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Viewed from almost any angle, the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain appears to make little economic or editorial sense.
Before the election, political cartoonists ridiculed the Kennedys' massed march on Washington. Cracked Satirist Del Close of Chicago's Second City: "If Teddy wins. Laos won't be the only country with three princes." Columnists were critical. "Make no mistake about it," wrote Scripps-How-ard'...
In larger cities, editorially competitive morning and evening papers sometimes cut costs by sharing the same mechanical plant, the same advertising, circulation and distribution departments. Frequently, the stronger of two papers in a big city buys the weaker one out?a device that Newhouse has used many times. William Randolph...
Early Chains. As a "monopolist," Newhouse has to give considerable ground to the early U.S. chain builders. Beginning in the 1880s, and teaming with one partner or another, a onetime Rushville, Ill., farm boy named Edward Wyllis Scripps bought or started 52 dailies as well as a news agency (United...
(4 of 10) the trimming is still going on. Since the Chief's death, the Hearst organization has added only one paper (the Albany, N.Y., Knickerbocker News) while eliminating five?the last only last week, when Hearst's 125-year-old Milwaukee Sentinel (circ. 192,899), weakened by a prolonged...