P.J Bednarski

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The Murdoch Touch

I worked for the Chicago Sun-Times when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought the paper in 1984, and so I have a feeling for the reporters at The Wall Street Journal who today are likely getting dozens of calls from long-lost acquaintances asking them how awful they feel. I felt like I was the car accident everybody could gawk at. Because Murdoch, particularly then, was... More

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Coverage of the Virgina Tech Shootings and NAB

The unfolding massacre at Virginia Tech University today in which a gunman killed at least 32 people happened while hundreds of the nation's news directors were in Las Vegas for the start of NAB Show and Radio/TV News Directors Association convention. Unfortunately it's not the first time tragedy has struck while television execs were at the NAB Show. On April 20, 1999, two teenaged... More