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...London Sunday Observer--which subsequently was sold to Atlantic-Richfield for one dollar, mostly to keep it out of Murdoch's hands. He also made a similarly unsuccessful attempt to purchase the ailing Washington Star. It thus came as no great surprise when Murdoch bought the tabloid Post from 73-year-old publisher Schiff last November for $31 million...
...most deceitful element in this film has nothing to do with its characters. This dishonesty involves Network's explanation of why the news often proves innocuous and politically uncritical, why it becomes sensational ("straight tabloid," in Christenson's vocabulary) in its human interest material and photo news stories...
...biggest drawback to legal gambling is clearly the taxes that must be paid. The lottery-winning "millionaire" who makes TV news shows and tabloid front pages is lucky if he nets about $30,000 a year?and then has to fight off hordes of hungry relatives, strapped friends, charities and con men who expect him to share the largesse (see box). Starting in January, anybody who wins $1,000 or more on any lottery or by betting on or off any track will have 20% of his payoff withheld against taxes. Snaps New York OTB Chairman Paul Screvane: "Illegal gambling...
Right now, however, Ergo is a weekly tabloid distributed to Harvard, MIT, Boston University and Wellesley with a circulation of 5000. It was established in 1969 in reaction to the appearance of a leftist student newspaper that has since folded. The paper's philosophic bent, after a wishy-washy period when the staff members ranged from Republicans to utopian socialists, has focused on objectivism. This offshoot of libertarianism calls for a society where a person's rights to do whatever he pleases are limited only when he exerts or threatens force against another person...
...MORE]. And hence, just as every three-bit show biz con artist feels the urge to imprint their feet into the drip-dry cement outside Grumman's Chinese Theater, for posterity, that is, and the virtue of newness, Kramer's facelifting and wholesale suburban renewal of [MORE]. From tabloid to magazine, from just covering the print press to umbrella-ing anything that massages--T.V., advertising, publishing, film, and sundry offspring...