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Murdoch, the son of a newspaperman, professes to love print -- "It's going to be around a long time after me, I hope" -- but concedes that his vision of the 21st century has more to do with cathode rays and satellites than with ink and paper. "Certainly in the medium future it appears there will be more growth in TV than in global print," he says. "We are focusing our expansion in electronics until we've got a better balance in our portfolio...
Author Darryl Brock starts off with an oboe passage. His hero, Sam Fowler, a San Francisco newspaperman in his early 30s, is gloomy from a bad divorce and muzzy from a slight drinking problem. He has flown to Cleveland to bury his father, who died there alone, and has decided to meander back home on an Amtrak train. Somewhere in northern Ohio, the train rolls to an unscheduled stop on a siding, and Fowler steps off into the summer heat to clear his head. When he turns, the 20th century Amtrak diesel has vanished, and a woodburning steam train -- what...
...survival. The reason: while daily newspaper readership has stagnated all across the U.S. in the past decade, Sunday readership has grown. Sunday editions account for 40% to 50% of the advertising revenue of many dailies. "It's a Hobson's choice," says Gary Hoenig, a veteran New York newspaperman who recently left Newsday to edit a new industry trade magazine called NewsInc. "The Post can't succeed without a Sunday paper, but it is very hard to win over Sunday readers...
...name of the law." Initially then, Gerolmo might have meant the FBI's terrorist tactics to be seen critically, or at least ambivalently. But he must have known that American movie audiences want the thrill without the filigree. He must also remember the famous advice from a newspaperman in Liberty Valance, which sums up the approach Mississippi Burning would take to Mississippi history: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend...
Unfortunately, Goulden fails to pull together his reporting and explain what made Rosenthal such a great newspaperman and what exactly Rosenthal's legacy is. The book is sloppily edited and riddled with factual errors and misspellings of the names of prominently by-lined Times reporters. At one point, Goulden refers to Rosenthal's semiweekly "On My Mind" column as "On My Head...