By Michael Miner “Here’s what it is,” says Phil Rosenthal, soon to be a former sportswriter. “You work on these beats and do this stuff and you’re surrounded by people clearly more passionate than you are about what they’re doing. I see a guy like Mariotti, who’s clearly just as passionate as all get-out about […]
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The Press: Uncovering the LaRouchies
Six years ago a man named Robert Ash Wallace, who had once been assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, ran for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. Wallace had impressive credentials and he waged as spirited a campaign as he could afford, one replete with that modern-day irrelevancy, position papers. But Wallace couldn’t afford very much; […]
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Murdoch’s Man in Chicago
Rupert Murdoch purchased the Chicago Sun-Times last November supposing there’d be someone to edit it when he took the paper over in January. And there wasn’t. Publisher Jim Hoge was expected to leave, but Murdoch believed editor Ralph Otwell would agree to stay on for several months. Otwell wouldn’t. Next Murdoch flew managing editor Gregory […]
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The Press: Abandoning Ship
Everyone at the Sun-Times has heard the story of Rupert Murdoch’s bags, and everyone, it seems, is eager to tell it. An enormous amount of anger and contempt is invested in this simple tale. A few days before Christmas, the publicity department was throwing a cocktail party on the seventh floor. Murdoch, the then owner-in-waiting, […]