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...been in a ferment over such new sound-alike low-calorie beers as Light and Lite. Even nicknames can create legal hassles. The owners of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune have just gone to court to stop alleged trademark infringement by a proposed new Manhattan daily called the Trib...
...longtime aide to former Senator James Buckley, intends to begin publishing what would be New York City's first new major daily in more than a decade. The paper will have a strikingly modern design, an initial pressrun of 200,000 and, perhaps, a hauntingly familiar name: the Trib...
Perhaps, because the old Trib did not go gently into that good nightside. The paper's overseas edition, the International Herald Tribune (circ. 118,000), is still published in Paris by IHT Corp., a joint venture of the New York Times, Washington Post and Whitney Communications, the old Trib's last owner. Accordingly, IHT Corp. is suing the owners of the new Trib for trademark infringement. The Trib, in turn, has sued IHT and the Times for harassment and antitrust violations, asking $7.5 million in treble damages. Saffir accuses IHT of trying to prevent his paper from appearing...
Indeed, any resemblance between the old Trib and the new entry is coincidental. Though Saffir has chosen as editor John Denson, seventyish, who also edited the Herald Tribune (from 1961 through 1962), the new Trib will lack one important characteristic of its predecessor: news. Denson has designed a stylish, magazine-like tabloid filled with canned features from syndicates and wire services, graced with an aggressively pro-business editorial page and almost devoid of breaking stories. Saffir defends that formula, which was first presented in a June 27 preview edition, on the grounds that the city's three major dailies...
That would be an impressive feat, considering that the Trib will miss most of New York's crucial fourth-quarter advertising season this year, and that the city's three dailies are fighting harder than ever among themselves for readers and advertisers. Saffir is not cowed by the competition. The morning News (circ. 2 million) and the afternoon Post (circ. 609,000), he says, are the "Chinese restaurants of journalism-an hour after you read them you're still hungry." As for the newly restyled Times (circ. 854,000), Saffir calls it "successful, fat, stuffy" and alleges...