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...saucy conservative press baron known to his critics as "the Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election; Alfonse D'Amato, his scrappy colleague; and Ed Koch, the loquacious mayor who is ever eager to jump into a fray. The issues: truth, justice and the American Way. And power...
KENNEDY'S VENDETTA screamed the headline of a biting front-page editorial in the Herald. "Was it something I said, Fat Boy?" asked Herald Columnist Howie Carr. IT'S WAR ON POST BUSTERS, added the Post. Underscoring the gravity of the controversy, Murdoch suspended his usual practice of shunning the limelight and went on Cable News Network's Crossfire program to make his case personally. "We're keeping the Boston Herald in spite of Senator Kennedy," he said, vowing that he would sell his small Boston TV station if necessary. Murdoch is not, however, willing to give...
Koch, a perennial Post favorite, led the charge against Kennedy. Saying that the Senator's action revealed a "character flaw," the mayor added in a veiled reference to Chappaquiddick, "In the dead of night, and then by the way not to immediately own up to it. We've seen that before...
Kennedy struck back at both Murdoch and his defenders. In a statement, he attacked Koch as a "Murdoch mouthpiece" and noted that the "best and quickest solution to this whole problem would be for Donald Trump to buy the New York Post." Trump, a real estate developer, has a flair for promotion and for getting under Koch's skin. Kennedy insists that his anti-Murdoch measure was designed to prevent the FCC from unilaterally repealing the cross- ownership rule the way it recently abolished the "fairness doctrine" requiring broadcasters to air opposing viewpoints. Murdoch had the "fix in" with...
That defense was undermined last week when a story in the Washington Post (reprinted on Page One of the Des Moines Register) challenged the plausibility of Bush's denials. There were no dramatic revelations, just an elaboration of the circumstantial evidence that Bush was at too many meetings not to have sensed what was really happening. The fire storm caught Bush's top aides by surprise. "He's saying the same things Reagan said," argued one adviser. "Why shouldn't people believe...