Word: presslords
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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...
...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...
...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...
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