ab3@pucc-h (Darth Wombat) (01/11/84)
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch (sensationalist newpaper owner) officially took over the Chicago Sun-Times. Yesterday Mike Royko (man-in-the-street columnist) jumped to the Chicago Tribune. Gee, when Doonesbury comes back I'll be able to find them both in the same paper... -- "Go ahead...make my day." Darth Wombat { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk
hal@cornell.UUCP (Hal Perkins) (01/15/84)
How did Royko get out of his contract with the Sun-Times? I thought they had exclusive use of his services for another 4 years (although he can take a leave of absence if he wants). Or is this the start of a nice big court battle? Hal Perkins UUCP: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal Cornell Computer Science ARPA: hal@cornell BITNET: hal@crnlcs
ab3@pucc-h (Darth Wombat) (01/16/84)
Well, apparently Mr. Royko claims that his Newpaper Guild contract provisions override those in his contract with the Sun-Times, and that he is therefore free to jump to the Tribune. Not knowing the legal relationship of the Newspaper Guild and the Times & Tribune, I suppose it's difficult to figure out just what that means. In any event, one day last week the Tribune ran a new Royko column while the Times recycled an old one; and the lawyers all met in court. The preliminary ruling was in favor of Royko -- don't remember specifically what court this was in, but I seem to remember that it was a Cook County Circuit or the like... Can't blame the man for jumping ship, after seeing what Murdoch has done to papers elsewhere in the U.S....but I suspect that the Big Court Battle has just begun. -- "Go ahead...make my day." Darth Wombat { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk
dje@5941ux.UUCP (D.Ellis) (01/16/84)
Mike Royko's comment on the Sun-Times (now that Rupert Murdoch has taken it over): "No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in that kind of paper."
karn@allegra.UUCP (Phil Karn) (01/17/84)
Good for him! I hope the Sun-Times quickly goes out of business, but I can dream, can't I? How come people like Murdoch aren't eaten by cannibals after being run through a hamburger grinder and stored in a meat freezer by crazed satanic cultists who take pictures of Jackie O and spontaneously burst into flame after eating miracle diets and conducting occult rituals over Princess Grace's picture? It seems to happen to everybody else, at least according to Murdoch's newspapers. Phil