The NYT owned by Trump? That’d be AWESOME!!
probably wouldn’t change much
Sounds like Maher is what we used to call an Indian giver in my childhood. I’m unsure what inoffensive term has replaced it.
Out of curiosity, I just checked it at Dictionary.com, but they don’t offer any alternative:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Indian+giver?s=t
Nothing will really change except the cover will be made of artificial fibers and it would refer to itself more.
Hah....it would be fun just watching the liberals heads literally explode...
Though if he did... I do not think it would change drastically....after all he would need to keep his liberal readers..Which are the vast majority of paying customers.
It would be a slight move to the center...
Aren’t we still waiting for some kind of BIG BIG BIGGER THAN BIG news about Obama this guy promised?
Wouldn't that just drive the leftist, anti-capitalism bunch wild?
Leni
Trump has demonstrated that he has no well-formed ideology -- just a conflicting set of shifting beliefs that, once in a while, sound vaguely conservative. Rather like Bill O'Reilly.
All that said, I'd looooove to see it happen.
If the times won’t sell, Trump should buy the newsprint suppliers in a 200 mile radius.
Do rich people have to have everything about ordinary life explained to them?
Do they add together or subtract from each other? Or multiply into something of gigantic proportions.
It's not going to happen but it would be a lot of fun if it did. It might make a good movie, but by the time it comes out, younger viewers will wonder just what newspapers were.
why on Earth would anyone buy a newspaper, and a controversial one at that....talk about a dead issue, might as well but a covered wagon factory. Your newspaper basically tells you everything that happened yesterday.. Other that a very local paper, so you know who died and who got married, and get to see a picture of your grandson playing football, “national” type papers are obsolete...
Might make a real estate play as part of an overall dismemberment. NYT had a small loss on continuing ops in its last reported quarter, on nearly half a billion $$ of revenue. But it is still sitting on substantial midtown Manhattan real estate holdings. In 2009 it sold most of its “condo” rights in its new building and leases back 21 floors with 750,000 sq ft on the cheap with rights to buy back the ownership for $250mm. It also still owns seven floors there with 216,000 rentable sq ft. according to last year’s 10-K. At a going price of about $750/sq ft for Class A office space in Midtown, that would make the NYT HQ building real estate alone worth roughly half a billion $$ net of the buyback. Sell off its newsprint and regional newspaper holdings, 31 acres on Long Island, the Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram, sports and other stuff and you might be able to offer a modest premium to the less than $1.3 billion NYT equity market value. You might even get the Gray Lady herself for just about free, and then could slash costs and make it profitable. I bet Trump has keyed in on family unrest. Somebody wants cash and wants out.
He might be able to get it for $1. Liberal heads will explode.