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No major American city has seen more such attempts since World War II; four completely separate groups produced seven different dailies under various corporate umbrellas. None of them published as long as three years on a daily basis, and some wound up in bankruptcy and litigation. Undercapitalization, financial mismanagement, and excessive dependence on unfamiliar technology were directly responsible for the failures. Some of these papers were founded by politicians with grievances against publisher Eugene Pulliam's established dailies, The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette, and the willingness of citizens to get involved in such ultimately futile efforts had its roots in the irresponsible things the Pulliam press did during periods of no competition, notwithstanding the claims of monopoly's defenders that the disappearance of competition tends to make newspapers more responsible. 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