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...News evidently picked a fight it could not win. Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the sensation-mongering New York Post (circ. 732,000), counterattacked with a new morning edition. Across town, the New York Times (circ. 931,000) was not impressed; it grew in circulation (up 16,000 since last year) and advertising linage (up from 57% to 60% of the three-paper total). "We're fat and sassy," says Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal. "If this is a war, we're not in the trenches...
...French and the British, not to mention the Germans and Japanese, were not about to disagree. In London, the mass-circulation dailies exploded in a chorus of adulation. FANTASTIC! exclaimed the Daily Mail, wow! trumpeted Rupert Murdoch's Sun. Most Britons, rather than showing concern over the shuttle's military potential, seemed to welcome it. Said the London Times: "The conquest of space is both a necessary expression of man's drive to explore and understand his environment and a military requirement if the West is not to be dominated by Soviet activity in space...
...that our yellow press is sensational arises from such external accidents as large type or lurid headlines [which] are soothing to people in a dimly lighted train." It is likely that the Times, having survived in a venerable fashion for the past 75 years, will be able to survive Rupert Murdoch...
...miracle diets, life-after-death tales and celebrity muck. A fact-checking department was developed in its Lantana, Fla., headquarters, and all gossip items had to be backed up by two independent sources-who were often paid by the Enquirer. But faced with flagging sales and increased competition from Rupert Murdoch's racy rising Star (circ. 3.5 million), Pope soon ordered up more pizazz. The outcome of the Burnett case and other suits may well determine whether he ordered up too much...
Britons were horrified last month when Rupert Murdoch, the sensation-mongering Australian publisher, bought London's revered though unprofitable Times newspapers. Now another Fleet Street stalwart, the 190-year-old Sunday Observer, has been sold to an improbable new owner. He is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, the chief executive of a $5 billion. London-based conglomerate called Lonrho Ltd.; his secretiveness and taste for takeovers have led him to be described by a former Prime Minister as "the unacceptable face of capitalism...