The Graham Family with Their "Washington Post" and "Newsweek" Magazine Begins to Target Massachusetts
Are They Getting Even with Pinch Sulzberger for His Nasty Removal of Them as Partners in the International Herald Tribune Based in Paris?
            Although the Graham family of Washington is supposed to be friends with the Sulzberger family, the nasty removal of them by Pinch as equal partners in the "International Herald Tribune" was obviously not well received by the Washington-based Graham family.
            Now that they see The New York Times Company floundering with Pinch as Chairman, this is the perfect time to get even.
            Both companies are in a race to expand into Europe and become the first "world-wide" newspaper. The Sulzbergers made a coup when Pinch unfairly ousted them from the Tribune.
            Of course it will not do residents of Massachusetts any good to have another huge company managing our news. What we need is the return of the small independent publisher we had before Fidelity Investments acquired every weekly newspaper in the Boston area in an attempt to make a lot of money. They failed in that effort and sold out to the Boston Herald.
            In spite of all that, we can and are returning to independent publishers as a result of the tremendous growth of the Internet. It will not be long before the huge presses printing newspapers and the trucks carrying them everywhere will be a relic of the past. Everyone will be getting their news from a high-speed printer connected to a computer in their home. The major question that no one has really solved is how the major publishers will turn this into a profitable business.
            But that problem is welcomed by the small, independent people who are already making the Internet a powerful tool to reach over the New York Times and Washington Post. The satellite radio phenomenon will now allow them to also have a radio station without huge towers and a large investment. There will be tremendous diversity both on the Net and on the radio.

            How Are the Grahams Targeting Massachusetts?
             The Graham family is just as liberal as the Sulzbergers. They have never presented both sides, as did Adolph Ochs, the founder of the modern Times in 1896. As the son of Jewish immigrants, Ochs truly loved America and the opportunities it had given him as his status and power expanded beyond his wildest dreams.
            But Ochs was totally shattered when his only child, Iphigene, who suffered from dyslexia, became a big liberal while attending Columbia University near their home. She was an easy target for any professor who wanted to attack the conservative Ochs. She married Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who was a suave, handsome ladies man. He took over the Times merely by marrying his way into the Ochs family. He never pretended to love Iphigene and had many mistresses over the years who were constantly present in the family's home, the most serious being Madeleine Carroll, a famous, beautiful English actress, who became a permanent fixture in the Sulzberger home.
           When Sulzberger took over in 1935 after the death of Ochs, he immediately stopped printing both sides of the stories. The Times ceased being a "newspaper of record" which printed both sides of everything. It was transformed overnight into a liberal newspaper printing the beliefs of Arthur Sulzberger, his son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (Punch) and his grandson, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (Pinch).       

Coming Tomorrow: How the Grahams Are Intruding into Massachusetts and Challenging the Sulzberger Monopoly