[Momaw Nadon]

Is there any possibility that the New York Times could be bought out?

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Yes, Dow Jones should turn the tables and go after NYT - - so they can appoint a publisher who is not a moron. They might consider acquiring the LA Times while they're at it.

[Eala]

Give a deep sigh of relief. The Democrat house organ known as the New York Times has failed in its attempt to buy the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, whose op-ed section (though not its news pages) are one of the few conservative voices in Big Media.

Yikes!! I didn't know this was going on. If they'd succeeded, what would I read at lunch??

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It'd be the last WSJ I'd every buy.

[Steve_Seattle]

Of course, the New York Times always editorially opposes media mergers, saying that they reduce diversity. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't try to do it themselves.

[Revolting cat!]

Bad luck and now #13!

[Revolting cat!]

The interesting question is how much of the decision to go after the WSJ was politically inspired. The WSJ never misses an opportunity to take shots at the New York Pravda, and I suspect that can cost them (the NYT), at least in Noo Yoke!

[nutmeg]

read later

[Uncle Hal]

The NY Times trying to buy the WSJ is terrible. The WSJ is the closest thing we have in the USA to a big circulation conservative newspaper. Their editorials and columnist are generally conservative and are pro free market. I do not always agree with them, but compaired to the NY times and the other liberal rags they are a breath of fresh air.

[AZLiberty]

The plan was probably to appoint "journalist" Al Gore as WSH editor.

[AZLiberty]

[Oops, not WSH.]

The plan was probably to appoint "journalist" Al Gore as WSJ editor.