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...YORK: Stock in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has gained 40 percent over the last 18 months -- which is pretty good. But Murdoch's archrival Time Warner (parent company of TIME Daily) is up 127 percent over the same period. Rupert wants to catch up, which is the main reason why News Corp. announced Monday that it would be offering 20 percent of its sexiest subsidiary, the Fox Group -- home to the Fox television network, the 20th Century Fox movie studio and the Los Angeles Dodgers -- to the public in a stock offering later this year. And this time, says...
Within a few weeks of the evening I accompanied my father to Rupert Stadium and saw Carl DeRose make history, nobody believed me. My attendance would often come up naturally in conversation. Charlie Adams might be talking about how you could distinguish a Buick Roadmaster from a Buick Super because the Roadmaster had four ornamental holes on the side of its hood instead of three, and I'd say, "Speaking of which, it was like those batters had holes in their bats when Carl DeRose was mowing them down. I happened to be there." Then somebody, maybe the deeply cynical...
Naturally, RUPERT MURDOCH gave the scoop that his marriage was on the rocks to Liz Smith of his very own New York Post, which politely said the Australian-born tycoon and ANNA, his wife of nearly 31 years, were trying to work it out. Somewhat less naturally, he broke it to most of his family at about the same time. How do the media cover the split of a guy who buys ink by the tankerful? Delicately. In Australia, the big tabloids, which are Murdoch-owned, ran teensy items on inside pages. In Britain, Murdoch's Sun, for whom this...
McGwire, who hit 58 last year, begins his first full season with St. Louis when the Cardinals open at Busch Stadium against the Rupert Murdoch-owned Los Angeles Dodgers. Griffey, the AL MVP, and the Seattle Mariners entertain AL champion Cleveland at the Kingdome...
...case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch's buy of the Dodgers...