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...somewhere around 3.5 million and is quite possibly the worst newspaper in the world. In this country, Murdoch controls The National Star, modeled after The National Enquirer (supermarket checkout aisle journalism), and the San Antonio News-Express. This week Murdoch is splashed across the covers of both Time and Newsweek, on one as King Kong and the other under the headline PRESSLORD TAKES CITY, a true cultural hero in his own right, bigger even the Bruce Springsteen, the last face accorded the dual cover honor...
That is not how the power game has turned out for Editor Felker, 51. Last week two of the biggest potentates in publishing battled for the feat of Clay. The combatants: Katharine Graham, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post Co., which in addition to the D.C. daily owns Newsweek, the Trenton Times and four TV stations; and Rupert Murdoch, 45, buccaneering Australian proprietor of ten major newspapers and eleven magazines-including, as of last week, New York City's afternoon daily the Post, where he is editor in chief. Up for grabs: control of the umbrella New York...
Robert Scheer, who did the celebrated "adulterer in my heart" interview with Carter for Playboy, Robert Schrum, the speechwriter who quit the Carter campaign in a much publicized incident last spring, and Tom DeFrank, Newsweek's Ford campaign correspondent, all took turns immolating their chosen profession...
...DeFrank, Newsweek's Ford campaign correspondent, said the media basically ignored the significant issues of the campaign...
Weinstein said he was not alarmed by the Newsweek cover story, "Why Johnny Can't Write," that caused such a furor in educational circles last winter. He disagreed with Newsweek's thesis that students' writing troubles are worse now than ever before, and pointed to a series of articles from previous eras to prove his point: a 1961 article in Look also titled "Why Johnny Can't Write," a report entitled "General Education for a Free Society," which in 1945 expressed precisely the same sentiments as the Newsweek story; and a 1912 issue of the English Journal which also described...