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...decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times into a frighteningly creditable imitation of the New York Daily News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Paper Waste | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Killer Kangaroo Ravages New York | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Europeans who are suspicious of the Marshall Plan-or actively hostile -are card-holding Commies. Some are Communist dupes who find it easier to accept the Kremlin's line: "a plan for the enslavement of the peoples of working Europe by the American imperialists." Others, like British Presslord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, have a different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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