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Look. I'll be quite frank with you. I really tried for a snappy, clever lead this week. First I thought empathy was the angle, and I ended up with "OhgodgodgodgodPeteSeegergodfivepapersgodfivepapersgodfivepapersohgodgodgod...," which I found reminiscent of the Grove Press|edition of Rupert Murdoch's|autobiography. Then I went for the|lighthearted and lyric. I rang...
After an unsuccessful bid to buy the Sunday Observer, Goldsmith established a beachhead in British journalism last January by paying Press Baron Rupert Murdoch $3 million for 35% of the non-voting shares in London's Beaverbrook newspaper chain, which includes the ailing daily Express. Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Now Sir Jimmy has struck at the other end of his London-Paris axis: for $6 million he has purchased a 45% share in L'Express, France's largest newsweekly. The magazine's founder, gadfly Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and his family will retain...
Some observers believe that Goldsmith wants to emulate Rupert Murdoch and create a publishing empire in the U.S. Jimmy denies it. "I'm not American, and I think people must wage war in their own country; one stands and fights where one is." That means war on two fronts since Goldsmith, whose mother was French, has dual nationality. So far, of course, he is only positioning himself for the battle...
...that system. Magazines like People, Cosmopolitan and New York probably have more in common with Hustler than they do with the New Republic; most journals sold in this country pander to less-than-noble interests. Larry Flynt is the illegitimate offspring of a Helen Gurley Brown and a Rupert Murdoch. Hustler makes money. Hustler makes sense, and this is why Hustler makes everyone nervous
...thing about the invasion of Manhattan by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press lord, is that so far the newspaper most improved by his arrival is not his Post but its tabloid rival the New York Daily News. Though it still has the largest daily circulation of any American paper, the News's circulation has been going down. Under the editorship of Michael O'Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing...