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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...
...result of a societal demand for more, faster, better. In the society of Harvard College, this can lead to a health crisis. But for what purpose? So what if you can write an okay paper in four hours? Wouldn't it be better to take your time and scoop your own ice cream...
...question facing the Webzines: Who needs them? Both Slate and Salon have provided an outlet for provocative writers (Camille Paglia, Jacob Weisberg), clever ideas (Slate's Clintometer, a running gauge of the President's chances of being forced out of office, lately replaced by the Starrometer) and the occasional scoop (Salon's report last week that a group with ties to the Rev. Jerry Falwell has paid $200,000 to people making allegations against Clinton--a charge Falwell's camp denies). But the barrage of 'zine commentary, columnizing and contrarian analyses of the latest media spins can be numbing...
Throughout the meal, Burger argued that it was unconscionable to scoop the court, that using information from clerks, whom he assumed were the source of our story, was tantamount to wiretapping the Supreme Court. Each time he launched into a new argument, he would consult a loose-leaf binder he had brought with him. In order to hide this from his dinner partners, he would rock his chair back and put his foot on the edge of our dining room table. And each time he rocked back, the Chief Justice of the United States of America advertised that...
...heard him out until Donovan said that he did not consider the scoop a breach and that we would continue to cover the court aggressively, good night. What Burger didn't know was that our source was one of his fellow Justices, who was angry with Burger for having held the decision from the previous fall to spare Richard Nixon political embarrassment...