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...York City's fiercely competitive newspaper market, increasingly an oddity in the era of one-paper monopolies and bland corporate chains. Four papers -- the broadsheet New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) and three tabloids, the Post (504,000), the New York Daily News (1.2 million) and New York Newsday (230,000) -- managed to make it through the booming 1980s. But now the city's economy is in a tailspin, and the tabloids are being dragged down with it. "I don't think there's room for more than two papers in town," says Gary Hoenig, editor of News...
...black of mourning for her husband, who died last September in exile in Hawaii. As she enters, eyes are inexorably drawn to her feet. What cake was to Marie Antoinette, shoes are to Imelda, who had 2,700 pairs in her closet in the presidential residence in Manila. Newsday runs a daily shoe- watch photo, but she now tends to wear modest black pumps...
Butts had a point. Since January, Brooklyn's Flatbush section had been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocers that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture...
...Walters raising her glass to toast Ivana. Only in this atmosphere does it seem unsurprising that a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (John O'Connor of New York) would publicly discuss the pastoral visit of one of the separating partners in a marriage. CARDINAL TO TRUMPS: PRAY, chimed Newsday on Page One. People who choose to share their private lives with gossip columnists and debate the terms of their divorce in newspapers get what they deserve...
Clamoring to get into the Trump affray were such professional tattletales and partygoers as Aileen Mehle, veteran writer of the Post's "Suzy" column, syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, plus Smith's Daily News colleague William Norwich, New York Newsday's James Revson and a phalanx of others from all over. Even London dailies were grabbing at the story, pursuing the angle of Ivana's brief first marriage to an Austrian ski pal. We're not talking just the wacky supermarket scandal sheets, whose more enticing headlines last week included JAMES DEAN IS ALIVE!, CHEERS STAR'S FATHER...