctures. Two years ago, CBS lost its perennial Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. football franchise when it was outbid for the games by Rupert Murdoch's Fox network. A few months later the network lost eight important affiliates to Fox when Murdoch acquired the 12-station group owned by New World Communications--stations that Tisch had earlier passed up a chance to buy. To replace the stations, CBS has been forced to switch to weaker UHF outlets...
...Rupert Murdoch's new conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, published its first issue in September. It is the self-styled voice of the conservative revolution. The headline emblazoned across the magazine's cover was PERMANENT OFFENSE. But the most notable article was a virtual endorsement of Powell for President by William Kristol, the Standard's editor and the G.O.P.'s most influential strategist. So much for the revolution...