Word: ownership
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Thank you for your coverage on what's happening to the newspaper ownership in New York City. Everyone here in the Midwest waits breathlessly for any news about New York City. It's so relevant to our lives...
Murdoch's purchase of the three magazines may be part of a disturbing new trend--the consolidation of American magazines under a central ownership the way American daily newspapers began to huddle in chains during the 1950s. During that period, a morning newspaper might buy its afternoon rival to consolidate costs, creating monopoly, or what A. J. Liebling called "profitable stagnation." The news that gets reported may not be all that's fit to print; sometimes it may be, like Pravda, what the monopolist decides is news...
...Bicentennial Essay, that the U.S. Secretary of State regards the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo as a "triumph of diplomacy." Force of arms, not diplomacy, was the means by which the U.S. stripped Mexico of half of its national territory. Today the U.S.'s regional hegemony depends on ownership of advanced technology, "credit diplomacy," preferential tariffs, import quotas, trade embargoes, and the politics of profit repatriation...
According to Greek law, daughters can even sue fathers who ignore the dowry obligation. The woman retains ownership of her dowry-but the husband has all the rights to its use. In the words of one feminist critic, he "spends, invests, does with the interest as he pleases. The dowry puts the woman on the auction block." On the other hand, it can also provide a beleaguered wife with some measure of leverage in her marriage, since she gets back the original stake in the event of a divorce...
...Murdoch's most important new venture, the few changes wrought so far at the somnolent New York Post during his first week of ownership are mostly benign. He has picked a new editor: Australian-born TIME Senior Editor Edwin Bolwell, a former New York Timesman and Toronto Star managing editor. Murdoch has added a distinctive dark red banner across the top of the front page and banished ads from the first seven pages. Page six has been reserved for a mild stew of short, gossipy items?including last week's tongue-in-cheek rewrite of an Associated Press report that...