Article: Sneaky, sneaky. (Rupert Murdoch and media cross-ownership)

RUPERT MURDOCH counts, among his journalistic holdings, two television stations, one in Boston and one in New York, and two newspapers-the Boston Herald and the New York Post-in the same cities. Since federal rules prevent common ownership of a TV station and a newspaper in the same market, Murdoch has been operating in Boston and New York under a waiver. In the year-end rush to cobble together a budget resolution, Senator Fritz Hollings slipped in an amendment directing the Feds to grant no waivers. It looked like a bill of attainder against Murdoch, and, indeed, Hollings admitted that Murdoch was the target and that the inspiration for the midnight amendment was one ...

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