The Washington Times-Herald

… Graham approached successive presidents, including Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and engaged in various schemes behind the scenes in the political world, but from the 1950s he consolidated his management base by acquiring and operating several television and broadcasting stations. In March 1954, he bought rival newspaper The Washington Times-Herald, which was owned by McCormick, for $8.5 million, and in March 1961, he also acquired Newsweek magazine, growing it into a nationally prestigious newspaper. In terms of the layout of the paper, he focused on the news and entertainment aspects, increasing his readership among the middle class, while also upholding the tradition of liberal speech. In the 1950s, other papers scorned the paper as the Washington version of Pravda, and he continued to fiercely criticize McCarthy from a time when he was almost alone and alone, and played a major role in defeating the hysteria of the Red Scare. …

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…　グレアムはアイゼンハワー，ケネディ，ジョンソンと歴代大統領に接近，政界の裏でいろいろな策謀もしたが，50年代から，いくつかのテレビ局，放送局を買収兼営して経営基盤を固めた。すなわち，54年3月競争相手であったマコーミックの《ワシントン･タイムズ･ヘラルドThe Washington Times‐Herald》を850万ドルで買収，61年3月には《ニューズウィークNewsweek》誌も傘下に収めて，全国的に権威のある新聞に成長させた。紙面構成でもニュース，娯楽的側面に力を入れ，中産階級にも読者を伸ばす一方，リベラルな言論の伝統も守り，1950年代には他紙からは〈プラウダのワシントン版〉と悪口されるなど，ほとんど孤立無援の時期からマッカーシーに対する激烈な批判を続け，〈赤狩り〉ヒステリアの打倒に大きな役割を果たした。…

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